Conferences, Institutes, & Workshops

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Seminars & Institutes

The GSI Teaching & Resource Center offers a variety of institutes and seminars, some held during summer months, on promoting professional development, improving grading practices, and other topics related to university teaching.

Institutes

Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty

From May 23 to June 27, 2012, the Graduate Division will offer its tenth 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 1, 2012.

Applications are submitted on line. Please see our Summer Institute Guidelines page. Statements about the program from previous participants are also available.

Seminars

The GSI Teaching & Resource Center offers annual seminars on faculty teaching and university education.

Seminars and Workshop Series

The GSI Teaching and Resource Center offers annual seminars and workshop series on teaching in higher education.

Syllabus and Course Design Workshop Series:

This series is intended for GSIs who may need to prepare a syllabus for a Summer Session course, for a future semester, or for the academic job search. This year's sessions will be held on April 4, 11, 18, and 25, from 2 to 4 pm. Please see the Syllabus and Course Design web page for further information and to pre-register. The deadline for pre-registration is March 30.

Mentoring in Higher Education:

A one-unit course on mentoring is offered each spring through the GSI Teaching & Resource Center's Graduate Student Professional Development Program (GSPDP). This seminar will assist you in mentoring undergraduates, establishing and working in the context of mentoring relationships with faculty, and preparing for the mentoring you will do in future academic careers. The course includes readings, in-class discussion, short assignments, and an applied component of mentoring.

Other recent seminars include the following:

Course Grading Policies and Student Motivation: The overall purposes of the seminar were 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 & 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 & 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.