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.
Workshops We Can Offer
A list of workshops we can offer with links to resources and handouts where available. An academic unit may request these sessions or custom workshops.
The workshops listed may occasionally appear as part of our workshop series found in the Events section.
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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: In this series, we’ll explore a variety of strategies to make our teaching more inclusive. This workshop will focus…
Description: Join colleagues in discussing challenges, opportunities and strategies specific to teaching students in their first year of college. This…
Explores the landscape of Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) while sharing learning research support services and resources such as survey/rubric design, video observations, consent forms, and umbrella IRB. A recording of the workshop is also available.
Description: This workshop will introduce participants to the research on growth mindset and strategies for promoting it in the classroom. …
How can we create relevant and accessible learning experiences that support success for all students? In this workshop, we discuss some of the basic principles of, and best practices for, inclusive teaching. Methods for equitable assessment and grading are among the topics covered.
Description: In this session, participants will be asked to bring a syllabus they wish to “decolonize” in a workshop setting.…
Description: While utilizing active learning techniques has been demonstrated to improve students’ understanding and retention of material, determining how to…