Teaching is a complex, rewarding and dynamic craft.
CTLM believes that we all have the ability to excel in our craft of teaching – especially with a little guidance and practice. Our programs can help you learn and apply new evidence-based techniques, tackle challenges, and connect with peers in a supportive environment.
Preparing to teach
Ready, Set, Teach!
Start the semester confidently by preparing in this 1-day workshop, offered just before the start of each semester. Returning August 27
Teaching & Learning Welcome
For new academic staff instructors, this fall event highlights campus resources and networking opportunities. Returning in August 2025
Exploring teaching topics
Enhancing Online Education
A series of webinars and micro-courses to help instructors apply online and hybrid course design and teaching best practices. Register now
Teaching at UW
A series of hands-on workshops designed to help you explore and apply evidence-based practices to course design and teaching. Register now
Exploring AI in Teaching
A new series of programs designed to support instructors in learning about the opportunities and challenges of incorporating generative AI in teaching. Register now
UW–Madison Teaching & Learning Symposium
This event highlights innovative approaches through engaging discussions and poster sessions. Returning May 15, 2025
Diving deeper
Course Design Institute
An immersive 3-day program in course (re)design with an emphasis on active learning and inclusive teaching.
CTLM Teaching Fellows
A one-semester program for academic staff to explore, refine, and reflect on teaching.
Madison Teaching & Learning Excellence
A two-semester fellowship for early career, tenure-track faculty providing personalized teaching support.
Customized learning
CTLM can create a workshop, department meeting discussion, or other form of engagement for your unit at no cost. We can generally create a customized version of any topic we offer in our campus-wide workshop series:
If you don’t see the topic you are looking for, please ask!
Success Story
Fostering shared learning for a growing department
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is welcoming a number of new faculty and saw an opportunity to engage in shared learning related to equity, diversity and inclusion. Prof. Dave Rothamer, who chairs the department’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee, worked with CTLM in collaboration with the Center for Engineering Education and Teaching Effectiveness to plan a workshop on inclusive teaching at a department retreat.
“Doing the training as a department ensures that all faculty have experience in the same area and share a common language for future discussions,” Rothamer says. “It also served as a community-building exercise, particularly when done as part of an all-day retreat.”
Facilitators Julie Hunt Johnson and Lisa Jong worked with faculty to explore a framework for teaching inclusively, including understanding social identities, using active learning methods and adopting an access mindset to course content and assessments.
Feedback from participants “far exceeded expectations,” Rothamer says. Even faculty who recently had participated in similar training reported gaining additional insights and ideas.
The workshop prepared the department to begin taking additional steps to build inclusive teaching practices, including planning regular check-ins during faculty meetings and exploring opportunities via active learning classrooms and tools such as Top Hat.
A faculty-wide event like this “signals that the department values DEI efforts and that these efforts are the responsibility of everyone,” Rothamer says.
Interested in customized learning for your department or unit? Contact us