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
Applying Active Learning: Using Writing to Teach in Any Discipline
Learn how to use writing to promote students’ active learning, while maximizing your own time, in any disciplinary or course context. 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
Online MOOC-Centered Learning Community
Students enrolled in "Intro to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching" MOOC can sign up for this additional learning community to engage more deeply with course content through weekly synchronous discussion sessions. 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: June 8 – 12 and June 15 – 19
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. ΔΔ
Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching: June 22 – 26
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: June 2 – 5
Learn common themes and challenges of teaching in higher ed during this 3-day institute, which will take place online. 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. ΔΔ
Research Mentor Training – Summer 2020
Explore strategies to become a more effective, culturally responsive mentor, and discuss mentoring challenges as they arise. Δ
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.
Planning Your Teaching-as-Research Project
Plan and refine your own Teaching-as-Research project alongside a learning community of peers in this 11-week online course. Δ
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. 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. 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 Training
Explore strategies to become a more effective, culturally responsive mentor, and discuss mentoring challenges as they arise. (Currently full, but you can register to be put on a waitlist.) Δ
Intro to Evidence-Based STEM Teaching local learning community
The Delta Program will offer local Learning Community to support the online Introduction Evidenced-Based STEM Teaching course. 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. 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. ΔΔ
Exploring Practices in the Classroom (EPIC): Foundations
For new or experienced TAs: develop an effective, inclusive teaching practice as well as navigate teaching challenges as they emerge throughout the semester. Δ
Internship Seminar
Develop your teaching skills with a real-world project to address a challenge in student learning.
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 future STEM faculty, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with an introduction to effective teaching strategies and the research that supports them. 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. 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 Certificate Prerequisites |
