General Information

Introducing the GSI Teaching and Resource Center 's
Online Course for GSIs on Professional Standards and Ethics in Teaching

This online course, Professional Standards and Ethics in Teaching, is one of the requirements of the Graduate Council Policy on Appointments and Mentoring of GSIs and is intended to introduce GSIs to policies, practices, and standards that all instructors need to know in order to perform their responsibilities professionally and ethically. Coupled with the seminar on teaching and learning in higher education that GSIs take in their departments, the Teaching Conference and other programs sponsored by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center, and the mentoring GSIs receive from the faculty member with whom they teach, this online course will provide GSIs with an excellent foundation as they begin to teach at Berkeley.

GSIs play a central role in undergraduate education at Berkeley. The goal of this online course is to enable GSIs to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that promotes student learning and their own growth as instructors while upholding the professional standards and expectations of the University.

Modules include:

• Promoting Learning through Diversity: The Inclusive Classroom
• Teaching Students with Disabilities
• Creating an Educational Environment Free of Sexual Harassment
• Fostering Academic Integrity
• GSI Responsibilities and Ethics