Competency: Teaching

While graduate students do not need to become experts in how students learn, a basic understanding of the research on learning can enable GSIs to make informed teaching decisions. Drawing on research findings from neuroscience, anthropology, and cognitive and social psychology, this workshop will enable GSIs to consider ways to…

The GSI Center’s Workshops on Teaching for GSIs cover a wide variety of topics related to university teaching and the GSI experience. The purpose of the series is to offer GSIs, and other graduate students interested in teaching, opportunities for hands-on learning and practical discussion about pedagogy.

Creating accessible course materials can ensure that students are able to fully engage with your course. In this session, you will learn how to leverage Ally, an integrated accessibility tool in bCourses, to make your bCourses content more accessible. Ally is an integrated accessibility tool in bCourses that provides: Alternative formats…

Join CRB Nexus: Where Policy Meets Research for a live virtual discussion featuring Gina Garcia, Jon Gould, and Nicholas Vargas, as they discuss Higher Education policy and practice on Friday, January 26, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM! The CRB Nexus is a community of California researchers, practitioners, policymakers,…

At the end of November in 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a text-generating AI with never-before-seen capabilities of producing almost any type of text with the click of a button. Students immediately realized the potential of using it for their assignments, easily generating essays and code, while avoiding being caught by…

Live polling is a great way to make lectures more interactive. UC Berkeley sponsors two online polling tools, Poll EveryWhere and iClicker Cloud. In this session, we will review the basics of iClicker Cloud. With iClicker Cloud, you no longer need physical clickers! iClicker’s software works right on top of…

Live polling is a great way to make lectures more interactive. UC Berkeley sponsors two online polling tools, Poll EveryWhere and iClicker Cloud. In this session, we’re going to take a look at the basics of Poll Everywhere. You will learn how to use Poll Everywhere in class to encourage student…

Designing a student-friendly bCourse course can be time consuming and overwhelming, and  it may seem easier to think of bCourses as a file repository shared with students. However, creating a bCourses site that is organized in an intuitive way can save you time and help students find the information and…

Join us for a hands-on workshop focused on equipping you with essential skills to develop key components of your course on bCourses. By the end of this workshop, you will have: Uploaded and formatted your syllabus Developed an assignment Designed a quiz Created at least one Module…

Join this workshop to discover the ins and outs of setting up your Gradebook in bCourses. We’ll guide you through weighting grades, dropping the lowest scores, and various other techniques to make sure Canvas calculates your grades exactly as you intend. In this workshop, you will learn how…

Creating a learning environment that includes and supports all students can be challenging. Although inclusion and diversity are important to all of us, professional development can provide lots of great ideas but not sure how to integrate them into your content and teaching. In this session, we will…

Join us for an overview of bCourses (Canvas), Berkeley’s learning management system, and its native (built-in) features such as, Pages, Modules, Assignments, and other basic settings to familiarize you with this learning management system. By the end of this workshop you will: Have an understanding of bCourses features. Gain…

This workshop is designed for graduate students who are interested in improving their statements ​of teaching philosophy through feedback​ ​from peers. Workshop participants will exchange statements of teaching philosophy and provide​ ​and receive input. Participants must bring two copies of a draft of their statement of teaching philosophy to participate…

Learn about the role teaching plays in applying for faculty positions and how to prepare for this aspect of the academic job search from graduate students who have accepted positions at a variety of colleges and universities. Panelists Ty Blakeney French Joining the Faculty at Northwestern…

This workshop is designed for graduate students who are interested in improving their statements ​of teaching philosophy through feedback​ ​from peers. Workshop participants will exchange statements of teaching philosophy and provide​ ​and receive input. Participants must bring two copies of a draft of their statement of teaching philosophy to participate…

While graduate students do not need to become experts in how students learn, a basic understanding of the research on learning can enable GSIs to make informed teaching decisions. Drawing on research findings from neuroscience, anthropology, and cognitive and social psychology, this workshop will enable GSIs to consider ways to…

Are you responsible for designing a course and syllabus for this coming fall or next spring? Are you​ ​interested in developing a syllabus for the academic job search? In this workshop, participants will learn ways to turn their syllabus ideas into integrated courses and will work out criteria for selecting…

In this workshop participants will learn how to create and use grading rubrics as a means to grade efficiently, give students targeted feedback on their learning, and align grading with learning outcomes articulated in assignments.

Do you ever have trouble eliciting student participation in class? Do some consistently take the floor while others rarely speak up? Do you wish you had more strategies to get students involved with the course material? In this workshop we will discuss reasons students may tend to hold back and…