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Professional Responsibility
Certificate Program
Being the Authority Without Being Authoritative
Graduate students and young faculty members are often anxious about their roles as authorities in the classroom. This session provides suggestions for ways to interact with your students so as to maintain your authority but also create relationships that promote learning.
Cultural Diversity in the Classroom
This session will provide information and resources about ways to integrate and address diversity issues in college courses and classrooms.
Dealing with Difficult Students
Having trouble with a student?. This session will discuss ways of dealing with students who disrupt class, dominate discussions, and/or try to usurp the TAs authority.
Dealing With Your Own Biases in the Classroom
We all have biases, but as teachers it is our responsibility to be aware of how our biases can affect how we treat our students and present the content of our courses. This workshop helps teachers think about the way their biases can be handled so as to promote learning and fairness.
Developing an Ethos of Integrity: Intellectual Property, Plagiarism, and the Undergraduate Mind
This session offers techniques for promoting academic integrity in your classroom.
Developing Your Teaching Style
This session is designed to help teachers think about ways they can develop a style of teaching that will better engage their students. Topics will include the ways in which beliefs about teaching and learning affect the classroom dynamic. This session will also consider different types of inquiry, interaction with students, and classroom cultures.
Interacting with Students: Emails, Letters of Recommendation, & Office Hours
This session is designed to help TAs with student interactions outside of the classroom. Topics include effectively handling student emails, making the most of office hours, writing letters of recommendation, and avoiding harassment.
Learning Outcomes: What Do You Want Your Students to Get Out of the Class?
Why do we teach? What are we trying to pass along to our students? This session will help you to focus on what you think students should take away from your class and discuss ways of getting this across.
Making Your Class a Community of Learners
Do you ever imagine that your students are prisoners being forced to attend your class? This session will discuss ways to involve your students in the learning process.
What Goes into Grading?
Grading would seem to be simple, but often, it is not. The multiple factors that can help to determine a student's grade will be discussed and considered in this session.
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