Formal Pedagogical Training

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Teaching Development Program: Advanced Track

  • Program components completed include:

    • “Essentials of Teaching and Learning” 4-part series

    • “Considering the Whole Self in Teaching and Learning” 2-part series

    • “Designing and Using Effective Rubrics” workshop

    • “Learning by Observing” workshop

    • “TILting Authority: Hierarchy and Boundaries in the Classroom” 2-part series

    • Micro-Teaching session

    • Teaching observation of a peer (graduate student) instructor

    • Mid-course review on the How-Tos of Research class

CTL Assessing Teaching and Learning Seminar (ATLS)

  • Completed a 7-week asynchronous seminar that focused on applying principles of research to teaching-related questions (e.g., Teaching as Research: TaR)

  • Wrote a research proposal for the How-Tos of Research class titled “Do formative assessments in the form of weekly short quizzes positively impact student learning and retention of material?”

CTL Innovative Course Design Seminar

  • Completed a 4-part intensive series on evidence-based, inclusive, and online instructional design practices, as well as how to develop context-specific learning objectives and scaffolded assessments

  • Designed syllabus for the “How-Tos of Research” Class as capstone project(see above)

CTL Senior Teaching Assessment Fellow

  • Manage a team of 4 other graduate student teaching assessment fellows (TAF)

  • Partner with faculty members on Provost Funded Projects (PFPs) to help assess the effectiveness

    of Teaching as Research projects

  • Lead meetings for other TAFs on survey design, assessing effectiveness of teaching interventions,

    and qualitative and quantitative analysis

Lead Teaching Fellow with the CTL

  • Organized 2 teaching-related workshops for the psychology department

    • Workshop1: “Reflections on a year and a half of online teaching and learning”

    • Workshop2: “Infusing class syllabi with inclusivity and clarity”

  • Acted as liaison between psychology PhD students and the CTL

  • Attended pedagogical workshops on teaching