Being a TA can be challenging. You juggle research, teaching schedules, important meetings, and your personal life. There is no universal roadmap for how to keep all of these priorities […]

This workshop builds on concepts and strategies from Creating Inclusive Classrooms and Interrupting Bias to cultivate inclusivity to help instructors learn how to prepare and manage their classrooms when teaching […]

This workshop will explore strategies for organizing office hours, for effective one-on-one communication, and for setting boundaries. TAs will review case studies of real office hour challenges and will discuss […]

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck […]

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the […]

Faculty, TAs and staff play a critical role in a student's university experience and are in a position to become aware of a student in distress. This presentation will help […]

As facilitators of discussion sections, STEM TAs are frequently concerned that they will spend sections solving problems at the board for passive students. This workshop will go over the principles […]

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students […]

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an […]

This 1.5 hr workshop will assist graduate students as they prepare to lead their own course this summer. Whether you are working from an old syllabus or starting from scratch, […]