Role and Mission
Location and Contact Information
Oversight
Disability Accommodation

Role and Mission

The Graduate Student Instructor Teaching & Resource Center is an academic unit of the Graduate Division that prepares graduate students for teaching undergraduates at UC Berkeley and for the teaching they will do in future academic and nonacademic careers. We also work closely with faculty and departments to assist them in the mentoring and teaching preparation they offer graduate students. We are guided in our work by the Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs, a sub-committee of the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council that includes both faculty and graduate student members.

We provide conferences, workshops, seminars, confidential consultations, classroom observations (with or without video-recording), grants, awards, an online teaching guide, and a robust web-based course on professional standards and ethics in teaching. We also provide language testing and specialized courses for current and prospective multilingual international GSIs at UC Berkeley. We offer a Certificate Program in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, which provides evidence of GSIs’ development activities as instructors. For advanced graduate students we offer, in collaboration with the Graduate Division’s Graduate Writing Center, the Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty and the SMART program. For faculty who teach with GSIs we offer a seminar on Teaching with GSIs.

Location and Contact Information

GSI Teaching & Resource Center
301 Sproul Hall #5900
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-5900

[email protected]
510-642-4456
Office Hours 9am–12pm, 1–4pm (onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)

GSI Center staff members are available to assist you Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. through the following email addresses:

General Questions on GSI-related Matters: [email protected]

Language Proficiency Program Oral English Testing and Consultations: [email protected].

Oversight

The GSI Center is overseen by the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division and guided by the Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs, a subcommittee of the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council.

Members of the Faculty Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs

Name	Department	Email
Cati de los Ríos, Committee Chair	Education	[email protected]
Ula Taylor	African American Studies	[email protected]
Mary Wildermuth	Plant & Microbial Biology	[email protected]
Justin Davidson	Spanish & Portuguese	[email protected]
Gail Brager	Architecture; Graduate Division Associate Dean	[email protected]
Tina Chow	Civil & Environmental Engineering; Graduate Council Liaison	[email protected]
	Graduate Student (TBD) Graduate Student (TBD)

 

Graduate Student Members

Name	Department	Email
Bashi Mandava	Physics	[email protected]
Chris Geary	English	[email protected]

Disability Accommodation

Conference and Workshop Registration
Pre-registration for most of our events is set up 24/7 on web-based forms. However, if you are unable to register using these forms, please send us an email message at [email protected].

Disability Accommodations for Events
If you require accommodations to take part in one of our events, please contact the GSI Teaching & Resource Center by sending us an email message at [email protected] at least ten days prior to the event.