This four-part series introduces and develops the fundamental skills of effective teaching for graduate teaching assistants (TAs). Topics include communicating expectations, facilitating a class, grading, and teaching critical thinking skills.
Teaching Strategies
Description: In this workshop, participants will unpack what attention means in today’s classroom and explore ways to help students avoid…
Description: Supporting student mental health and wellbeing is always important, but it has become even more urgent in the wake…
Description: Join colleagues in discussing challenges, opportunities and strategies specific to teaching students in their first year of college. This…
Description: This workshop will introduce participants to the research on growth mindset and strategies for promoting it in the classroom. …
Description: While utilizing active learning techniques has been demonstrated to improve students’ understanding and retention of material, determining how to…
Description: In this workshop, you will explore a nuanced description of interactive, constructive, active, and passive learning strategies (the “ICAP…
This workshop looks at inclusive strategies for facilitating student interaction and designing effective teams. Participants have the opportunity to consider assessment criteria for evaluating student groups, strategies for inviting students to co-create team contracts, and the benefits of assigning student roles within group projects.
Description: Have you ever thought about how your class could change a student’s brain? In this interactive workshop, you will…
Examines approaches to increasing student participation and enhancing student engagement with course material. In particular, this workshop models Write-Pair-Share and the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) as potential activities for building a classroom environment that creates a learning space for meaningful interactions and keeps students actively engaged in the course.