Instructional Skills Workshop

Instructional Skills Workshop

The ISW is a fun, intensive, interactive, four-day/28 hour workshop for new and experienced teachers. The workshop is peer-facilitated and peer-driven, designed to help you:

  • identify and build on your existing strengths as a teacher
  • develop new skills and techniques for student-focused and active-learning pedagogy
  • create an interdisciplinary cohort of peers who are as passionate about teaching as you are

The ISW was developed more than 30 years ago by post-secondary instructors in British Columbia and it is now an internationally-recognized professional development program. 

What is the ISW?

What is the ISW?


Why take the ISW?

Why take the ISW?



Contact Sheila McManus or Wayne Lippa to find out when you can participate in the next ISW. 

2024 ISW Offerings:

  • April 29 - May 3 (in-person) - For Faculty/Instructors, Facilitated by Romany Craig (Library) and Greg Patenaude (Chem)
  • August 12 -15 (in-person) - For Faculty/Instructors, Facilitated by Jeff Meadows (Teaching Centre)  and Susan Findlay (Chem)
  • August 19 - 22  (in-person) - For Graduate Students/Post-Docs, Facilitated by Wayne Lippa (Chem) and Ken Vos (Physics)
  • August 26 - 29 (in-person) - For Graduate Students/Post-Docs, Facilitated by Sheila McManus (History) and Jenny Burke (Biology)

Download this PDF to learn about the ISW from those who have experienced it.