Please forward this information to anyone you think may be interested.
Is your department interested in helping graduate students learn to teach? Perhaps your department is considering starting a teaching-focused professional development program? Or maybe your department has a program but is interested in updating and enhancing it?
Many departments now offer pre-semester orientations, semester-long seminars, and other opportunities for graduate students who are new to teaching so they will be well-equipped to provide high-quality instruction to undergraduates. With funding from NSF (grant DUE-1432381), we are offering instructional materials and guidance (in the form of a summer workshop) to departments as they establish or revise their graduate student professional development programs.
We (Ginger Shultz, Alena Moon, Eleni Zotos) are offering this workshop for faculty in Chemistry in collaboration with CoMInDS (College Mathematics Instructor Development Source). CoMInDS is an Mathematical Association of America-based project that has offered summer workshop opportunities for faculty for the past seven years to learn how to build a successful program, as well as gain access to a large collection of lessons, activities, and assignments to use at their institutions.
The workshop will be held June 7-9, 2023 on the campus of The University of Maine.
At the workshop, participants will:
- learn how to design a successful graduate student professional development program
- gain familiarity with research and evaluation related to teaching and instructor preparation
- gain access to a large collection of lessons, activities, and assignments to use in your program
- become familiar with activities designed specifically for use with graduate students teaching in your discipline (i.e., mathematics, physics, chemistry)
Built into the schedule for the workshop will be time for participants to:
- plan or revamp their professional development program with input from experienced providers in your discipline
- network with others from around the country who run graduate student professional development programs
Institutions are encouraged to send two-person teams to the workshop (either two people from the same department/discipline or from different departments at the same institution). Funding is available to support participant travel and attendance at the workshop.
To apply for the in-person workshop, go to https://forms.gle/ZnEjjRUHoH1SVGZBA
For more information about CoMInDS, see https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/professional-development/co...
Applications are due March 15. Decisions will be announced by mid April.
Thank you,
Ginger Shultz
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan