Audience: New International Graduate Teaching Assistants and Students 

In this session new international graduate and professional students and those with teaching assistantships will receive information and guidance about how to best navigate their first few weeks at MSU. 

Presenters:

Dangkamol Wongthanaroj

Deepak James

Savior Kitcher

Temilade Adegoke 

Dr. Stefanie Baier 

Join us for a gathering to celebrate GREAT’s 2nd Anniversary!

The GREAT Team and Advisory Group invite you to join us and our GTA/P Teaching Learning Community to share your favorite teaching moments, new ideas that have helped your growth as an educator and new ways to continue your path and as a developing educator. Lunch will be provided. 

Organized by the GREAT Office and Advisory Group

This workshop introduces fundamental course design practices plus a theoretical framework for curriculum and pedagogy. After a brief overview and discussion, participants will collaborate on a series of design exercises, with the aim of creating a sketch or rough schematic for a full-scale course offering.

Presenter: Dr. Michael Lockett, Associate Director, Integrated Arts and Humanities

The Leadership Showcase is the annual celebration of the Leadership Fellows Program. Leadership Fellows are graduate and professional students who form a community of leaders from across campus that are deeply committed to creating positive change.

During this Showcase, the 2025-26 Teaching Cohort Fellows this year's fellows from nine graduate school sponsored Teaching Cohort Fellowship will present their projects. 

Light snacks and drinks will be provided. 

Can developing student-teacher relationships address our anxieties about AI? When we shift the focus from controlling student behaviors to nurturing their curiosity and desire to connect, we reveal a realm of teaching strategies, course designs, and learning activities that remind us why we are educators. AI affords expediency and efficiency; these values do not have to characterize the entire learning experience. During this workshop, we will revisit our AI concerns through the lens of relational ethics and develop strategies to design, teach, and learn differently.

If you have attended the CCTI or any of our workshops for preparing a Teaching Statement, or Research Statement, this Scaffolding session is for you!

Please join us to continue progressing on your materials. Prior to joining, please identify your needs and set goals to complete your work. Provide your questions in the comment box of the registration form and we will be sure to have an answer and provide resources and feedback. We will also share a Portfolio Template with you.

Workshop Facilitators: Dr. Stefanie Baier and Dr. Rique Campa 

Join President Guskiewicz in celebrating graduate and professional students with breakfast and conversation.

Registration is required.

Please join Provost Laura Lee McIntyre in celebrating graduate & progressional students with an afternoon of snacks and conversation.

Registration is required.

In this collaborative session between GREAT and Grad Career Services, you have the opportunity to learn tips and tricks from deciphering the job ad to working on your materials (CV, Teaching and Research Statement, Cover Letter). 

Come prepared with any questions you may have. Bring any materials for which you want feedback, and you will leave with ways to successfully land your GREAT future position. 

Facilitators: LJ Shakleford, Emma Stolinas, Stefanie Baier, Dangkamol Wongthanaroj