 The graduate ISW is a 24-hour workshop for graduate students with the target of developing instructional skills. I think it goes beyond teaching. It helps you to think about the questions you should ask in order to get a level of understanding of the students. In the morning it's a very large group experience where the participants get to actually pick what sort of topics they're most interested in and the facilitators can therefore tailor it to them. They ask us what we wanted to learn. Yeah, for me that was really valuable. I think a large success of the ISW is the sort of peer-based aspect of it and that really shines through in the afternoon. You'll meet people who are teaching at your level, but across campus. Participants are required to teach a 10-minute mini lesson where they can try new things and take risks. I had the chance to present something outside my field of study. That was very encouraging to me. What is really important too is having the fellow participants provide feedback. What specifically you did as an instructor that added to this and what you could continue to do or what you could add. You get that experience, you get that feedback from that different group of participants and that's something that I think is extremely valuable. We need to practice how to teach and to be open to change our teaching practices too. I got a chance to experiment and learn new things. I can then apply in my teaching. So definitely I would advise anyone to just take this. Definitely more than regrets. I thought it was a really great workshop where people get the chance to actually teach as opposed to just getting the theory side of things. I feel much better prepared now. I really feel that it will impact my teaching.