Own Your Future: Conference on Teaching

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. 

Up to two Future Prof credits are available for participating in this conference. The Own Your Future Graduate Conference on Teaching is offered by the Centre for Teaching and Learning in Collaboration with the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. For questions about conference proposal submission, please reach out to Mandy Penney at ageorg8@uwo.ca. 

2026 Synchronous Conference Schedule

9:00AM to 10:50AM: Opening Remarks and Session 1 Teaching Lighting Workshops

10:50AM-11:05AM: Break

11:05AM-12:45PM: Session 2 Grad Innovations in Teaching and Learning

12:45PM-1:30PM: Break

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