Events

The Course in College Teaching (CCT) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and post-doc instructors from all disciplines to collaboratively explore successful teaching and learning. It is designed to allow participants to share ideas and strategies for successful teaching. This free, non-credit course includes discussion and practice based on information drawn from the teaching and learning literature, as well as from the teaching experiences of individual participants.

The Spring 2026 Course in College Teaching (CCT) will be held asynchronously in Canvas from February 2 - March 2. For more information, see schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/cct or contact one of the course facilitators Deena Levy at drl21@psu.edu or Mary Ann Tobin at matobin@psu.edu.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

In this free, non-credit, self-directed, and entirely asynchronous course, participants explore the rationale and research that supports designing learning experiences with UDL, read scenarios about UDL applications, and reflect on ways to apply UDL to their own instructional practices. This course is open to faculty of any rank or status, teaching assistants, and post-doctoral instructors and members of the learning design community.

Register anytime at the following link: https://psu.catalog.instructure.com/browse/wcfd/courses/ol-360001-universal-design-for-learning-2026 . You will have 90 days to complete the course.

This course is a collaboration between the Schreyer Institute and World Campus Online Faculty Development.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

In this session of the Talking about Teaching series, faculty and graduate student panelists will share lived experiences that illuminate the complexities of navigating graduate education across cultures. To strengthen our collective capacity to support international graduate students as integral members of our research and teaching community, we will identify concrete strategies to build classroom climates that honor diverse forms of knowledge, promote belonging, and sustain student well-being in rigorous academic settings. Please bring your questions about ways to support international students for our panelists! 

Registration will close 1 hour before the event starts. Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 45 minutes before the workshop begins.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

Paulo Freire challenged educators to move beyond the "banking" model of teaching, in which instructors "deposit" knowledge into passive students. Yet, despite our best intentions, we still find ourselves immersed in these practices. In this interactive workshop, we will reflect on our own educational experiences and co-create strategies to adopt Freire's dialogic pedagogy. Together, we will reimagine teaching as a collaborative, liberatory practice.

Registration will close 1 hour before the event starts. Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 45 minutes before the workshop begins.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

The 2026 Schreyer Conference will focus on alternative grading, or ways in which instructors are re-imagining their approach to grading.  These approaches go by many different names—ungrading, specifications (spec) grading, contract grading, standards-based grading, labor-based grading and more---but they share a common focus on changing how and why we grade our students.   

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

This short course is an introductory overview of ethical pedagogical practices that support student learning for all students. The course includes research-based lessons, workshops, interactive coffee hours, reflective journal activities, and opportunities for developing materials like lesson plans and teaching philosophy statements. The course is intended to support advanced graduate students and post-docs who seek to diversify and deepen their pedagogy and teaching materials. Upon successful completion of the course, participants earn a certificate of completion.

The course will take place over a 5-week period and is expected to entail about 25 hours of work (total). It involves:

a) Zoom workshops on Thursdays: March 26, April 2, 9, and 16 from 11:00–12:30pm EST
b) Coffee hour chats: Hybrid format; time/day are based on your availability. Location and Zoom link will be announced the first week of class.

Detailed information about the course can be found at: http://schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/cep
Space is limited. The application deadline is March 4, 2026.
To apply: https://tinyurl.com/site-cep

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

AI-aware Faculty Leaders is a group of colleagues in a SITE grant program who will meet in-person two times during the 2025-26 academic year to share resources, insights, and to identify additional needs to address current and future needs of the discipline.

This is a closed event customized for the requesting department. If you are interested in a Custom Workshop for your area, contact us at site@psu.edu.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

In this interactive webinar, you will gain access to a research toolkit (including an IRB) that has been developed especially for EDGE (virtual exchange) projects. Using this toolkit, you will be able to take the first steps towards designing and implementing a publishable/presentable teaching and learning scholarship project—starting as soon as this semester.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework of brain-based, research-backed teaching and learning strategies that proactively address learner variability to reduce learning barriers and create inclusive learning experiences. In this interactive, UDL-inspired workshop, participants will be introduced to the UDL framework and explore ways to apply it.

This is a closed event customized for the requesting department. If you are interested in a Custom Workshop for your area, contact us at site@psu.edu.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

So you’ve been asked to lead a course that's new to you—now what? This interactive workshop will focus on strategies for focusing course goals, syllabus content, and the schedule of activities and assessments. The workshop will be most useful for grad students and postdocs who are relatively new to teaching, but anyone who has an instructional role or is preparing for a future one is welcome.

Registration will close one hour before the workshop begins. Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 45 minutes before the event begins.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.

As part of the Curriculum Innovation and Renewal Program, project leaders, faculty consultants, and SITE consultants come together to support the leaders' work by sharing successes, processes, and challenges, as well as best practices, experiences and expertise in curriculum development and curriculum committee processes.

This is a closed event customized for the CIRP community members. If you are interested in a Custom Workshop for your area, contact us at site@psu.edu.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access.

In this webinar, participants will discover the types of student learning assessments and begin to consider how they might effectively measure learning in their courses.

Registration will close 1 hour before the event starts. Registrants will receive a Zoom link at least 1 hour before the event.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the access provided, please contact the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at SITE@psu.edu or call 814-863-2599 at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the program to allow sufficient time to effectively meet your access needs.