January 2021
Interactive learning in BBC-U: How to, tips and tricks
How can you use polls, annotating, the whiteboard, and breakout groups to promote engaging and effective synchronous teaching sessions in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, specifically? This workshop will demo and talk best practices
Find out more »TA Teaching and Learning Hour
Weekly drop-in for any and all TA's. We'll prevent and resolve challenges, and share successes and tips. This hour's 10-Minute Tip: Better Ways to Break the Ice. Please register at least one hour before the event starts.
Find out more »February 2021
TA Teaching and Learning Hour
Weekly drop-in for any and all TA's. We'll prevent and resolve challenges, and share successes and tips. Today's 10-Minute Tip: Polls and Annotations in Remote Teaching. Please register at least one hour before the event starts.
Find out more »The Graduate Roadmap: Leveraging Individual Development Plans in Academic Career Planning
Walk through the process of developing an Individual Development Plan and applying it to your academic career in this three-part workshop.
Find out more »Writing an Effective Teaching Philosophy Statement
Use this two-part online workshop to draft a peer-reviewed statement that reflects your teaching beliefs and experiences, and be ready for the academic job market.
Find out more »Ebony Omotola McGee, author of Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation
Join an online discussion with Ebony Omotola McGee, author of the book Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation. Please note there will not be an overview or presentation, but rather this is a Q&A about the book.
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Weekly drop-in for any and all TA's. We'll prevent and resolve challenges, and share successes and tips. Today's 10-Minute Tip: Successful Assignments and Fewer Emails with Questions Through Transparency. Please register at least one hour before the event starts.
Find out more »Trauma-Responsive Teaching
Learn general principles and practices associated with trauma-responsive teaching that you can bring back to your own classrooms.
Find out more »From Student to Expert: Breaking Down Disciplinary Tasks in the Classroom
In this two-part workshop, learn how to break down (or "decode") tasks and how to model them for students.
Find out more »TA Teaching and Learning Hour
Weekly drop-in for any and all TA's. We'll prevent and resolve challenges, and share successes and tips. Today's 10-Minute Tip: Ways to Reduce Repeat Questions. Please register at least one hour before the event starts.
Find out more »TA Teaching and Learning Hour
Weekly drop-in for any and all TA's. We'll prevent and resolve challenges, and share successes and tips. Please register at least one hour before the event starts.
Find out more »March 2021
What Have I Really Learned?
Learn to recognize and articulate your graduate skillset, and to translate that skillset into terms and concepts that are recognizable by a wide range of employers, both in academia and beyond.
Find out more »Considering the Whole Self in Teaching and Learning: Mental and Physical Wellbeing in the Classroom
In this two-part workshop, participants will explore the relationships between mental and emotional health, the human body, and learning.
Find out more »Developing Professional Skill Sets in Mentoring and Advising Relationships
Break down the interpersonal skillset that graduate students develop: what these skills are, how they show up in the many roles that grad students play, and how they apply to different career paths you may be interested in pursuing.
Find out more »How Completing a TAR Project Impacted My Career
Join us to hear from a panel who will share what they learned by completing a Teaching-as-Research (TAR) project and how they leveraged their TAR project in their career.
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