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Teacher Training

Wadsworth offers multiple training options to best meet your needs, including workshops taught by a number of Wadsworth’s College Success authors. Workshops will help you discover new ways to build rapport, communicate expectations, and monitor your students’ academic performance. At the same time, you will have opportunities to work with your colleagues and to share ideas across institutions, helping you create dynamic, challenging, and supportive learning environment in your first-year College Success course.

We offer several varieties of workshops that focus on College Success, including regional workshops, On-site workshops, free online eSeminars, and text-specific workshops. More information on each type of workshop can be found below. If you have any questions or would like any more information, please e-mail Ilana Sims at ilana.sims@contractor.thomson.com.


College Success Institutes

Wadsworth Publishing is pleased to invite you to attend these one day workshops so that you can collaborate with colleagues and engage in interactive workshops with our facilitators. Click on the link below to download information on our upcoming institutes.

College Success Spring Institute - Texas
February 3, 2006
Houston, Texas

College Success Spring Institute - St. Louis
March 10, 2006
St. Louis, Missouri

College Success Spring Institute - Ft. Lauderdale
March 24-25, 2006
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

College Success Faculty Development - Boston
April 21, 2006
Boston, MA


On-site Workshops

Do you need a training workshop on your campus? We can now customize workshops to fit your campus needs. Choose from one of our workshop topics, and our facilitators will work with you to make sure that the workshop covers everything for your first-year course.

See your local Wadsworth sales representative for more details on our onsite workshops. Click here to find your local sales representative.


FREE eSeminar Series

Participate in FREE online workshops from the comfort of your own office or home. All events are facilitated by experts in various fields and are completely interactive. These workshops take place via online meeting manager and conference call.

Click here for detailed information on our College Success eSeminar Series.


Text-specific workshops

Wadsworth presents our authors and other experts who work closely with the authors and the textbooks. If you are currently adopting one of our textbooks, you may qualify to have one of these facilitators come to your campus.

For more information, please call one of our consultants at 800-400-7609.


If you have any questions or would like any more information on our workshops,
please call our College Success consultation line at 800-400-7609.