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Using Growth Mindset to Improve Teaching and Learning

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Led by: Anza Mitchell, Assistant Director, Science Pedagogy Growth mindset—the belief that your skills and intelligence are malleable and can be improved with hard work and practice—has been shown to be a vital aspect of learning. In this session, we will...

Responding to Student Writing Efficiently and Effectively

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Led by: Jonah Johnson, Assistant Director for Writing Pedagogy; Head Preceptor in the Writing Program Is giving feedback on papers totally new to you? Or have you graded a thousand papers but have questions about keeping your feedback as accurate...

Teaching in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

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Led by: Adam Beaver, Director of Pedagogy The emergence of generative A.I. has the potential to change how we learn, how we teach, and how we work. How can we design our courses to help students learn about and be prepared to engage with a future that...

The Top 4 Teaching Challenges … and How to Address Them

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Led by: Chloe Chapin, Assistant Director, Course Design How do I plan a section? What’s a good in-class activity? How do I grade this assignment? How should I start planning a sample syllabus for the job market? As an instructor, your challenge is to...

Motivating Your Students and Yourself: A Lunch Discussion with Experienced TFs

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Led by: Lee Cannon-Brown, Bok Pedagogy Fellow, and other experienced TFs During the busy semester, it can be difficult to find the energy to stay motivated and to keep your students engaged too! Connecting with your peers and seeking out teaching mentors...

Make Your Move: Teaching Discussion as a Skill

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Led by: Rebecca Miller Brown, Assistant Director, Graduate Student Programming In many disciplines, students are meant to learn from “doing the reading,” discussing it in class, and then writing a paper or doing a project about it. How can we make the...

Problems and P-Sets: Designing and Teaching Problems in STEM

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Led by: Anza Mitchell, Assistant Director, Science Pedagogy Do you want to design problems that will help your students develop their critical thinking skills and understand your course content better? How do you help students learn how to do the problems...

Navigating Challenging Moments in the Classroom

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Led by: Ashlie Sandoval-Lee, Assistant Director, Equity & Inclusion Challenging moments can emerge even in the best-designed courses. Instructors and students might be tasked with engaging with materials or comments that conflict with their worldview...

Building Your Communication Skills as an International Scholar

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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...

Public Speaking: Connecting with your Audience through Voice and Movement

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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...

Communicating Your Research: A Lunch Discussion

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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...

Teaching and Your Career

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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...