GPS Resources

August 11, 2015

Workshops on Teaching for GSIs

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

Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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

Teaching Guide for GSIs

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

Award-Winning GSI Teaching Ideas

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

GSI Teaching Gallery

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…

August 11, 2015

GSPDP 320: Academic Writing for Graduate Students

This course provides graduate students with formal instruction in the genres and mechanics of academic writing at the graduate and professorial level. Through presentations, readings, discussion, and weekly peer editing, graduate students will develop writing and editing skills necessary for their success as graduate students and future faculty. Course Goals to…

August 11, 2015

Getting into Grad School (GiGS)

Getting into Grad School (GiGS) is a collaborative partnership between the Office of Graduate Diversity and the Graduate Assembly (GA). Its goal is to prepare undergraduate UC Berkeley students to select, apply to, and enroll in graduate school. By working with key staff and graduate student mentors, motivated undergraduates are inspired to pursue academic…

August 11, 2015

Berkeley Connect

Undergraduates at Berkeley increasingly wish for a more intimate and supportive academic experience, one in which they can be part of an intellectual community comprising faculty, graduate students, their fellow undergraduates, and alumni/ae. Berkeley Connect provides just such an experience by placing participants in small discussion groups assigned to a…

July 31, 2015

Protection of Human Subjects Student Investigators Guide

The Committee for Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) has put together a guide to introduce students to the process of submitting an application to CPHS, UC Berkeley’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), including key information and associated content links to other areas of the CPHS website. The Office for Protection of Human…

July 31, 2015

Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Training at D-Lab

D-Lab’s workshops and other training offerings focus on students’ individual needs. They aim to help users needing short training around research software, tools, and techniques. They also address career planning, grant writing, and networking for graduate students. The trainings are designed for a wide range of skill levels and backgrounds to address a…

June 8, 2015

How Students Learn: Talks by UC Berkeley Faculty Researchers

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…