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DecFall Meetups
Writing about Teaching
No programming. No pressure. Just working on our writing-about-teaching projects.
- December 1, 2025
- 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
- Various Locations
Past Workshops & Events
- 7NovWorkshop
Teaching in the Age of AI: How Students Can Do All Their Writing in the Classroom
Learn methods to enhance in-class writing and approaches to student writing that account for the availability of AI.
- November 7, 2025
- 2:00 PM–3:30 PM
- Gilmer 490
- 6NovWorkshop
Narrative Course Design: Aligning an Authentic Summative Assessment to Your "Why"
Reimagine your online course through the lens of narrative design and leave with a summative assessment that serves as a compelling climax to your course.
- November 6, 2025
- 3:00 PM–4:15 PM
- Zoom
- 6NovVirtual Lunch and Learn
Finishing Strong: Advice for Making It Through the End of a Semester
Get advice on and strategies for navigating the end of the semester.
- November 6, 2025
- 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Zoom
- 5NovLearning Series
Writing and Community Engagement with Indigenous History with Sarah Richardson
Learn about English professor Sarah Richardson's research and current work sharing the Monacan Nation’s culture with Virginia’s public schools.
- November 5, 2025
- 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Hybrid: Booker House, first floor conference room, & Zoom
- 17OctWorkshop
Reducing Teaching Overwhelm and Increasing Teaching Joy
Examine ways to reduce teaching overwhelm and get ideas for how to teach well, while still having time/energy/focus for the other important things in your life.
- October 17, 2025
- 2:00 PM–3:30 PM
- Ridley 137
- 17OctSeminar
Teaching Overwhelm: Why It Matters and What Can Be Done About It
Learn about teaching overwhelm, what contributes to it, why it matters, and how changes to teaching can improve instructor wellness.
- October 17, 2025
- 10:00 AM–11:15 AM
- Ridley G004
- 16OctWorkshop
Action Scenes: Making the Most of Synchronous Online Teaching
Explore strategies for engaging students in discussion and active learning in a synchronous online class session and leave with a new plan for an online class session.
- October 16, 2025
- 3:00 PM–4:15 PM
- Zoom
- 16OctWorkshop
Challenges and Opportunities: The Teaching Experiences of Graduate Students
Get strategies to support both your graduate school and future faculty teaching.
- October 16, 2025
- 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
- CTE Library
- 15OctWorkshop
Pedagogies of Interconnectedness – Craft in Communion with Local Materials
Learn more about an approach to design education centered on craft in communion with local materials and create a collective craft object and meditate on the connection to place afforded by this process.
- October 15, 2025
- 2:15 PM–3:15 PM
- Center for Teaching Excellence/Garden 6