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Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Applications now open for the Graduate Teaching Academy!

In-person The Graduate Teaching Academy (GTA) is a catalyst for successful undergraduate teaching where students can explore the transferable skills of teaching, bringing their experience beyond the classroom, and is open to ALL Graduate Students who are interested in preparing for careers that involve teaching, inside and outside of academia. The GTA is a place […]

Event Series Equity-Fostering Syllabus Working Group

Equity-Fostering Syllabus Working Group

Hybrid (In-person or virtual)

Hybrid, Biweekly, Fridays from 10:00-11:00am This is a collaborative, faculty-led, practically-oriented community focusing on fostering equity through developing our syllabi and engaging them meaningfully in class. The group will focus not only on “how-to” craft an inclusive/equity-centering syllabus, but how to continue to engage the syllabus throughout the semester toward fostering equity in the classroom […]

Event Series FOR NEW TAs! Teaching Tips and Techniques (TTT)

FOR NEW TAs! Teaching Tips and Techniques (TTT)

CITL - 1st Floor of Fernald Hall 102 Fernald Hall, Orono, ME, United States

In-person The TTT is a learning community where new TAs will learn teaching tips and techniques to support their teaching as well as form relationships with other first-time TAs. This is a community, not a course. Our core meetings will be every other Friday from 12:00-1:30 pm starting September 2nd. *Note* We also have an optional kick-off meeting […]

Event Series Fall 2022 Teaching Gradually Book Club

Fall 2022 Teaching Gradually Book Club

Virtual Location

Virtual meetings (via Zoom) Teaching Gradually: Practical Pedagogy and Classroom Strategies for Graduate Students provides tools, methods, and insights that are  useful in teaching today’s students but are often not explicitly covered in graduate training. Written by graduate teaching assistants, each chapter features topics and approaches in the classroom provided by graduate teaching assistants. Meetings […]

Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice

Hybrid (In-person or virtual)

Hybrid (in-person but can accommodate remote participants) Alternate Wednesdays at 10:00am starting September 7th; opposite Wednesday can be reserved for asynchronous work Innovation in teaching provides exciting opportunities for research and scholarship on teaching practices. In this CoP, we will engage with peer mentoring and feedback as we: explore the fundamentals of the Scholarship of […]

Application Results for GTA Application

The applicants of the Graduate Teaching Academy (GTA) will receive notification of acceptance/waitlist on January 6th, 2023.

Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – Spring 2023

Virtual Location

Virtual  Alternate Thursdays at 3:00-4:00 pm, starting January 19th; opposite Thursdays can be reserved for optional asynchronous/small group work. Innovation in teaching provides exciting opportunities for research and scholarship on teaching practices with topics including the fundamentals of the scholarship of Teaching and Learning, research question identification, SoTL literature, study design, IRB application, common methodologies, […]

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