Orientation socializes your new graduate students to the expectations, policies, and resources of your program. Graduate students also learn about their teaching responsibilities within the context of disciplinary and departmental norms. We hope you will incorporate into your teaching orientation plans two campus opportunities for graduate students to develop their teaching. Associate Instructor Workshop on… Read more »
Teaching Development Pathways for Graduate Students
Graduate students at Indiana University Bloomington have many opportunities to learn about, practice, improve upon, reflect on, and document their teaching activities. These teaching development activities are found in many places around campus – from programs in individual departments to centers like the Graduate Mentoring Center (GMC) and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning… Read more »
Extra! Extra! Read All about It! Science in the Classroom from the ScIU blog!
Because science is often written about for a skilled adult audience that is well-versed with a particular scientific subject, it can be challenging to make scientific literature accessible to our undergraduates. Often, it seems that doing so will mean hours of scouring the literature, more hard work to boil down complex points, and, despite an… Read more »
Taking the Equity Pulse in the Classroom
Pt. 1: Gender Equity in Student-Teacher Interactions A special guest post by Katrina Overby, Katie Kearns, and Maureen Biggers Gender-equitable classroom practices allow an inclusive range of perspectives to be presented, and they can positively impact the individual and collective growth of students. Yet several nationwide studies report that faculty members exhibit subconscious gender-biased behavior… Read more »
You Are Cordially Invited: A Wedding Dressing Ceremony as a Learning Opportunity
In connection with the College’s fall 2017 semester theme, “Diversity, Difference, Otherness,” we have been thinking about ways we can teach about these themes by connecting classroom instruction with cultural centers. We talked with Sarah Hatcher from the Mathers Museum about her ideas and suggestions. Q: How could a faculty member design an exercise around… Read more »
Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Teaching Experiences
Images and objects surround us in our everyday lives—from the advert on the bus to the heirloom in our grandmother’s living room—but are often left out of the classroom. Objects and photos engage students across many disciplines (education, anthropology, history, sociology, languages, etc.). By learning to look critically and evaluate an object’s construction and use,… Read more »