All graduate students working as Summer Teaching Associates are invited to join the Summer Teaching Institute for Associates. This pre-summer program will provide assistance in planning and conducting your summer course through online and face-to-face modules and small mentoring groups. Register now at oic.id.ucsb.edu/stia-summer-teaching-institute-associates.
Program Details
Module 1: Planning Your Summer Sessions Course
Topics: Course design, learning outcomes, lecturing, concerns of first time associates, lesson planning. Associates are asked to prepare a draft teaching philosophy statement, three to five main goals for the course being taught, as well as a draft of the course syllabus.
Mode: This will run online in GauchoSpace. The site will be open to associates from late April through August, 2012, with the most intense period of online activity (with some synchronous activities and some deadlines) occurring in a 2-week period between May 18 and June 1.
Module 2: Teaching & Assessment
Topics: Instructional strategies for fostering collaboration and interaction in a variety of contexts; assessment and evaluation; technologies for student learning, professional development, last minute concerns.
Modes: A selection of more than 15 different Pedagogy, Technology, and Professional Development workshops will be offered between May and August, some designed for broad disciplinary groups (Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM). To complete STIA Module 2, you are required to attend or complete any five of these face-to-face and online options.
Mentoring
Associates will have at least four meetings with a departmental faculty mentor in a mentoring circle to discuss the concerns and issues that inevitably arise when teaching a course, and to offer each other suggestions for strategies and what to do differently. The day and time of sessions with be decided by the members of each mentoring circle.
STIA also satisfies requirement #2 of the Certificate in College and University Teaching (CCUT)—to qualify you must complete both STIA Modules and attend all four mentoring meetings.
For information about the STIA program and to register, go to http://oic.id.ucsb.edu/stia-summer-teaching-institute-associates. There is no registration deadline, but please register as soon as possible.
For questions about STIA, please contact Dr. Kim DeBacco at kim@id.ucsb.edu.
See our previous coverage of the STIA program here: Summer Sessions Expands Mentor Program for Teaching Associates.