Discipline-Cluster Workshop Descriptions In the discipline-cluster workshop, you will join with other first-time GSIs in similar fields to prepare for your first teaching experience at UC Berkeley. The workshop will focus on topics such as preparing for the semester and first day of class, active learning techniques, and challenging scenarios Continue Reading >>
2019–2020 2018–2019 2017–2018 2016–2017 2015–2016 2019–2020 Recipients Jeremy Adams, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Mapping the Math: Using Concept Maps to Learn Controls Theory Jakob Dahl, Chemistry, Promoting Understanding from Experiments by Visualizing Results in an Introductory Organic Chemistry Lab Natalia Duong, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Normalizing Access and Accommodation in Classrooms **Author Continue Reading >>
by Christian Lambert, Goldman School of Public Policy Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2016 Assessing student work is the household chore of any given course: important and useful, but often begrudged and disparaged, too. As an instructor in an introductory course that many students pursue in order to fulfill pre-requisites for Continue Reading >>
This is a good time to review ways you can encourage students to engage actively in their learning. The online Teaching Guide for GSIs offers excellent strategies to use in a variety of GSI-led settings. Active Learning Techniques Group Work Managing Lab Partners and Groups Encouraging Participation Asking Effective Questions Continue Reading >>
Department of Economics Recipient, Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs Background of the Award Statement of Mentoring Philosophy Excerpts from the GSIs’ Nomination Letters Background of the Award Each spring graduate students are invited to nominate faculty members for the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs. Typically each nomination Continue Reading >>
One of the best resources for graduate students learning to teach is listening to faculty members reflect on teaching. Berkeley boasts a world-class research faculty who are also highly skilled and exemplary teachers. The talks linked below are drawn from teaching conferences for GSIs as well as seminars and workshops Continue Reading >>
This is a good time in the semester to review ways you can encourage students to engage actively in their learning. The online Teaching Guide for GSIs offers some excellent strategies to use in a variety of GSI-led settings. Active Learning Techniques Group Work Managing Lab Partners and Groups Encouraging Continue Reading >>
This page lists the TEA essays by topics that arise frequently in GSIs’ teaching: Grading and Assessment Participation and Discussion Group Work and Collaborative Learning Laboratory and Studio Classes Diverse Learners and Learning Styles Problem Solving Critical Thinking Reading and Writing Research Skills In addition, the tag cloud at right Continue Reading >>
Discipline-Cluster Workshop Descriptions In the discipline-cluster workshop you will join with other first-time GSIs in similar fields to prepare for your first teaching experience at UC Berkeley. The workshop will focus on topics such as preparing for the semester and first day of class, active learning techniques, and challenging scenarios Continue Reading >>
The Teaching Effectiveness Award honors a small number of outstanding graduate student instructors each year who have made a significant contribution to teaching and learning in their departments through identifying and responding to a problem they have encountered in a class, laboratory, or section they have taught. Their contributions are Continue Reading >>