This Week for Grad Students: September 4, 2018

by | Sep 4, 2018

Are you teaching a course this semester? The CTL offers foundational workshops to deepen insight that you have started to develop at teaching orientations or in early teaching experiences.

Essentials of Teaching and Learning

The Essentials of Teaching and Learning workshops offer new or developing graduate student instructors approaches to better facilitate student learning and improve teaching practices. Register below and learn more here.

Entering the Classroom: Creating Inclusive Learning Environments
Learn about the key terms, frameworks, and principles of inclusive teaching. We will ask how instructors can create inclusive classroom environments that set up all students for success, as well as how they can help students learn through the diversity of experiences and perspectives they bring to the classroom.

Date: Monday, September 17, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Butler Library Room 212

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Organizing Your Teaching: Learning Objectives and Backward Design
Learn about and engage with the backward design approach to lesson planning to better organize your teaching and your students’ learning. We will engage with strategies to determine and describe learning objectives for your students, and discuss the use of these learning objectives to help drive assignments, feedback, and in-class activities.

Date: Monday, September 24, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Butler Library Room 212

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Facilitating Learning Inside Your Classroom: Active Learning
Practice developing class activities aligned with learning objectives that incentivize all students to participate. We will discuss the evidence and efficacy of a variety of active learning strategies, and consider how these approaches can make our classrooms more inclusive.

Date: Monday, October 1, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Butler Library Room 212

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Facilitating Learning Beyond Your Classroom: Grading & Feedback
Learn how to engage students in their learning beyond the classroom by giving more effective feedback. We will discuss the use of rubrics to help streamline and standardize grading, while helping students better understand what is valuable in the topic and discipline.

Date: Monday, October 8, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Butler Library Room 212

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Evidence-Based Teaching in Science and Engineering (ETSE)

Are you a graduate student in STEM teaching for the first time or a postdoc looking to advance your teaching? In the Evidence-Based Teaching in Science and Engineering (ETSE) seminar, you will apply the principles of backward design to develop student learning objectives, aligned assessments, and active learning activities to better facilitate student learning, culminating in a syllabus for an introductory class in your discipline.

Join us for a light dinner (5:00 – 7:00 PM) on Thursdays at the Morningside campus (location TBA), where we will meet on September 13, 20, 27, and October 4. Participants who attend all workshops and complete all assignments will receive a letter from the CTL certifying completion.

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Upcoming Events

Microteaching Practice for Graduate Students

Want to practice a new in-class activity or just get some more practice before teaching in a classroom? Join peers in a Microteaching Practice session where you will divide into groups of 3-4 with a facilitator and take turns delivering short samples of instruction to each other. After each teaching sample, your facilitator and your peers will offer structured feedback to support your teaching.

Dates:
Friday, September 21, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Butler Library Room 204

Course Management: Introduction to CourseWorks (Canvas)

This workshop provides an overview of the basic features and functionality of a course management system that allows instructors to build and support engaging courses. During the workshop, instructors learn how to migrate their content from CourseWorks (Sakai), navigate Canvas, manage syllabus and course materials, use quizzing tools, and utilize communication features in the system.

Dates:
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Monday, November 12, 2018

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Butler Library Room 204

Planning ahead?

Visit ctl.columbia.edu/events.

Teaching question?

Email CTLgrads@columbia.edu.
Visit ctl.columbia.edu/graduate-instructors.