GradSTEP: Graduate Student Teaching Event for Professional Development
GradSTEP was held Saturday, January 25th. See the resources section of this page to view material from this year’s presentations.
GradSTEP is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Council
graduate & professional students, and post-doctoral fellows, GradSTEP is a free, daylong conference, offering workshops and discussions centered on teaching, learning, and professional development issues, across the disciplines.
REGISTER FOR GRADSTEP. Additional slots now open for each workshop!
Schedule of Events
9:00 |
Check-in |
9:30 |
Opening Remarks |
9:45 |
Plenary: Students as producers: Developing dynamic learning in a virtual and real-world setting |
11:00 |
Session 1 Workshops (See choices below) |
12:00 |
Lunch (provided for registrants only) |
1:00 |
Session 2 Workshops (See choices below) |
2:15 |
Session 3 Workshops (See choices below) |
3:30 |
GradSTEP ends |
GradSTEP 2014 Workshop Offerings
To register, review the following workshop options and enter your choices here.
Session One
Service LearningJoe Bandy, CFT Assistant Director Service learning is a pedagogy that combines the learning goals of your courses and the ideals of community service in class projects that can enhance both student development and the common good. This session will provide opportunities for participants to explore service learning in their own teaching by reviewing the research on the promise and problems of service learning, and by discussing best practices that make service learning more efficient and effective.
Bernadette Doykos, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow
Derek Bruff, CFT Director
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Andrew Greer, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow
This session introduces graduate students to investigations of learning as a form of scholarly research. Participants will workshop various types of data, or evidence of student learning, from higher education classrooms to consider potential SoTL projects.
Session Two
Cynthia Brame, CFT Assistant Director
Joel Barnett, Associate Professor of the Practice, Mechanical Engineering
This workshop will examine a research project and a design project that have been integrated into credit-bearing courses. Professor Joel Barnett will talk about “turning the textbook inside out” to create small design projects, and Dr. Cynthia Brame will discuss her experience adapting small chunks of a research project for a class. These examples will be used to illustrate key lessons for integration of research and design projects into an undergraduate curriculum. Workshop participants will discuss benefits and challenges of integrating research and design into classes as it applies to their future courses.
Professional Development for Humanities Social Science Education & Religion
Ruth Schemmer, Assistant Dean, Graduate School
Graduate students are competent, hard-working, intelligent people – but many feel inadequate when seeking a career. Explore what skills are needed in the world of work, how to find out what they are, and how to prove you have them!
Active Student Learning at the Introductory Level
Nayana Bose, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow
We lecture, they listen. They study, we test. This session will workshop howto engage students to generate active student participation, receive regular feedback using quick and effective methods, and get students to apply the material to deepen their understanding of the subject.
Oscar Ayala, Graduate Teaching Fellow
Team-based learning is one way to implement the flipped classroom. Students prepare before class by reading or watching instructor-prepared videos and complete individual readiness assessment tests. The interesting part occurs in class: students repeat the assessment test as groups, who argue, teach each other, and ultimately reach a greater understanding of the material. These groups then apply that knowledge by completing projects that are real-world illustrations of the material. This interactive session will allow participants to learn this technique from the perspective of both the instructor and the student.
Session Three
Jessica Riviere, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow
In this workshop we will explore the basics of using Wiki technology for students to complete online collaborative projects. What is a wiki? Where can you find them? When is a wiki appropriate? How have wikis been used effectively?
Bernadette Doykos and Andrew Greer, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellows
As instructors, we often introduce difficult topics as an essential part of our curriculum, which requires extra planning and preparation. This session addresses the conditions that foster comfort and respect required for students to engage productively with complex topics, such as race, class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and sexuality. This session introduces participants to an array of tools to help facilitate difficult discussions and to think about how to introduce such topics into the higher-ed classroom.
Professional Development for STEM
Ruth Schemmer, Assistant Dean, Graduate School
Graduate students are competent, hard-working, intelligent people – but many feel inadequate when seeking a career. Explore what skills are needed in the world of work, how to find out what they are, and how to prove you have them!
Interactive Lecturing in Large Classrooms
Karen Childress and Mary Keithly, CFT Graduate Teaching Affiliates
This workshop will highlight ideas about how to bring a large classroom to life by going beyond the lecturing format. After discussing some ideas and tips pertaining to the topic, participants will be given the opportunity to plan a sample activity, which would apply to a large class that they would like to teach in the future. Feedback from peers will provide ideas for improvement and expansion of the prepared activity.
Resources from past GradSTEP Events
After the event you can find resources for each workshop (including handouts and powerpoint slides) that will be available to download.
Students as Producers Plenary with Cynthia Cyrus and Joe Bandy
- Environmental Inequality and Justice Syllabus
- Derek Bruff’s sketchnotes from Joe Bandy’s GradSTEP plenary
- Derek Bruff’s sketchnotes from Cynthia Cyrus’ GradSTEP plenary
Public Facing Scholarship Plenary
– Using Wikis
Service Learning
Interactive Lecturing in Large Classes
Team-based Learning
Professional Development for STEM
– Interdisciplinarity in the Classroom
View the Prezi
PowerPoint
View the Prezi
Powerpoint
Powerpoint
View the Prezi
Handout – Teaching Statements
Handout – Possible Components
View the Prezi
Handouts from Lori Rafter and Michelle Sulikowski
Handout
Powerpoint
Powerpoint and Handout
Powerpoint, Handout – 6 Essential Skills, Handout – Productive Discussions, and Handout – Discussion Planning
Powerpoint and Handout
Book excerpt and Handout
Handout – Samples, Handout – Refining Thesis Statements, and Handout – Academic Voice
Resources
Teaching in a Lab Setting
Show and Tell: Using Visual Thinking in the Classroom on Prezi
Creating Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Classrooms
Effective & Efficient Teaching
Five Minutes to a Better Classroom
Further Resources
Managing Your Time and Finding Balance
Finding the Time to Teach
Comparative Essay
Math Problems
Rubrics
Creating A Teaching Persona
Educational Settings
Teaching Strategies
Teach Science to non-science students
Planning to Motivate
Theory Motivating Students
Resource Packet
Syllabus Construction
CATs
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Privilege and Power in the Classroom
Who am I
On the Invisibility of Privilege
Case Studies
Download resources from Alternative Assessment
Alternative Assessment