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Research Mentor Training Learning Communities (Summer 2023)
Explore strategies to become a more effective, culturally responsive mentor, and discuss mentoring challenges as they arise. Multiple sections available on different dates, for both STEMM and Social Sciences. Δ
Teaching in the Arts and Humanities: The College Classroom
Develop foundational knowledge of evidence-based pedagogical practices and assessment approaches in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences classrooms. Wednesdays, 1:20-3:15pm, starting January 25. ΔΔ
Laying the Foundations for a Successful Teaching Career
This five-session short course explores and builds a foundation of skills and habits to develop teaching approaches that will support a successful teaching career. Development of these skills can start as early as graduate school. Includes developing or refining some aspects of your teaching portfolio. Wednesdays 1:00- 2:30PM, starting January 25. ∆
Inclusive STEM Teaching Project: Local UW–Madison Learning Community
Develop your inclusive teaching practice by joining this 6-week local learning community. By viewing online modules and joining weekly discussions with colleagues, participants will learn practices to cultivate inclusive learning environments for all their students. Thursdays, 9:30am – 11:00pm starting October 13. ∆
Build an Inclusive Canvas Dream Course
Teach better and more efficiently using inclusive instructional technology. Building on your existing skills, you will hone your teaching style and gain a solid foundation in the learning sciences, while creating an effective Canvas course that is inclusive and equitable for students. Thursdays, 1:00pm–3:00pm, starting January 26. ΔΔ
Research Mentor Training — CIRTL Network Section
Work with a community of peers to develop and improve your research mentoring skills. Students will develop their personal mentoring philosophy, learn how to articulate that philosophy across a variety of disciplines, and refine strategies for dealing with mentoring challenges. Mondays, 12:30pm – 2:00pm, January 23 to February 27. ∆
Postdoc Teaching Practicum
In this practicum, postdocs will observe mentors in their teaching, teach guest lectures and receive feedback on their teaching, discuss teaching approaches with their mentors, and engage in group discussions of teaching with peers in the practicum. Five online sessions on Thursdays: September 15, October 6, October 27, November 17, and December 8. ∆∆
Teaching in Science and Engineering: The College Classroom (Cross Institution)
Develop foundational knowledge of evidence-based pedagogical practices, explore how excellence and diversity are intertwined, and try new teaching approaches in a supportive environment. Wednesdays, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, starting September 29. ΔΔ
Podcast Club: Inclusive teaching and universal design for learning (Fall 2021)
Join us for a participant-facilitated community using podcasts around the topics of universal design for learning and inclusive teaching. Fridays, 2pm-3pm starting Sep 17th. Δ
Beyond Rhetoric: Developing an Ethical and Equitable Practice
This course combines hands-on experiential learning with multimedia resources to give an overview of recent educational theories and their intersection with promoting inclusivity and justice in the classroom. Mondays, 3:30pm – 5:30pm, starting January 31. ΔΔ
Future and First Year Faculty Teaching Academy
Learn teaching and learning fundamentals in this 6-day online course designed for future and early career faculty. Registration opens May 9. Course runs Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 7 – June 23, 1:30pm – 3:30pm. Δ
Book Club — Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students’ Search for Community at Historically White Universities
How would learning about the experiences of Black and Latinx students at historically white universities shape your understanding of your students, yourself, and your teaching practices? Join us for a summer book club conversation using the book "Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students' Search for Community at Historically White Universities." Wednesdays, 12:00pm – 1:00pm, starting July 7. Δ
Exploring Practices in the Classroom (EPIC): Remote Teaching and Learning
For TAs teaching in remote/online courses: develop an effective, inclusive teaching practice for the remote classroom, as well as navigate teaching challenges as they emerge throughout the semester. Δ
Using Writing to Teach in Any Discipline
Research has shown that, when students write more in a course, they learn course content more effectively and engage more deeply with the material. Learn how to use writing to promote students’ active learning, while maximizing your own time, in any disciplinary or course context. Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30pm, starting January 24. ΔΔ
Book club reading Black, Brown, Bruised– talking about race and STEM education
We invite anyone and everyone to join us for a book club and community conversation around Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation by Ebony Omotola McGee. Δ
5-Week Learning Communities for Teaching Assistants Teaching Remotely
Join a learning community of graduate student TA's and share practical tips and tricks to structure and support student learning in the virtual classroom. Δ
Fundamentals of Online Learning and Teaching
Interested in online teaching? Join this intensive two-week short course to learn the fundamentals of how to teach online. Δ
Summer Teaching Institute at the University of British Columbia
Explore active learning, formative, summative, and hypothesis-driven assessment, and responsiveness to diversity. Participants will examine a variety of teaching practices and principles and will participate in peer-evaluated micro-teaching exercise. June 14 – 23. ΔΔ
CIRTL Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching: July 12 – 16
Explore active learning, formative, summative, and hypothesis-driven assessment, and responsiveness to diversity. Participants will examine a variety of teaching practices and principles and will participate in peer-evaluated micro-teaching exercise. Δ
Teaching Institute at Johns Hopkins University
REGISTRATION FULL. Learn common themes and challenges of teaching in higher ed during this 4-day institute, which will take place online. May 24 – May 27. Δ
Transforming Your Research Into Teaching – Short Course
Learn how to build a course out of your research specialty in this 7-week course that guides grad students and postdocs through the fundamentals of course design. Δ
Basics of Online Learning and Teaching
Build your own online course in this blended 10-week course that walks students through online course development in a mix of synchronous sessions and asynchronous activities. Registration opens May 9. Tuesdays, 10:00am – 11:30am, starting June 7. ΔΔ
Moving beyond boilerplate: Equity and Inclusion in the College Classroom
Unpack the mechanisms that give rise to inequity in higher education, examine our own participation in those mechanisms, and generate alternative ways of teaching that challenge those mechanisms. ΔΔ
Exploring Practices in the Classroom (EPIC): Inclusive Teaching
For experienced TAs: Continue your development as an instructor with an in-depth exploration of inclusive teaching practices and opportunities to apply them in your own classroom. Δ
Teaching Plan 4-Week Series
Join this 4-week series to learn how to develop an aligned teaching plan with measurable learning outcomes, assessments that promote student learning, and engaging activities. Prerequisite: Must have taken 2Δ of teaching & learning coursework. Four Wednesdays 12:30pm-2:30pm: November 2, 9, 16, and 30. This series is a prerequisite to join the Delta internship.
Planning Your Teaching-as-Research Project
Plan and refine your own Teaching-as-Research project alongside a learning community of peers in this 6-week online course. Wednesdays, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, starting June 22. ∆
Intro to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching – MOOC
This free, 8-week, asynchronous online course will provide future and current STEM faculty with an introduction to evidence-based STEM teaching practices. Registration opens August 31. Course runs September 26 – November 20. Δ
Teaching in Science and Engineering: The College Classroom
Develop foundational knowledge of evidence-based pedagogical practices, explore how excellence and diversity are intertwined, and try new teaching approaches in a supportive environment. Choose from two available sections: Thursdays, 11:00am – 1:00pm, or Tuesdays, 1:20pm – 3:15pm. ΔΔ
Equity in STEM for All Genders
Analyze gender bias and collaboratively develop approaches to counter gender bias in STEM in this 9-week online course. ΔΔ
Research Mentor Learning Community
Based on a nationally-recognized curriculum, this learning community gives you space to explore strategies to become a more effective, culturally responsive mentor and discuss mentoring challenges as they arise. Multiple sections available, for both STEM and social sciences disciplinary groups. Δ
Intro to Evidence-Based STEM Teaching: Local UW–Madison Learning Community
Begin your journey to becoming an inclusive and evidence-based STEM instructor! Join this 7-week course to get an overview of effective college teaching strategies, and explore how to apply them with a local learning community. Fridays, 10:00am – 11:00am, starting June 24. Δ
Online Teaching Practicum
The Online Teaching Practicum is a unique opportunity to learn how to effectively support synchronous online learning, with the option to propose and facilitate a future online workshop. ΔΔ
How People Learn
The purpose of this six-week series is to take participants on a journey through these texts, beginning with the scientific bases of learning, through the design of successful learning environments, the role of culture in the learning process, and finally, integrating digital technologies into the effective learning environment. Δ
Leveraging Tech to Teach
Teach better and more efficiently by harnessing learning technologies in your practice. We’ll explore how to effectively use tools such as videos, interactive media, screencasting, games and simulations, online discussions, and of course, Canvas. Thursdays, 1:00pm–4:00pm, starting September 9. ΔΔ
Effective Teaching in an Internationally Diverse Classroom
Using the lens of international experience, this discussion-based course models 'flipped classroom' and 'blended learning' approaches and advances your skills in leveraging the diversity of your students for the learning of all. Fridays, 10:00am–12:00pm, starting September 10. ΔΔ
Exploring Practices in the Classroom (EPIC): A learning community of TAs
Your time as a TA is a superb opportunity to prepare yourself for the teaching you will do as a future faculty member or in other careers. This interdisciplinary learning community of TAs will help you develop as an effective, inclusive teacher, while working together to learn from and navigate teaching challenges as they emerge throughout the semester. Wednesdays, 9:00am – 10:00am, starting February 2. Δ
Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching
In this five-day, online institute, participants will design an evidence-based, inclusive teaching activity. Each day will be split between independent work, large group activities and lessons, and small group work. ΔΔ
Exploring Teaching Practices for International TAs
International graduate teaching assistants (TAs) will use their own diverse educational backgrounds to explore approaches and develop skills as effective instructors. Δ
Informal Science Education for Scientists and Engineers
Learn how to communicate scientific concepts with a variety of audiences in informal settings. This course merges experiential learning with critical reflection on public communication concepts, processes, and issues. ΔΔ
Advancing Learning through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching
An 8-week open, online, asynchronous short course (MOOC) designed to provide graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and other aspiring faculty in STEM disciplines with an overview of effective college teaching strategies and the research that supports them, starting January 30. Δ
Engaging Students in the Teaching of Statistics – Short Course
Learn the pedagogical foundations to effective teaching and learning in statistics in this short 4-session course. Δ
Diversity in the College Classroom
Explore the theory behind how diversity affects learning and develop practical classroom strategies in this 9-week course designed for STEM/SBE grad students and postdocs. ΔΔ
Research Mentor Training: Faculty-only section
Explore strategies to become a more effective, culturally responsive mentor, and discuss mentoring challenges as they arise. Δ
Improv to Improve Science Communication and Teaching
Use the principles of improv theater to improve your communication in multiple contexts and audiences, including talking with colleagues, presenting your research, and teaching in the classroom. Tuesdays, 1:00pm – 3:00pm starting January 24. Δ
WHAT ARE THOSE Δ’S?
We use Δ’s (deltas) to indicate how a course counts toward our Internship and Certificate prerequisites:
Internship Prerequisites
2Δ’s + Teaching Plan 4-week series
Certificate Prerequisites
5Δ’s (total) + Internship
