by Natalie Graham, Environmental Science, Policy and Management Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2020 For the fall 2019 semester course called Biogeography, I devised a new interdisciplinary learning experience across physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Biogeography was offered at UC Berkeley for the first time in many years in fall 2018. Continue Reading >>
by Sonia Travaglini, College of Engineering (Home Department: Mechanical Engineering) Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2018 Working to support the Masters of Engineering capstone projects, my hardest challenge was teaching students to communicate the value and significance of their highly technical work. Students had to learn science writing; how to use Continue Reading >>
by Christiane Stachl, Chemistry Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2016 I was a graduate student instructor for Chemistry 4A in fall 2015, and I have to say that the general chemistry courses at Berkeley are anything but a joke. For example, Chem 4A is intended for chemistry majors with a strong Continue Reading >>
by Shelly Steward, Sociology Recipient of the Teagle Foundation Award for Excellence in Enhancing Student Learning, 2015 Related Teaching Effectiveness Award essay: Integrating Sociology into Students’ Lives through Twitter In order to make theory a way of understanding the world, students need to be reminded of it outside class. While Continue Reading >>
by Britney Kitamata-Wong, Integrative Biology (Home Department: Optometry) Recipient of the Teagle Foundation Award for Excellence in Enhancing Student Learning, 2015 Related Teaching Effectiveness Award essay: A Clinical Approach to Human Anatomy My first semester teaching human anatomy was an eye-opening experience into the way students learn. I defaulted to Continue Reading >>
November 2014 The following learning objectives for the pedagogy (375) courses required of all first-time GSIs have been developed by the GSI Teaching Resource Center, in consultation with 375 instructors. They are also used by the Graduate Council’s Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs in vetting 375 courses for the Certificate Continue Reading >>
by Jesse Cordes Selbin, English Recipient of the Teagle Foundation Award for Excellence in Enhancing Student Learning, 2014 Related Teaching Effectiveness Award essay: Empowered Learning: History, Collaboratively When I designed a collaborative project for my Reading and Composition course last year, my primary goal was to increase participation. Having observed Continue Reading >>
by Elise Piazza, Vision Science Recipient of the Teagle Foundation Award for Excellence in Enhancing Student Learning, 2014 Related Teaching Effectiveness Award essay: Achieving Widespread Participation through Evidence-Based Classroom Discourse As a GSI for Introduction to Cognitive Science, I developed several empirically driven activities to increase student participation by engaging Continue Reading >>
On This Page Profile Video of the Presentation Summary of the Presentation Profile Lawrence Lowery is Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. He was the Principal Investigator for both the EQUALS math program and FAMILY MATH at the Lawrence Hall of Science. In addition, he Continue Reading >>
by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Rhetoric
[A]sked to write an essay that deals with more than one primary text, [students’] tendency is … to either illustrate the ways in which the texts make equivalent arguments, or to pit one text/author against the other… I realized that I needed to do more to teach students what it means to bring two texts “into conversation.”