Faculty Seminar on Teaching with GSIs

The Graduate Council's Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs and the GSI Teaching and Resource Center are pleased to announce the 13th annual Faculty Seminar on Teaching with GSIs. This seminar assists faculty in working effectively with GSIs and providing guidance and mentorship in teaching. This year's three-session seminar will take place on March 4, 11, and 18 from 2-5 p.m.

Topics to be addressed in this year's seminar include:

• Specific strategies for working well with GSIs and connecting the work of section to that of the larger course
• Giving feedback to GSIs and conducting productive classroom observations
• Guiding the work of GSIs in grading student work

Recipients of the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs and the Distinguished Teaching Award and advanced GSIs will participate as facilitators and share practices they use in working with GSIs. Faculty who participate in the three-afternoon seminar should list their participation on their bio-bibliography as a contribution to teaching.

More than 180 faculty members on the campus have benefited from this seminar since its inception. A research study conducted on the impact of the seminar found that the seminar enabled faculty to work more productively and more efficiently with GSIs. The study also concluded that the seminar had led to significant improvements in the quality of teaching done by faculty who had participated in the seminar.

Please register online by Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Please feel free to contact gsi@berkeley.edu with any questions you may have.

We hope you can join us at this year's seminar.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Reimer
Chair, Graduate Council's Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering