Reinert Center Events
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Mentoring for Teaching Mini-Workshop Series
Noon to 12:30 p.m., Zoom
This three-part online series features concise, 30-minute sessions designed to strengthen mentoring practices for faculty. Each session incorporates a reflective approach to help mentors identify and apply evidence-based strategies that support graduate educators in developing effective, learner-centered instruction. The series is grounded in the University’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework, emphasizing learning-focused, mission-driven, and growth-oriented practices.
- Feb. 18: Mentoring Using Practical Pedagogical Considerations (GO)
- March 18: Mentoring With Foundational Learning Strategies (MA)
Teaching Talks for Graduate Student Instructors
Multiple dates, Wuller Hall 202 (GO)
Teaching Talks are monthly, one-hour, semi-structured meetings designed to help support the pedagogical development of graduate student instructors. Facilitated by Reinert Center staff and the Center’s Graduate Assistants, these group discussions provide a confidential, non-evaluative space for discussing teaching-related questions in a collaborative and collegial environment.
- 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10
- Noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, March 20
- Noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, April 24
Registration is encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome.
Registration link
Distance Learning Workshop Series: Technology for Teaching
Noon to 1 p.m. on select Fridays via Zoom
The Reinert Center’s Distance Learning Workshop Series offers an interactive space to explore, reflect on, and enact new ideas in distance teaching. Each semester features a themed series of workshops, where guest speakers present on key topics and participants are invited to apply new pedagogical ideas in their online teaching context.
Our spring 2026 theme, "Technology for Teaching," focuses on four University-supported instructional tools. Each 60-minute virtual (via Zoom) workshop is dedicated to one teaching tool focusing on how it can be harnessed intentionally to enhance student learning. Sessions include an overview of the tool, discussions on its pedagogical uses, and opportunities for participants to explore how it can fit into their own distance teaching practices.
First Through Fifth Friday Coffee Break
10 to 11 a.m., Wuller Hall 204 (GO)
On the first Friday of the month, we invite all faculty who are in their first five years of teaching at SLU to come talk about teaching. Join your colleagues who are also in their first five years for coffee and conversation about teaching at SLU. Drop by for the whole time, arrive late or leave early; bring a friend or make a friend while you are here.
Spring dates: Feb. 6, March 6, April 10 and May 1.
No registration necessary.
Courses in Online Teaching
The Reinert Center supports instructors for the full continuum of teaching online including: preparing to teach online for the first time, designing online courses, assessing one's own online courses, as well as implementing strategies and techniques for effective online teaching. Below is our current list of full, online course offerings. These courses can be used for credit in our Online University Teaching Skills Certificate or they may be taken by individuals not enrolled in the certificate. For a full list, and additional descriptions, of all our online courses, please visit the program page.
The Introduction to Distance Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online “student” and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University’s Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course. (F/P/O)
This course is a week-long asynchronous experience that will allow participants to intentionally apply a specific process for rubric construction for online courses. This course is open to any university instructor interested in constructing or revising an assignment rubric including but not limited to rubrics for online discussion. By the end of the course, participants will be able to distinguish the differences among analytical, holistic and single point rubrics; discern which rubric type would best suit the intention of their assignments; construct a rubric to apply to the assignment for which it was designed and assess their rubrics with the rubric for rubrics. (O)
The Introduction to Distance Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online “student” and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University’s Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course. (F/P/O)
This one-week, asynchronous course explores the role of online discussions for Distance Learning, and shares suggestions on designing effective asynchronous discussions that boost student engagement, build community, and meet the standards of SLU’s Online Course Design Rubric. The course will guide participants in drafting their own dynamic discussion for use in an online course and offer tips on facilitating student-led discussions. (O)
I Thought I Knew Everything About … Pedagogy Webinar Series
Select Wednesdays, 12:00 - 12:30 p.m., Zoom
In each episode of this webinar series, the facilitator will explore a foundational aspect of teaching in a way that enlivens it through deeper understanding, novel connections, or specific examples.
This webinar will discuss formative assessment as coursework that forms learning and learners, aligns with summative assessment, and connects students to deeper insights.
This webinar will uncover layers of critical reflection activities that develop students’ knowledge about and relationship with the significance of course content and skills.
Spring Praxis Workshops
Praxis Workshops are open to all SLU faculty and graduate students. Sessions are 90 minutes. Designed specifically with the objectives of the certificate program in mind, the Reinert Center's Praxis Workshops are interactive sessions during which an expert facilitator designs a learning experience around a particular pedagogical topic that creates the opportunity for participants to explore a new idea, or an established idea in a new way, and reflect on its implications for concrete interactions, approaches, and/or projects for their own specific teaching and learning situations (courses, labs, clinics, etc.) at the university level. (F/P)
- Feb. 18, 1:30 – 3 p.m., Pius 010
Introduction to the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm - Feb. 26, 1:30 to 3 p.m., Zoom
Using AI in Teaching 4D Model (anthropic) - March 18, 9 to 10:30 a.m., Pius 010
Collaborative Learning and Getting to Know Students - Thursday, April 9, 9 to 10:30 a.m., Zoom
Teaching Large Classes
Events Key
Certificate Program
- "F" earns Effective Teaching Credit for Foundations Certificate
- "P" earns Effective Teaching Credit for Principles Certificate
- "O" earns Effective Teaching Credit for Online Certificate
Teaching Effectiveness Framework
- "LF" designates Learning-Focused teaching
- "MA" designates Mission-Aligned teaching
- "GO" designates Growth-Oriented teaching