Award Programs
Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs
The Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs is an annual award presented to a faculty member who has provided outstanding pedagogical mentorship to GSIs. It is sponsored by the Graduate Council’s Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs and the GSI Teaching & Resource Center.
Nominate a Mentor for the Award
If you are a graduate student wishing to nominate one of your faculty mentors, or you want further information about the award, please visit the mentor nomination page.
Previous Years’ Recipients and Their Mentoring Philosophies
A full list of UC Berkeley faculty who have received the Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs appears on the Recipients page.
Additionally, those who have won the award are invited to provide a statement of their mentoring philosophy for publication on the GSI Center website. These are linked from the Recipients page.
GSI Center Programs and Services
- Teaching Conference for First-Time GSIs
- GSI Professional Standards and Ethics Online Course
- Workshops, Seminars, and Institutes
- Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Certificate Program Requirements
- Required Workshops
- Qualifying Pedagogy Seminars
- Classroom Teaching Observation for the Certificate Program
- Mid-Semester Teaching Evaluation for the Certificate Program
- Frequently Asked Questions about the Certificate Program
- Enroll in the Certificate Program in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Grant Programs
- The How Students Learn Project
- The How Students Learn Working Group and Speaker Series
- Daniela Kaufer: What can Neuroscience Research Teach Us about Teaching?
- Jean Lave, Learning as a Socially Situated Activity
- Rosemary Joyce: Remarks on Legitimate Peripheral Participation
- Arthur Shimamura: Active Learning AND Testing: The Key to Long-Lasting Memories
- John Kihlstrom: How Students Learn: A Perspective from Cognitive and Social Psychology
- Martin Covington: Why Students Learn and (Sometimes) Don’t Learn
- Lawrence Lowery: Effective Teaching for Effective Learning
- Kathleen Metz: The Interplay of Conceptual Understanding and Engagement in Disciplinary Practices
- Alan Schoenfeld: Learning to Think Mathematically (or like a scientist, or like a writer, or…)
- Applying the Research to Teaching
- Select Bibliography on How Students Learn
- About the How Students Learn Project
- The How Students Learn Working Group and Speaker Series
- Language Proficiency Program
- How to Satisfy the Oral English Proficiency Requirement for a GSI Appointment
- Language Proficiency Questionnaire
- The Oral Proficiency Test (OPT)
- Oral English Proficiency Testing: Frequently Asked Questions
- Oral English Proficiency Testing: Key Deadlines for Students and Departments
- Support for Multilingual Students
- Consultations with GSI Center Staff
- Award Programs
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
- OGSI Recipients 1998-1999
- OGSI Recipients 1999-2000
- OGSI Recipients 2000-2001
- OGSI Recipients 2001-2002
- OGSI Recipients 2002-2003
- OGSI Recipients 2003-2004
- OGSI Recipients 2004-2005
- OGSI Recipients 2005-2006
- OGSI Recipients 2006-2007
- OGSI Recipients 2007-2008
- OGSI Recipients 2008-2009
- OGSI Recipients 2009-2010
- OGSI Recipients 2010-2011
- OGSI Recipients 2011-2012
- OGSI Recipients 2012-2013
- OGSI Recipients 2013-2014
- OGSI Recipients 2014-2015
- OGSI Recipients 2015-2016
- OGSI Recipients 2016-2017
- OGSI Recipients 2017-2018
- OGSI Recipients 2018-2019
- OGSI Recipients 2019-2020
- OGSI Recipients 2020-2021
- OGSI Recipients 2021-2022
- OGSI Recipients 2022-2023
- Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs
- Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs
- Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs: The Nomination Process
- Award Recipients and Their GSI Mentoring Statements
- Joseph J. Duggan
- Martin Berman
- Michael Clancy
- Kevis Goodman
- Gail Offen-Brown
- Stephen Tobriner
- Dana Buntrock
- John McNamara
- Steven Vogel
- Janet Adelman
- Michelle Douskey
- Paul Groth
- John Hurst
- Robin Einhorn
- Nikolaus Euba
- Jeffery Winer
- Seda Chavdarian
- Steven Goldsmith
- Claire Kramsch
- Lisa Little
- Gillian Hart
- Margaretta Lovell
- Lisa Pruitt
- Robert Reich
- Gordon Silverstein
- Garrison Sposito
- Susan Muller
- Patina Mendez
- Penelope Edwards
- Lynn Huntsinger
- Sabrina Agarwal
- David Henkin
- Martha Olney
- Anant Sahai
- Rodolfo John Alaniz
- Gail Brager
- Kathryn De Master
- Steven Justice
- Angela Marino
- Julia Bryan-Wilson
- Khalid Kadir
- Clayton Radke
- Robert Sharf
- Teagle Foundation Award for Excellence in Enhancing Student Learning
- Learning from the Periphery: Collaboration and the Uses of History
- How Research on Student Learning Explains the Effectiveness of Empirically Driven Classroom Activities
- Well, Isn’t That Humerus? Biological and Cognitive Changes through Making Learning Meaningful
- What’s in Your Chair? Enhancing Student Learning using Case-Based Encoding Strategies
- Tweeting Sociological Theory as Situated Learning
- Prompting Critical Thinking through Metacognition and Electronic Scheduling
- Constructing Live Knowledge from Dead Civilizations
- Thinking like a Chemist: Enculturation, Disciplinary Practice, and Problem-Solving
- Awards for GSIs and their Faculty Mentors: Frequently Asked Questions
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award