NEW! Academic Innovation Studio (AIS) open to GSIs and GSRs Academic Innovation Studio (AIS) is new a place where Graduate Student Instructors and Graduate Student Researchers can receive support and find inspiration for…
GSIs and their Teaching Mentors are Celebrated at Spring Award Ceremonies GSIs and faculty mentors were honored for their excellence with various award ceremonies and presentations this spring.
Spring Teaching Workshops for GSIs The GSI Center’s Workshops on Teaching for GSIs cover a wide variety of topics related to university teaching…
GSIs and Faculty Win Awards for Teaching and Mentorship In recognition of the excellence of Graduate Student Instructors' in teaching undergraduates, as well as the outstanding work of faculty members who mentor those GSIs, the GSI Teaching & Resource Center held three award ceremonies this spring.
GSI Workshops on Teaching: Strategies for Efficient and Effective Grading — 2/24/2014 February 24, 2014 1-2:30 pm at 110 Sproul Hall Grading brings stress to GSIs and students alike. While students are anxious about the outcome,…
GSI Workshops on Teaching: Teaching Critical Reading — 2/21/2014 February 21, 2014 1-2:30 pm at 110 Sproul Hall How did you learn to grasp the form and value of a scientific article? How…
Workshops for GSIs The following workshops, sponsored by the GSI Teaching & Resource Center, fulfill requirements of the Center’s Certificate of Teaching and Learning in…
First Time GSI? Register Now for the Fall Teaching Conference All GSIs teaching for the first time at Berkeley are required to attend the workshops.
Building new research on how students learn into the ways they’re taught If you're going to teach, knowing how students really learn is an advantage.
GSIs (and their mentors) are central to Berkeley’s teaching mission Dear Graduate Students, As the spring semester drew to a close, I enjoyed several opportunities to celebrate great teaching by graduate students.…
Out of thousands of dedicated GSIs, 276 are named especially outstanding Their departments nominate them, a GSI-related faculty committee selects them, and colleagues, family, and friends come together to honor them in a commencement-like ceremony. What it all means is that they're already pretty darn good teachers.
The key to totally surprising a mentor: no leaks So far, nobody’s let the cat out of the bag, so the surprise has been total in every case. Despite Berkeley’s long tradition of protest and California’s reputation for spontaneity, faculty members here simply don’t expect to be interrupted by outsiders while they’re teaching a class. When it dawns on them that the invasion brings unexpected but happy news for them personally, decorum goes out the window.
March and April teaching and mentoring: an award, workshops, and time to apply for an institute 2011 winner Susan Muller and her GSIs GSIs: do you have a great mentor? Nominate by March 5. Mentoring award nominations: Nominations…
Graduate Division Workshops: Fall 2011 (Several workshops in our fall series have already taken place, but more are coming up, as detailed below.) GROW Workshop September 20…
The GSI Center’s Workshops on Teaching – Fall 2011 A professional development series for Graduate Student Instructors presented by the Graduate Division’s GSI Teaching & Resource Center, these Workshops on Teaching…
294 GSIs are celebrated as officially “Outstanding” Of the many, many GSIs on campus, nearly 300 were singled out as Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors by the Graduate Division's GSI Center --- and 10 GSIs were given special recognition for their innovative solutions to teaching problems.
Faculty who guide grad students are honored, ready or not The unselfish help of mentors was recently recognized by the Graduate Division, the Sarlo Foundation, and the Graduate Assembly, in a warm gathering and in two friendly ambush-style presentations.
Steps to success, or how the fellowship was won Sending in all those applications can pay off, and sometimes we hear about it. Case in point: Ph.D. student Vasundhara Sirnate was selected for a $30,000 award. She tells us how that happened.
Outstanding GSIs and their mentors are honored: a quick preview Outstanding GSIs, and mentors of GSIs, were honored in droves over the past few weeks. We’ll be saying more, in detail and with pictures, in the near future, but meanwhile here are the categories — at least those which fall under the umbrella of the Graduate Division (and, in one case, its partner, the Graduate Assembly).
Set the stage for honoring faculty mentors — nominate now! Every year, the Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly team up to call public attention to the exemplary and caring assistance individual faculty members have provided to their students.