Congratulations to our 2021 Award Recipients!
Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients of the Outstanding GSI (OGSI) Award, and the Teaching Effectiveness Award (TEA).
Congratulations to our 2021 Outstanding GSI Award Recipients!
Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients of the Outstanding GSI (OGSI) Award.
Resource: Academic Accommodations Hub
The Academic Accommodations Hub is an online campus resource that contains important information and guidance for instructors and students on classroom climate, academic integrity and honor code, academic accommodations, support resources, and conflict resolution and troubleshooting.
Teaching and the Election
GSIs play an important role in demonstrating an ethic of care to students who are currently dealing with multiple sources of significant stress. The following resources provide specific steps GSIs can take to assist students and their learning leading up to and following the election: A blog post from…
Fall Start-Up Information
Welcome, GSIs! The GSI Center has created materials specific to the needs of new and continuing GSIs who will be teaching remotely. After reviewing the checklists for Getting Started, head on over to the new GSI Remote Teaching Hub linked from this home page to get started. We also recommend …
First-time GSIs: Checklist for Getting Started in Remote Teaching
This checklist, produced and refined for remote instruction by your fellow GSIs, will help you prepare for your first teaching assignment, work well throughout the semester with faculty and peers, and lay the groundwork for engaging your students and addressing their needs.
Continuing GSIs: Checklist and Resources for Getting Started in Remote Instruction
For continuing GSIs, fundamentals about good teaching such as active learning, student inclusion, and providing timely and productive feedback on learning are in place. We now point you to a checklist and resources you can use as you prepare for translating those skills to the online environment.
Fall Workshops on Teaching
(See Spring Workshops.) The GSI Center’s Workshops on Teaching for GSIs cover a wide variety of topics related to university teaching and the GSI experience. The purpose of the series is to offer GSIs, and other graduate students interested in teaching, opportunities for hands-on learning and…
Resources for Teaching Remotely as a GSI
As a first step, be sure to speak directly with the faculty member in charge of your course (Instructor of Record) to ensure that the practices you adopt in teaching remotely are aligned with the instructor’s learning goals for the course.Step-by-Step Guide in Using Zoom to Lead Discussion SectionsHave…
Keep Teaching
On the Keep Teaching website (Research, Teaching, and Learning Services), learn about effective strategies, resources, and best practices and keep apprised of campus policies.