Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)

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?

 

Why take the ISW?

 

Spring 2026 Dates 

May 5 - 8, 2026 - Academic Staff (Facilitated by Susan Findlay & Greg Patenaude)

May 19 - 22, 2026 - Graduate Students/Post Docs (Facilitated by Diana Letts & Wayne Lippa)

August 17 - 20, 2026 - Academic Staff/Post Docs (Facilitated by Jenny Burke & Sheila McManus)

August 24 - 27, 2026 - Graduate Students/Post Docs (Facilitated by Olu Awosoga & Ken Vos)

Contact Wayne Lippa or Sheila McManus to sign up to participate in ISW 
 

Additional Resources

  • Instructional Skills Workshop Network -

  • The Instructional Skills Workshop as a Transformative Learning Process