Recap: Graduate Student Workshop on Metacognition
Christina Michaud and Melanie Smith explained how simple metacognitive exercises can benefit both students and instructors without generating more grading.
Graduate Student Workshop: Using Metacognition in the Classroom to Increase Student Community and Learning
Explore strategies for prompting students to reflect on their learning, address their fears of failure, and assess themselves and their peers.
CTL’s Graduate Assistants and Associates
This semester, five wonderful graduate students are helping the CTL to provide support to the graduate student teaching community at BU. Graduate Assistants Federica Bocchi (Philosophy), Maya Chakravorty (Classical Studies), and Maria Valadez Ingersoll (Cellular and Molecular Biology) joined us this month, and Graduate Associates Phillippa Pitts (History of Art and Architecture) and Sarah […]
Graduate students: come learn and connect with other graduate students and CTL staff this fall!
Graduate students: welcome back! Come learn and connect with other grad students and CTL staff this fall. Here are some of the ways you can get involved: attend a workshop on Lesson Planning; join a Learning Community, co-facilitated by PDPA, on inclusive teaching in STEM courses; and work with us through the Graduate Assistant program. We look forward to […]
Supporting Graduate Students as Teachers
The CTL, with help from our Graduate Teaching Consultants (GTCs), offers a variety of programs and services designed to help graduate students grow as teachers and connect with a cross-disciplinary community of peer instructors.
Graduate Student Teaching Fund
The Center for Teaching & Learning is delighted to announce the Graduate Student Teaching Fund to assist graduate student instructors with expenses associated with teaching their own course in Spring 2021. Please check here for more information about application details and the approved list of resources.