If you have attended a CCTI, the FAST Institute or are working independently on completing the CCT competency, this session is for you. This session is a space for you to work on any part of your CCT. Please come prepared with your draft materials, a task to work on, a concrete question to move you forward and the readiness to move one aspect of your CCT Portfolio forward.

Facilitators: Dr. Stefanie Baier and Dr. Rique Campa

In this workshop you will strengthen your teaching techniques by adopting teaching practices that better align with your values, and you will learn new ways to create and maintain course cultures.

Register and add to your calendar. Zoom Information will be provided closer to the event.

Presenter: Danielle Cadet, Ph.D. Candidate, HDFS

Details coming soon.

Many academic positions require a teaching philosophy statement as one of the application materials to learn about a candidate’s teaching beliefs, values, and use of evidence-based teaching and assessment practices for effective instruction. In this workshop you will learn how to document your teaching and/or teaching professional development experiences to start crafting your teaching philosophy statement with the help of a rubric.

You are a new Graduate Teaching Assistant and have started working with D2L. As you do so, questions about various functions and use are arising. This session is a Q & A session with MSU IT experts on D2L, Gradebook, etc. that will help you navigate the Learning Management System as GTA.

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 

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 

As educators, we are continuously learning and improving our teaching practices. This continuous improvement relies on feedback. In this session, we will share ways instructors can collect feedback from students about teaching. Furthermore, you will learn about how you will get your Student Perceptions of Learning Survey (SPLS) feedback at the end of the semester. You will walk away with an example for collecting feedback during the semester and discuss how to use this feedback for effective instruction.

In this session, participants will explore several educational technology tools and strategies to engage students in learning. Attendees will take away a list of tools ready for immediate use.

Presenter Name and Role: Anara Akhmetova, PhD Candidate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education 

In this session you will learn about MSU approved tech and AI tools available to you with your teaching, managing tasks, and secure use. 

You have the opportunity to ask questions as they apply to any technology and learn about opportunities to advance your technology knowledge.

Presenter: Jason Beaudin, Ph.D., Executive Director for Educational Technology at MS