Graduate students come to IUB with a wide range of instructional experience. Whatever level of teaching experience our new Associate Instructors have, we’re confident they can learn something new at our upcoming Associate Instructor Orientation (AIO) series. The CITL’s AIO will provide an overall introduction and socialization to the research-based practices and culture of teaching… Read more »
Small Teaching Online: Lessons from Part 1 of the Book
Small Teaching Online: Lessons from Part 1 of the Book As we’re preparing to teach summer course online, many of us are looking for easy tips and tricks to improve our instructional practices. The CITL has been sponsoring reading groups of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby and James… Read more »
Supporting Sudden Online Teaching as an Associate Instructor
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. If you’re an Associate Instructor (AI) in a course that is being moved online quickly because of a campus closure or emergency, you… Read more »
Experienced AIs – We want your voice at fall AI Orientation!
Can you remember the feeling of being an Associate Instructor (AI) for the first time at IUB? Most of us feel nervous before teaching a new class – stomach jitters, sweaty palms, trying to remind ourselves why we wanted to go to grad school. Being a bit nervous before teaching is normal and the Center… Read more »
Graduate Students – Get Oriented to Teaching at IU!
We’re occasionally asked if we offer spring versions of our day-long Associate Instructor Orientation or Classroom Climate Workshop. While we don’t replicate these programs at the start of the spring semester, we are offering various workshops in early January that will introduce graduate student instructors to some foundational skills for teaching. If the following options… Read more »
The ways in which hunger and homelessness may affect our classrooms
When we consider the ways in which our classrooms are diverse, many of us first think of what we consider to be “visible” identities. These often include identity factors such as race and gender, both of which may or may not be “visible” depending on a variety of contexts. Many people may not consider students… Read more »