The Job Search Circle meets once a month. This is an opportunity for students currently exploring career options in and outside of academia to set career-related goals and share progress, learn new strategies, and connect with other graduate students going … Read more

Through a combination of recorded events and a synchronous online panel discussion, this workshop series will provide graduate and senior undergraduate students with information about the following: a) the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) call for proposals, b) how … Read more

Individual Development Plans (IDPs) are important tools to assess skills, explore career options, and create goals to advance your career trajectory. This workshop will guide participants through the process of creating an IDP using interactive self-assessments, skills mapping exercises, and … Read more

Discover your innate natural talents, then learn how to apply them to achieve your goals. Understanding your strengths will help as you explore careers, work in teams, and find strategies that are best suited to you and what you already … Read more

Instructor’s non-content related communication with students is important to establish and create a more inclusive classroom.Building trust and responding to students’ learning needs are crucial for a successful learning experience. Participants will learn about how and what to say as … Read more

This workshop will allow participants to design a lesson plan and implement it as a teaching demonstration. The focus will be to identify an appropriate active learning technique, deliver the lesson and provide an opportunity for additional guidance and feedback … Read more

Participants will learn tangible strategies to increase student engagement and their achievement of learning outcomes. These student-centered strategies promote inclusion and participation of all students. Pitfalls with implementing active learning techniques and approaches to overcome these challenges will also be … Read more

Managing a course (and students) is always a challenge in teaching. This workshop will provide scenarios and cases that focus on common situations that all teaching assistants should be prepared to address such as disruptive behavior, dealing with excuses, and … Read more

Discover your innate natural talents, then learn how to apply them to achieve your goals. Understanding your strengths will help as you explore careers, work in teams, and find strategies that are best suited to you and what you already … Read more

Are you teaching a course for the first time this Fall? Have you taught before and want to revise or refresh the content? This workshop will use Backward Course Design to assist instructors on developing a syllabus, a course plan, … Read more