Future-Ready Teaching: Creativity, Confidence, and Community Care in a Changing Landscape 

Graduate educators are teaching in and through a world marked by rapid change, including new technologies, shifting student needs, evolving learning environments, and expanding possibilities of what teaching can be. This year's conference theme, Future-Ready Teaching, offers graduate students and postdoctoral scholars the time and space to explore how we can approach teaching with curiosity, flexibility, and a sense of shared purpose as we consider what practices we want to bring forward with us in this moment. 

This year's full day conference (online via Zoom with optional in-person watch party) is designed to celebrate the many ways graduate educators are already shaping the future of teaching through their curiosity, expertise, and commitment to their values. We welcome proposals that highlight practical strategies, creative experiments, and reflective insights that help us teach with confidence and care-whether in classrooms, labs, tutorials, community settings, or digital spaces. 

Afternoon Sessions Include: 

1:30PM to 2:30PM: Session 3 Invited Faculty Panel 

2:30PM to 2:40PM: Break

2:40PM-4:50PM: Session 4 Invited Grad Panel and Closing

At this conference, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars may earn up to a total of two (2) Future Prof credits for the Western Certificate in University Teaching and Learning. Credits will be given for the following work:  

1. Registration/Attendance to the morning sessions + completion of the Morning Future Prof Assignment = 1 credit 
2. Registration/ Attendance to the afternoon sessions + completion of the Afternoon Future Prof Assignment = 1 credit 

For full conference details, visit the CTL's Own Your Future: Conference on Teaching webpage. 

Please note: Registration closes by 11:15am on May 14th.