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Summer PROFessional Development is back!

FFSummerProfSeriesOur first meeting of 2016 will be 3:30-4:30 pm on Friday, July 29 in 401 Physical Sciences Building. RSVPs appreciated, but feel free to come to this or any other discussion, whether or not you let us know ahead of time.

Do you love teaching and want that to be a part of your career? Would you like a low-pressure, low-commitment opportunity to pursue that interest over the summer?

Summer PROFessional Development is a community of grad students and postdocs who are interested in teaching in higher education. We’ll meet on Friday afternoons to talk about teaching and how to get a job at a college or university that emphasizes it. We’ll discuss topics such as:

  • Teaching professional development opportunities, from courses to certificates,
  • Communication and listening skills for teaching and mentoring,
  • Diversity in the classroom,
  • Talking to your supervisor about your interest in teaching.

Enhancing and Documenting Your Training in Teaching

Sponsored by the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CU-CIRTL).

Deadline to Apply to CTE Graduate Fellows Program Extended

Are you passionate about teaching? Would you like to become an effective teacher at the college or university level? The Center for Teaching Excellence offers two fellowship programs to all Cornell graduate students.

Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellows (GTAF) develop and implement programs and resources that foster teaching excellence at Cornell University.

Graduate Research and Teaching Fellows (GRTF) develop and implement programs and resources that foster teaching excellence at Cornell University. In addition, they learn to use research strategies to understand, inform and enhance their teaching.

CTE Fellows play a key role in providing leadership and mentoring at Cornell through our GET SET programming, leading workshops at our University-Wide Teaching Conference and presenting research at our Teaching as Research Symposium.

The deadline for 2016-2017 CTE Graduate Fellows Program applications has been extended to April 29th, 2016.

Learn more here.

Teaching as Research Project Findings Shared

Note: Re-posted from the Fall 2015 Graduate School newsletter. Save the date of May 16, 2016 for the 5th Annual Classroom Research and Teaching Symposium!

At a Cornell symposium in May 2015, nearly 30 graduate students presented about their research. Why is that newsworthy? In this case, the research they presented was all about teaching. Now in its fourth year, the 2015 Classroom Research and Teaching Symposium attracted over 60 attendees, including faculty, staff, and graduate students from the University of Rochester, as well as around Cornell.

The Symposium is held at the end of every academic year, bringing together graduate students and faculty who are interested in applying their research skills to develop more effective teaching practices. In addition to the poster and laptop Continue reading