Writing about Teaching Workshop 1: Communicating the 'So What?'

Are you interested in writing about your teaching but don’t know where to start—or how to make the time? Would you like to take the next step in your scholarship around teaching in community with fellow instructors?

Join us for our Writing about Teaching Workshops this spring. Each 90-minute interactive session will provide guidance and structured time to advance your writing, followed by an additional optional 90-minute work time.

Attend one or all—whatever fits your schedule and goals! Whether you have data to share as part of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) or Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) project or would like to write a scholarly narrative around teaching, this is the place for you.

In this first session, participants will explore how to articulate the significance of their work—why it matters, what it contributes to the scholarly teaching community, and how it fits into broader conversations about teaching and learning. Through guided exploration and discussion along with structured writing time, participants will refine their own "So what?" statement, helping to frame their work for publications and/or presentations. Participants will leave with greater clarity on the impact of their work and a strong foundation for communicating its value.

Please note that if we don't have enough participants, we will cancel the session.

Check out our additional Writing about Teaching Workshops:

• Workshop 2: Identifying Journal Venues - Friday, March 28
• Workshop 3: AI-supported Literature Reviews - Friday, April 18
• Workshop 4: Structuring an Empirical Article - Friday April 25