Events, Workshops, and Communities
WMU Teaching and Learning hosts a variety of events and communities throughout the academic year. These opportunities are geared toward instructors, graduate assistants, and any others involved in creating learning experiences at Western Michigan University. Can't make it to an event? No problem! Check out our past event archive, which includes materials shared during the session and/or a session recording.
Do you not see what you are looking for here, or would you like a training or event more specific to your needs?
Our team is available to come to a department or group meeting to facilitate specific or targeted teaching and learning training. Reach out and let us know what challenges you are hoping to solve for instructors, learners, or both and we can support you by connecting you with resources and facilitating conversations around curriculum, course design, or instructional best practices. These can be single meetings or extended workshops depending on your goals.
Contact the Teaching and Learning Team to discuss your needs.
Upcoming Events and Opportunities
Sept 22
Ongoing
Office of Faculty Development
Early Career Faculty Seminar
Dates: October 6, November 3, December 8 Time: 1-2:30 p.m. Location: In-Person
Sept 26
12pm
Office of Faculty Development
AI in the Classroom: Promoting Learning While Preserving Integrity
Date: September 26 Time: 12-1:15 p.m. Location: Virtual
Oct 9
2 p.m.
NCFDD
Core Curriculum Workshops: SKILL #9: How to Engage in Healthy Conflict
Date: Thursday, October 9 Time: 2 p.m. Location: Online
Academics are notoriously conflict avoidant and the inability to manage conflict can result in negative physical, emotional, and relational consequences for tenure-track faculty. So why not learn early in your career to master the SKILL of healthy conflict so that you can effectively manage conflicts as they arise and avoid carrying around all of the negative energy, anger, and resentment in your mind and body. In this webinar, you will learn how conflict-management is an essential part of thriving in the Academy, how to decide when to push back and when to pull back in the face of conflict, and more.
NCFDD virtual workshops are available through WMU’s institutional memberships. Activate your WMU NCFDD membership to access.
Oct 30
2 p.m.
NCFDD
Building Strong Peer Communities: A Resource for Leadership and Advancement
Date: Thursday, October 30 Time: 2 p.m. Location: Online
This interactive webinar will introduce a resource to build and sustain teams of peer support. Peer mentoring strengthens individual and institutional abilities to meet evolving challenges through enhanced personal and professional support leading to improved campus climate. A guidebook will be shared that provides impactful approaches to build community to combat isolation and tools to create systemic change.
NCFDD virtual workshops are available through WMU’s institutional memberships. Activate your WMU NCFDD membership to access.
Nov 13
2 p.m.
NCFDD
Core Curriculum Workshops: SKILL #10: How to Manage Stress, Rejection & the Haters in Your Midst
Date: Thursday, November 13 Time: 2 p.m. Location: Online
Are you stressed? Do you feel devastated when your articles and/or grant proposals get rejected? Is the pressure of publishing/funding your work making you sick? If any of this sounds familiar and you have difficulty managing the negative energy and rejection in your environment, please join us to learn the impact that stress and negativity can have if they are not managed, identify the most common areas of stress in academic life, and concrete strategies for managing the physical, emotional, and attitudinal effects of stress.
NCFDD virtual workshops are available through WMU’s institutional memberships. Activate your WMU NCFDD membership to access.