Graduate Students

Led by Chloe Chapin Do you need a sample syllabus for the job market? If you’ve been offered a faculty position, do you need to start preparing courses to teach in the fall? As you transition from Teaching Fellow to Instructor of Record, how do you shift...

Led by Sarah Emory As a teacher and a scholar, you are called to speak in a variety of contexts, which can be daunting for anyone but may be even more complicated if you speak English as an additional language. What strategies can you use to make it...

Led by Ashlie Sandoval-Lee How can you approach writing a diversity statement, considering your discipline, personal experiences, and social identities? Though an increasing number of search committees ask for diversity statements, guidance about how to...

Led by Jonah Johnson In the best learning experiences, feedback between students and instructors happens early and often. Many writing assignments, by contrast, only involve feedback “after the fact,” with the understanding that the feedback can only be...

Led by Flavia Peréa, Director of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship and Lecturer in Sociology, and Caitlin Schmid, Assistant Director of Engaged Scholarship, Harvard College, Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship How can teaching and...

Led by Tamara Brenner and Anza Mitchell What strategies—inside and outside of the classroom—help students retain information and apply their knowledge to new situations? In this seminar, we will explore how students learn, drawing on neuroscience...

Led by: Rebecca Miller Brown, Assistant Director, Graduate Student Programming, and Caroline Rende​, Interim Associate Director, Graduate Career Services, MCS How do you leverage your teaching experience in your job search? As a teacher you learn so much...

Led by: Pamela Pollock, Director of Professional Development Stay for lunch to discuss how to apply what you learned from Erika Bailey’s Engaged Communication session to practice and get feedback on communicating your research. We consider how the basic...

Led by: Erika Bailey, Head of Voice and Speech, American Repertory Theater; Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media We spend most of our time preparing for class or presentations by focusing on what we need to cover—what we need to SAY. But are we actually...

Led by: Sarah Emory, Assistant Director, International Teachers and Scholars How do our language and cultural backgrounds affect the ways we think about communication? What strategies can we use to communicate clearly in academic and professional settings...