Past CIRTL Workshops
Explore past workshop topics and descriptions for online events that Cornell community members and alumni have access to through the CIRTL Network. We have grouped these past events by overall themes. Recent dates they have been offered are listed for informational purposes. Links take you to a description of the workshop on the CIRTL Network website.
Understanding and Navigating the Academic Job Search
The Academic Job Search
Learn how to navigate the academic job market and uncover a wide range of tools and resources available to academics on the job hunt in this two-part online workshop.
- Fall 2018
LinkedIn for Academics
- Fall 2021
Preparing Your Teaching Demo for a Job Interview
Get an introduction to how you can prepare for a teaching demonstration – questions to anticipate, and strategies to navigate what you can’t anticipate – in this one-session workshop.
- Spring 2024, Summer 2023
Preparing Application Materials
Developing a CV or Resume
Draft and refine your own resume and CV in this two-part online workshop.
- Summer 2018, 2017
Writing an Effective Teaching Philosophy Statement
Draft a peer-reviewed teaching philosophy statement that reflects your teaching beliefs and experiences in this interactive two-part online workshop. Participants will be expected to draft (or revise an existing draft of) a teaching philosophy statement, and provide feedback on a peer’s draft in between sessions. Enrollment limit: 40 participants
- Fall 2022, Spring 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018; Fall 2017, 2016
Writing a Diversity Statement
Learn strategies for highlighting initiatives you have led or participated in that focus on underrepresented students, working towards equity, and/or enhancing diversity, in this two-part workshop.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2019
Writing an Effective Graduate Research Fellowship Program Proposal
Get a guided introduction to the application process for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program in this unique 3-part workshop that blends recorded lectures with a synchronous online session to bring participants together from all across the country.
- Fall 2018
Getting the Job: How to Frame and Sell Your Teaching as Research Experience in Your Job Search
Practice specific ways you can turn your Teaching as Research (TAR) project into an asset in the job hunt in this two-part online workshop designed for students who have completed a TAR project.
- Fall 2018
Planning and Managing Your Work
I Completed My Individual Development Plan… Now What?
Practice navigating the challenging conversations you might have with a mentor or advisor when pursuing your individual development plan.
- April 2019
Creating and Owning Your Individual Development Plan
Craft a robust IDP draft and action plan by learning the components of successful, sustainable plans in this two-part online workshop.
- October 2018, November 2017
Developing Work-Life Resilience
Incorporate work-life balance into your professional development with concrete tips.
- November 2016
Disrupting Bullying in Graduate School: Strategies and Interventions
- Summer 2022
Finding Your Teaching Mentor
- Fall 2022
Developing Leadership Skills
Understanding Levers of Change in Academia
- Fall 2021
Exploring Diversity in Implicit Leadership Theories and Their Role in Inclusive Teaching and Learning
Learn about implicit leadership theories (ILT) in this two-part workshop designed to help grad students and postdocs understand your own perceptions of leadership, and how those perceptions impact how you teach, how you work within departments, how you mentor, and more.
- Summer 2021
Building Advising and Mentorship Strategies
Developing Equity-Minded Mentors among Faculty and Researchers
Explore and discuss what mentoring is, and review and apply several tools that enable an individual to employ an equity-minded approach to mentoring.
- Spring 2020
Faculty Advising in a Community College Setting
Learn how to advise effectively, and explore the different advising roles faculty play depending on institutional type.
- Spring 2019
Creating Effective Learning Communities
Understand what makes for a successful learning community and develop strategies you can apply to your own communities in this two-part online workshop.
- Fall 2018
Managing Difficult Conversations Through the Lens of Social Identity
Learn various strategies to foster inclusive teaching and research environments.
- Spring 2017
Teaching Inclusively
Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator
Discuss possible solutions to the challenges of bringing anti-racist teaching into a STEM community and classroom in this three-session online workshop. The first session will emphasize the importance of self-reflection and identity. In the second session, participants will discuss and practice ways to address bias and interrupt microaggressions that may occur, as well as ways to implement anti-racist teaching. The final session will focus on the challenges of leading online workshops on these topics. Enrollment limit: 20 participants
- Spring 2021
Bring an Inclusive Mindset to Your Teaching
Learn about inclusive teaching approaches that build upon inclusive design frameworks, case studies, and educational research in this one-session workshop. Cap: 40.
- Fall 2021, 2020, 2017
CARE for Inclusion and Equity in Learning Environments
Learn evidence-based strategies for promoting inclusion and equity in both in-person and online/remote learning in this one-session workshop. Cap: None.
- Summer 2022
Considering the Whole Self in Teaching and Learning: Mental and Physical Wellbeing in the Classroom
It is no secret that stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges are prevalent in higher education. In this two-part workshop, participants will explore the relationships between mental and emotional health, the human body, and learning. Learn how to create learning objectives and design assessments that consider and support the whole student. Enrollment limit: 40 participants
- Spring 2021
Ethical Dilemmas in Inclusive Teaching: Difficult Dynamics in the Lab
- Fall 2022
Getting Started with Universal Design for Learning
Explore the basic principles of Universal Design for Learning and apply them to resources or practices you use in your own teaching in this two-part workshop.
- Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Supporting Neurodivergent Students
Learn about common forms of neurodiversity, the obstacles that neurodiverse students might encounter in academia, and teaching strategies to overcome those obstacles in this two-part workshop.
- Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Teaching Citational Practice: A Critical Feminist Approach
- Fall 2021
Trauma-Responsive Teaching
Learn general principles and practices associated with trauma-responsive teaching in this one-session workshop. Participants will learn what trauma-responsive teaching is, understand how trauma affects learning and classroom behavior, and explore teaching techniques that you can bring back to your own classrooms. Unlimited enrollment.
- Spring 2021
Universal Design for Learning: Reaching and Teaching Diverse Learners
Learn how Universal Design can strengthen your instruction for all students.
- November 2016
Where to begin? Developing an Action Plan for Aligned and Inclusive Lessons
Discuss the foundation to strong lesson planning with an emphasis on inclusivity and alignment in this one-session workshop. Cap: 50.
Using Evidence-Based Teaching Approaches
Teaching with Transparency: Evidence-Based Approaches to Foster Student Motivation and Engagement
Learn how adding transparency into your teaching can strengthen active learning, assignments, and assessment in this one-part workshop.
- Fall 2023
From Student to Expert: Breaking Down Disciplinary Tasks in the Classroom
Why are certain tasks harder to teach than others? What makes these tasks easy for us as experts while stumping our students? By applying methods from David Pace’s Decoding the Disciplines, we will work together to break down (or “decode”) such tasks and learn how to model them for our students. Enrollment limit: 20 participants
- Spring 2021
Reducing Math Anxiety Among Your Students
Gain a better understanding of the psychological and cognitive basis for math anxiety, and learn instructional strategies to minimize math anxiety for your students in this one-session workshop. Cap: 40.
- Fall 2020
How People Learn
Study the seminal work on the process of learning, “How People Learn,” as well as the follow-up book, “How People Learn II,” through this six-week, online, synchronous series.
- Summer 2019
Understanding and Implementing Metacognition in the Classroom
Dive into “metacognition” – or thinking about one’s own thinking – and how it impacts your students’ learning in this two-part online workshop facilitated by doctoral students from Columbia University.
- Fall 2018
How to Break Through Students’ Misconceptions of Science
Explore ways to counteract common misconceptions among STEM learners.
- Spring 2017
The Unique Challenges of Engaging and Teaching First-Year Students
Learn approaches you can use as a TA or instructor to improve your teaching in first-year classes.
- Spring 2017
Exploring Pedagogical Strategies
Integrating Effective Teaching and Assessment Practices in Biology Lab Courses through Case Studies
Prepare lesson plans for biology labs that pull from case studies and promote active learning in this three-part workshop.
- Spring 2019
Five Things To Do on the First and Last Day of Class
- Fall 2017
Integrating Civic Learning into the STEM Classroom
Civic learning intentionally prepares students for informed and engaged participation in their communities. Learn how to develop civic learning assignments and learning goals in this workshop.
- Fall 2017
Introduction to STEM Project Based Learning
In project-based learning, students investigate relevant, complex scientific situations to learn new concepts. Learn how to design project-based learning activities in this workshop.
- Fall 2017
Preparing to Teach in the American System (for International Teaching Assistants and Scholars)
Getting Ready to Teach in the American Classroom: Building Rapport and Effective Communication Skills
Develop and practice your own strategies for effective communication with students in this case-study-based online workshop.
- Spring 2019, 2018; Fall 2018
Getting Ready to Teach in the American Classroom: Cross-Cultural Analysis
Learn how to work with undergraduate students in this workshop designed for international teaching assistants.
- Spring 2018
Using Instructional Technologies
Creating Accessible Teaching and Research Documents in STEM
Understand why document accessibility matters and explore the LaTeX software for mathematical equations in this two-part workshop that combines accessibility fundamentals with technical training and is presented by Cornell University teaching fellows.
- Fall 2023
Teaching with Technology
Become familiar with a variety of digital tools designed to enhance student learning in this one-part online workshop.
- Spring 2019
Leveraging Open Source Principles and Resources for Teaching and Learning in STEM
Learn the advantages and disadvantages of open source educational materials and sample two platforms with hands-on activities.
- Fall 2017
Level Up: Designing a Game-Based Learning Environment
- Summer 2017
Creating Video Snip Modules for Active Teaching and Learning
Develop basic skills for editing videos down to easily digestible clips for class lectures.
- Spring 2017
Communicating Effectively
Science Communication for Any Audience
Explore key concepts and strategies in written and oral science communication in this three-part workshop.
- Spring 2019
Researching Your Teaching
Finding and Evaluating Educational Literature
Learn how to find and critically evaluate literature for educational research.
- Fall 2017
Qualitative Research Primer: Using Narrative Data in Your Teaching as Research Project
Get an introduction to analyzing narrative data (intended especially for students pursuing a TAR project).
- Fall 2017
Using Teaching as Research to Advance Equitable Educational Experiences
A two-part workshop that invites participants to consider how they might use CIRTL’s “Teaching as Research” framework to advance equitable educational experiences.
- Summer 2023