Student Spotlights
Student Spotlight: Milica Iličić, PhD Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages
In this spotlight, Milica discusses her experience in the Advanced Track of the CTL’s Teaching Development Program (TDP), including the CTL offerings that were most instructive. She also shares her experience creating a digital teaching portfolio as a capstone assignment for the TDP, and shares teaching strategies that she has found effective.
Student Spotlight: Monica Thieu, PhD, Department of Psychology
In this spotlight, Monica shares what motivated her to join the Advanced Track of the CTL’s Teaching Development Program, and how interacting with interdisciplinary peers has strengthened her teaching experience. She also shares her experience working on a Provost’s Funded Project, and imparts a strategy she uses in her own teaching practice.
Student Spotlight: Jessie Oehrlein, PhD in Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics
In this spotlight, Jessie discusses why she applied to the Teaching Assessment Fellowship program and what she learned from it, including the benefits of working with interdisciplinary teams and peers. She also shares helpful teaching and assessment strategies for instructors that she has incorporated into her own classroom.
Student Spotlight: Claire Dillon, PhD Candidate in Art History and Archaeology
In this spotlight, Claire discusses her motivation to participate as a Teaching Observation Fellow and a Teaching Consultant, and how these experiences helped with her own pedagogical development and provided her with new perspectives on teaching practices. Claire also shares teaching strategies for graduate student instructors.
Student Spotlight: Niyati Shenoy, PhD Candidate in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
In this spotlight, Niyati shares what she has learned as both a participant in the TDP as well as through her experience as a TDP Consultant, including the benefits of peer observation and how her disciplinary interests and research have influenced her teaching, and vice versa.
Student Spotlight: Miguel Ángel Garrido, PhD Candidate in Statistics
In this spotlight story, Miguel Ángel Garrido shares how his approach to teaching has changed as a result of attending CTL workshops, facilitating conversations about teaching with peers and colleagues in his department, and collaborating with the interdisciplinary cohort of Lead Teaching Fellows.
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