Are you a graduate student passionate about excellence in teaching and learning? Are you hungry for professional development and transformation of your leadership skills? If so, then join the Graduate Association for Teaching Enhancement (GATE), a teaching initiative developed by graduate students for graduate students with the support from The Graduate School, GSGA, and CET&L.

Here's what we're about:

• Create, strengthen and facilitate new and existing workshops/seminars:
  • Teach Me to Teach: Pedagogical Seminar
  • Showcasing Your Teaching for the Job Search
  • Developing Your Teaching Philosophy
  • Practical Application of Innovative Teaching Methods
• Plan and attend biweekly committee meetings:
  • When: Wednesdays 4-5 PM (spring: 2/27, 3/13, 3/27, 4/10, 4/17),
    
    • Summer - once a month, 4-5:30 PM: 5/15, 6/19, 7/17, 8/21
      
  • Where: CET&L room 480D (located in Lagsam Library)
• Strengthen and develop innovative teaching techniques in your pedagogical practice
• Cultivate networking opportunities with fellow graduate students who share a common vision in teaching and learning excellence

Your involvement with GATE will look great on your CV!

If interested, please contact us via email: gateatuc@gmail.com

More about our workshops

Developing Your Teaching Philosophy

Whether you are interested in finding a teaching assistantship, considering how to teach your courses next year, or applying for teaching positions after graduation, having a teaching philosophy is vitally important. It is essentially a statement about your beliefs, values and practices around teaching. Not sure that you have a “teaching philosophy”? Don’t know where to begin? Do you have some ideas but not sure how to put them together? Then this workshop is for you! This interactive workshop for graduate students will cover the basics about teaching philosophies—the who, what, how and why’s—and give you the chance to draft and peer review your teaching philosophy statement. Workshop attendees do not need to come with a statement ready, but should be prepared to leave with a draft in hand!

Spring: Thursday, April 4th 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. in room 475 (Langsam Library)

Registration: click here

TEACH ME TO TEACH: Pedagogical Preparation Seminar

It is increasingly common for graduate students in PhD programs to assume the role of independent instructor rather than teaching assistant. Surprisingly, however, they do so with very little formal training (Gaia et al. 2003; Nyquist et al. 1999). This day-long workshop will provide graduate student instructors with the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities which will help to answer questions like: “How can I structure my syllabus so that students get excited about this course?”, “What do I want my students to learn?”, “How can I appropriately assess student progress?” and “What challenges do I face as an instructor?". More importantly, the goal of the seminar is to provide current graduate teaching instructors, and soon be to be instructors, with the skills and critical understanding necessary to promote undergraduate learning both here at UC and in their ongoing careers.

Spring: Tuesday, April 23rd 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in room 480D (CET&L)

Registration: click here