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Ignatian Pedagogy Community of Practice

9 to 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4, via Zoom (MA)

Please join us to discuss Ignatian Pedagogy: A Practical Approach, one of the foundational texts that established the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm and the Ignatian-guided approach to teaching and learning at Jesuit institutions. This is discussion is part of the Ignatian Pedagogy Community of Practice, but all interested persons are welcome and encouraged to attend. The text will be provided electronically to all who register.

Registration is required

Distance Learning Workshop Series: Focused Topics in Distance 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 Fall 2025 theme, Focused Topics in Distance Teaching, explores four key aspects of distance teaching, including creating interactive Panopto lecture videos, facilitating effective online groupwork, promoting RSI in synchronous formats, and supporting student wellbeing in distance courses. Each 60-minute workshop is conducted virtually via Zoom and counts as one-half (½) elective credit in the Online University Teaching Skills Certificate. This workshop series is targeted specifically to SLU faculty teaching in a distance format.

Nov. 14: Supporting Student Well-Being in Distance Courses (MA)

Our students have never been under more pressure. For students taking distance courses, the physical and temporal separations that come with the format can exacerbate that pressure with feelings of isolation, loneliness, and anxiety. This 60-minute workshop explores techniques and practices instructors can use to support student well-being in distance courses. Participants will gain strategies to build a caring, supportive learning community in which students thrive.

Registration is required

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, online course design, assessment of online courses, as well as 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

Jan. 27-Feb. 3: Assessing the Online Student*

Assessing the Online Student is a week-long asynchronous course that surveys strategies and practices for assessing student learners in online/distance formats. By the end of the course, participants will distinguish between different types of online assessments, consider practices for creating inclusive assessments, and explore strategies for providing online feedback to students. Participants are encouraged to think about course topics and strategies in an online/distance course of their choosing by drafting or re-drafting a course assessment plan. (O)

Feb. 10-24: Introduction to Distance Teaching**

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)

March 17-24: Rubric Construction: It’s a Process***

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)

March 17-31: Introduction to Distance Teaching

April 7-14: Dynamic Discussions*

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)

Registration is required

Conversation Series: Introduction to SLU's Teaching Effectiveness Framework

Co-facilitated by the Teaching Effectiveness Project Chairs and the Reinert Center

The purpose of this conversation series is to introduce the new, University-wide Teaching Effectiveness Framework. We will discuss the attributes and language of each area of the framework and establish a shared vocabulary to describe the teaching and learning concepts embedded within it. Participants will also identify ways in which their teaching already embodies the components of the framework.

Growth-Oriented Teaching
- 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12, via Zoom
- 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in room 222 of Wuller Hall

Registration is requested

Praxis Workshops

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)

Providing a Sense of Safety in the Classroom, Shannon Cooper-Sadlo
9 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30, in room 352/353 of BSC
Assessment Strategies to Support Learning, Mitch Lorenz
1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6, in room 010 of Pius Library

Registration is requested