Name: Spring Quarter Kickoff for Social Sciences TAs & Grad Student Instructors
Start: 2023-04-04T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-04-04T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Mudd Library

Spring Quarter Kickoff for Social Sciences TAs & Grad Student Instructors

Join other graduate students and postdocs to discuss timely topics in teaching and learning.Our highly interactive workshops and events integrate the latest research and theory on student learning with best teaching practices. Our workshops are led by Searle Center staff, Graduate Teaching Fellows, and Workshop Leaders and aim to help graduate TAs and instructors address key issues within and across their disciplines.Workshops are always free to attend, but registration is requested.

Searle Center - Graduate and Postdoctoral Learning

Join us to prepare for teaching or TAing in the Social Sciences during spring quarter!

Mudd Library

A﻿re you a graduate student or postdoc teaching or TAing for the first time at Northwestern this spring quarter? Then this session is for you! During this 2-hour session, experienced graduate student instructors Camille Saucier and Sino Esthappan will present interactive workshops on &quot;Fostering Inclusion &amp; Student Belonging in the Social Sciences&quot; and &quot;Providing Constructive Student Feedback in the Social Sciences.&quot; Searle Center staff will also provide a brief overview of campus resources to support graduate student instruction and an open Q&amp;A session with Camille, Sino, and Searle staff.

Agenda

The goal of this session is to discuss fundamental concepts of inclusive teaching, while providing you with concrete strategies to incorporate inclusion into your classroom—whether you are a grading TA, discussion section leader, or instructor of record. In this section, we emphasize that you are working with specific individuals, not an idealized version of what students ‘ought’ to be. Your students will bring a variety of backgrounds, personalities, abilities, preconceptions and strengths to the class. This session encourages you to start from a place of curiosity about your students to create a course environment that provides equitable access and opportunity for success.

Fostering Inclusion & Student Belonging in the Social Sciences 

This workshop is geared toward social science instructors who provide feedback on essays and papers. Participants will be coached on effectively using writing revision strategies that enhance their students’ voice, communication skills, and dignity. Lessons learned will be applied to a guided activity in which participants model active learning in the delivery of feedback on an example social science essay.

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