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Seminars & Institutes

Institutes

Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty

From May 28-July 2, 2008, the Graduate Division will offer its sixth annual Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty. The aim of this program is to enable graduate students to excel in all aspects of academic life as they pursue an advanced degree at Berkeley and transition from graduate school to future academic careers.

The Summer Institute program is geared to graduate students who have advanced to candidacy and are preparing for academic careers.
The application deadline is March 3, 2008.

See information and application materials for the 2008 Summer Institute (76k PDF) and statements about the program from previous participants (96k PDF).

Seminars

The GSI Teaching and Resource Center offers annual seminars on faculty teaching and university education. Recent seminars include the following:

Course Grading Policies and Student Motivation: The overall purpose of the seminar was 1) to explore the impact of course grading and grading policies on student motivation to learn; 2) to examine critically grading strategies designed to evaluate student course performance on the Berkeley campus and beyond in a variety of course settings and disciplinary contexts; 3) to consider the role of GSIs in the process of student evaluation, including the challenges presented by this responsibility and the impact of this experience on a GSI's sense of professional development and career preparation. The GSI Teaching and Resource Center collaborated on this workshop with Martin Covington, Professor of Psychology and Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education.

Integrating Research Into Classroom Teaching: The GSI Teaching and Resource Center, in collaboration with Professor Martin Covington, initiated a working group on ways to integrate research into classroom teaching.

Check back with this site for information on a continuation of these programs and for information on new programs.