Workshops
Our Faculty Success Workshops are offered each semester across a wide range of topics relevant to teaching, scholarship, service, wellness, career development, and more. This series includes interactive workshops and sometimes panel discussions or and presentations addressing everything from evidence-based pedagogy to new technologies to maximize learning to writing statements/narratives for promotion materials. We thank our VCU partners and collaborators, including many individual faculty, for your generosity in hosting and facilitation workshops.
Please note that all events are subject to change. Be sure to use the registration link to register to be notified of any last minute or unavoidable scheduling changes.
Spring 2021 virtual workshops
You can see our spring offerings listed by theme here.
Note: Select a header below for more information about that month's workshops. Click the workshop link to get more information and to register.
Thursday, 1/7: Overview of a Trauma Informed Campus and Classroom
Thursday, 1/14: Structuring your class to create inclusion, community and connection: Lessons learned through online teaching (click to view recording)
Monday, 2/1: Introduction to Kaltura (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 2/2: Creating an Inclusive and Accessible Virtual Classroom (click to view recording)
Friday, 2/5: What Makes Teaching Inclusive to Student Learning? (click to view recording)
Monday, 2/8: Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Teaching Narrative (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 2/9: TakeBreakMake Zoom! (click to view recording)
Wednesday, 2/10: Humanize Your Online Course with VoiceThread (click to view recording)
Friday, 2/12: Navigating Promotion and Tenure as a Community-Engaged Scholar (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 2/16: Be Yourself!: The Importance of Social Presence in Online/Remote Teaching (click to view recording)
Wednesday, 2/17: Writing Productivity Strategies & Planning Workshop (click to view recording)
Monday, 2/22: Walk the Talk: Design (and Teach) an Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Course (click to view recording)
Wednesday, 2/24: Fearless Writing: Strategies for Building Confidence (click to view recording)
Thursday, 2/25: Panel Discussion: How can I do that? Getting Involved With the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (click to view recording)
Monday, 3/1: Tips for Faculty to Support Career Readiness in Students
Tuesday, 3/2: Embracing the Writing Feedback Process
Thursday, 3/4: Exploring Kaltura Advanced Features
Friday, 3/5: SOTL 101: What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? (rescheduled from 2/18)
Monday, 3/8: Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Service Narrative
Tuesday, 3/9: TakeBreakMake Google Suite!
Friday, 3/12: Critical Reflection Strategies for Experiential Learning
Monday, 3/15: Why and How ePortfolios Work
Tuesday, 3/16: SOTL102: Focused Questions and Study Design for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Wednesday, 3/17: Inclusion (and “diversity”) vs. anti-racist pedagogy: Not Another “Diversity” Talk
Thursday, 3/18: Beyond Tolerance: Strengthening White Allyship in Education
Monday, 3/22: Personalize Your Inclusive Teaching Statement and Humanize Your Syllabus
Tuesday, 3/23: Improv for Wellness and Joy
Monday, 3/29: Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Social Justice
Tuesday, 3/30: TakeBreakMake Canvas!
Wednesday, 3/31: Making Invisible Work Visible in Academia
Thursday, 4/1: Faculty First Responders: Supporting Student Wellness
Monday, 4/5: Racial Microaggressions and Classroom Climate
Tuesday, 4/6: Writing Your COVID Professional Impact Statement- guest speakers from University of Massachusetts at Amherst (registration will open in March)
co-sponsored by VCU ADVANCE-IT and the Office of the Vice President of Research and Innovation
Wednesday, 4/7: External Reviewers for Promotion: How to Cultivate Your List
Thursday, 4/8: How to make the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Count for Your Tenure and Promotion
Friday, 4/9: TILT: Creating Equitable Learning Opportunities Through Transparent Assignment Design (Register by 3/15)
Monday, 4/12: Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Scholarship Narrative
Tuesday, 4/13: TakeBreakMake VoiceThread!
Thursday, 4/15: Build Your Village: Finding Social Support for Your Writing
Monday, 4/19: Student Engagement and Full Participation for an Inclusive Classroom
Thursday, 4/22: Canvas Gradebook Basics
Monday, 4/26: Developing an Anti-racist Worldview for Transformative Pedagogy
Fall 2020 virtual workshops
Note: Select a header below for more information about that month's workshops. Click the workshop link to view session recording.
Thursday, 9/10: Inclusivity and Students from the Gulf (click to view recording)
Friday, 9/11: Introduction to Perusall as a Way to Encourage Student Interaction and Collaboration (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 9/15: Introducing the Honor System and Standards of Academic Conduct (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 9/22: Make online learning RIF: Relevant, Interesting, Fun (click to view recording)
Friday, 9/25: Designing Equitable Multimedia Projects For Remote Instruction (click to view recording)
Friday, 9/25: Developing your Roadmap to Promotion
Monday, 9/28: Introduction to Kaltura (click to view recording)
Monday, 9/28: Mid-Career Term Faculty - Let's Talk Promotion (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 9/29: Developing Allies in the Academy: Identity, Belonging Action
Thursday, 10/1: Decolonize your classroom: A case study for inclusive teaching (click to view recording)
Wednesday, 10/7: Engaging Students Intellectually, Socially, Emotionally: Pear Deck and Safe Learning Opportunities (click to view recording)
Monday, 10/12: Inclusive teaching practices to build a learning community and a sense of belonging (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 10/13: Neuromyths: What are they and why do they matter? (click to view recording)
Tuesday, 10/20: Glocal & Virtual Global Opportunities for Faculty (click to view recording)
Thursday, 10/22: Invisible and Emotional Labor in the Academy
Tuesday, 10/27: Stop it- You’re not actually an imposter (click to view recording)
Friday, 10/30: Conflicts are boiling over: Can we lower the temperature? (click to view recording)
Friday, 10/30: Promotion to Full Professor: Making The Case for National Prominence (click to view recording)
Thursday, 11/5: Community, Engagement, and Feedback in Online Learning Environments (click to view recording)
Monday, 11/9: Best Practices for Supporting Students with Diverse Language Backgrounds (click to view recording)
Thursday, 11/12: Supporting International Student Success (click to view recording)
Monday, 11/16: Term Faculty Panel of Full Professors: Experiences Navigating Promotion to Full (click to view recording)
Monday, 11/30: Blackboard Grade Center Basics (click to view recording)
Thursday, 12/3: Canvas Gradebook Basics (click to view recording)