Resource Type: Reference

The Berkeley Graduate

The Berkeley Graduate, the Graduate Assembly-sponsored publication, is always looking for guest columnists. They welcome columns from Berkeley graduate and professional students on a wide variety of topics related to student life, research, and involvement in the wider community. Columns may range from how to survive and thrive as a graduate or…

D-Lab Newsletter

A weekly newsletter full of information about the qualitative and quantitative methods trainings hosted by D-Lab, their interdisciplinary workgroups, and data science in the news. Sign up at the D-Lab website.

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…

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…

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…

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…