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GSI Teaching & Resource Center
  • Basics for GSIs
  • Advancing Your Skills
  • Programs & Services
    • Teaching Conference for First-Time GSIs
    • GSI Ethics Online Course
    • Workshops, Seminars, & Institutes
    • Certificate in Teaching & Learning
    • Grant Programs
    • The How Students Learn Project
    • Language Proficiency Program
    • Consultations with GSI Center Staff
    • Award Programs
  • Teaching Guide for GSIs
    • Pre-Semester Preparation
    • Teaching Discussion Sections
    • Facilitating Laboratory Sections
    • Teaching Reading & Composition
    • Evaluating & Improving Your Teaching
    • Working with Student Writing
    • Teaching Critical Reading
    • Grading Student Work
    • Academic Misconduct: Cheating, Plagiarism, & Other Forms
    • Teaching with Technology
    • Learning: Theory & Research
    • Fostering Your Professional Development
    • Campus Resources for Teaching & Learning
  • GSI Online Library
    • Award-Winning GSI Teaching Ideas
    • Language & Teaching Resources for International GSIs
    • How Students Learn
    • Workshop Handouts & Videos
    • GSI Teaching Gallery
    • Faculty Talks on Teaching for GSIs
  • Faculty Resources
    • Teaching with GSIs
    • Support for Pedagogy Courses for First-Time GSIs
    • Faculty Advisers for GSI Affairs & Professional Developers of GSIs
    • Core Policies Related to GSIs
  • FAQs
  • About Us

Teaching with GSIs

Ideas presented in this section are intended to help you work well with GSIs, provide an overall effective learning experience for your students, and assist GSIs in developing their teaching skills.

How to Work Well with GSIs: Faculty and GSI Perspectives

  • Teaching with GSIs: A Checklist for Faculty (pdf)
  • GSI Mentoring for Remote Instruction
  • Ideas from Faculty on How to Work Effectively with GSIs
  • Statements of Mentoring Philosophy from Outstanding Faculty Mentors of GSIs
  • What Good Mentoring Looks Like to a First-Time GSI
  • Suggestions from Experienced GSIs

Campus Policies Pertaining to Your Work with GSIs

  • Graduate Council Policy on Appointments and Mentoring of GSIs (full text pdf)
  • Employment Contract for GSIs, Readers, and Tutors
  • Guide to Graduate Policy, Section H, Appointments
  • Graduate Appointments Handbook

Additional Resources to Assist You in Your Work with GSIs

  • Conducting Productive Classroom Observations of GSIs
  • Annual Faculty Seminar on Teaching with GSIs
  • Teaching with Graduate Student Instructors in Large Enrollment Courses (pdf)
  • Campus Resources to Recommend to GSIs
  • Faculty Resources
    • Teaching with GSIs
      • GSI Mentoring for Remote Instruction
      • Ideas from Faculty on Working Effectively with GSIs
      • What Good Mentoring Looks Like to a First-Time GSI
      • Working Well with GSIs: Suggestions from Experienced GSIs
      • Conducting Productive Classroom Observations of GSIs
      • Annual Faculty Seminar on Teaching with GSIs
    • Support for Pedagogy Courses for First-Time GSIs
    • Faculty Advisors for GSI Affairs
    • Core Policies Related to GSIs

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