June 14, 2017
GSIs and faculty mentors were honored for their excellence with award ceremonies and presentations this spring.
June 4, 2017
You’ve just been appointed for the first time as a GSI at UC Berkeley. Now what? The annual GSI Teaching Conference is the place for you.
August 11, 2015
Through this course GSIs learn about policies, practices, and standards that all instructors need to know in order to perform their responsibilities professionally and ethically. The course is structured in five modules: Promoting Learning through Diversity: The Inclusive Classroom Teaching Students with Disabilities Creating an Educational Environment Free of Sexual…
August 11, 2015
Offered each semester, the GSI Center’s Workshops on Teaching for GSIs cover a wide variety of topics related to university teaching and the GSI experience in 80 minutes. The purpose of the series is to offer GSIs, and other graduate students interested in teaching, opportunities for hands-on learning and practical…
August 11, 2015
As a national leader in preparing graduate students for teaching, UC Berkeley is one of the few universities in the country that have a comprehensive policy on GSI mentoring. The development activities that Berkeley GSIs undertake to fulfill the requirements of this policy—the Teaching Conference, the Online Ethics Course, and…
August 11, 2015
The Teaching Guide is meant to give UC Berkeley GSIs well informed guidance as they begin teaching and throughout their GSI appointments as they continue to hone their skills. Most of the material was researched and developed by current and former GSIs at Berkeley, so it’s contextualized to our teaching…
August 11, 2015
Over 200 essays written by recipients of the Teaching Effectiveness Award (TEA), a very competitive award given each year by the Graduate Council’s Faculty Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs. Each essay identifies a problem the GSI encountered in teaching, explains the GSI’s strategy and rationale in devising a solution, and…
August 11, 2015
This video series showcases examples of several common GSI activities. Some frequent kinds of classroom interactions can be difficult to visualize for instructors unfamiliar with running a section or lab but these four highly effective Berkeley GSIs generously allowed us to record a class period. Most of the videos are…
June 8, 2015
Structuring class activities and assignments that best help students learn is a difficult art to master, so GSIs do well to become informed about the practices that are most effective for student learning and what makes them effective. On the GSI Center website, you will find links to a variety…