Government
2022–2023
Julia Coyoli
For my capstone project, I present the syllabus from Gov3002b, which was taught for the first time in Spring 2023. This year, in the Government Department, we decided to offer an optional second semester to our pedagogy course. In the Fall semester, graduate students learn about the fundamentals of teaching, with a focus on the role of a TF. In the Spring semester, graduate students instead focus on teaching as part of their career.
2021–2022
Julia Coyoli
In my capstone project, I present a unified framework for teaching skills in Government. TFs in Government teach classes that require students to know skills ranging from reading and writing to math and coding. In our pedagogy course I taught TFs a framework for teaching these skills to their students. While I taught different types of skills in separate sessions, I gave TFs a unified framework that they can apply to any course they will teach in the future, regardless of the type of skills needed.
2019–2020
Sarah James
My goal this year was to institutionalize the major changes that I have made to our department pedagogy course so that future PFs can make adjustments but do not have to start from scratch on building out a curriculum. I expanded the number of required sessions for our pedagogy course, developed a series of "choice" sessions for TFs to chose from, and added in explicit connections to inclusion and equity into each session. My Capstone project consists of a scope and sequence with organized spaces for documenting successes and challenges for each session. I also created a timeline of tasks to help future PFs communicate early and often about pedagogy course expectations.