Workshops & Programs

There are a wide variety of workshops and programs from across the university to help you to sustain and improve your teaching practice.

Groups that offer workshops

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For everyone at Stanford

Center for Teaching and Learning

The Center for Teaching and Learning offers a wide-variety of programming, including:

Course Design Institute (CDI)
Capstone Experience Design (CapED)
IDEAL Pedagogy
CIRTL@ Stanford teaching certificate program
Teaching Advancement Grants
Graduate Teaching Consultants

CTL events and workshops

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For everyone at Stanford

TEACH events

The Teaching Commons partners collaboratively present the TEACH series of professional development events.

TEACH Conference
TEACH Symposium (multi-day series of online workshops)
Course Clinics (drop-in consultation hours)
TEACH Media Library

TEACH events

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For students

Student Learning events

The Student Learning Programs group offers workshops, study halls, and academic studios, with different offerings for graduate, undergraduate, PhD students, and so on. Postdocs, staff, faculty, and lecturers may also attend most programs.

Student learning events

Knight Management Center, Stanford Graduate School of Business, opening day.

For Graduate School of Business

GSB Teaching and Learning Hub

The GSB's TLHub supports instructors in the GSB in delivering world-class educational experiences. The TLHub offers workshops (GSB only) and recordings of past events (available to everyone).

TL Hub events

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For graduate students and postdocs

Vice-Provost for Graduate Education

Programs include:

Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Funds (DIF)
Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement (RAISE)
Preparing Future Professors
Grad Grow

Graduate Education events

For everyone at Stanford

Canvas Support

The Canvas support team offers events and workshops about Canvas designed specifically for those in instructional roles.

Canvas events

Jennifer Schwartz Poehlmann, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Introductory Course Coordinator, left, welcomes Leland Scholars to their first Chemistry Lab at Stanford.

For Stanford Medicine

Office of Faculty Development and Diversity

OFDD provides seminars to departments and groups across Stanford Medicine upon request. Past workshops have covered topics such as:

Conflict Resolution
Delegation Strategies
Delivering Dynamic Presentations
Effective Virtual Presentations
Negotiation Skills
Overcoming Unintended Bias and Other Cognitive Errors

OFDD Workshops

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For Stanford Medicine

Educational Technology

EdTech is Stanford Medicine's in-house education, innovation, and production studio. EdTech regularly holds workshops for staff and faculty, some of which are eligible for continuing medical education (CME) credits.

EdTech workshops