Virtual Talk Join us for our next talk in TLL’s 2023-24 Speaker Series Many students across different demographic groups highly value opportunities to advance their knowledge and skills (agentic goals) and fulfill a larger purpose that contributes to the world and solves social problems (communal goals). However, STEM fields are often stereotyped as careers that […]
Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools Justin Reich, Associate Professor, Comparative Media Studies/Writing and director of MIT Teaching Systems Lab, will hold a talk on his newest book, Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools. This event will be held on Tuesday, October 3 at MIT Bartos Theatre (E15-070), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA […]
Dr. Julie Dangremond Stanton, Associate Professor of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia Artwork by danjazzia on Envato Elements When students with disabilities transition to college, they become solely responsible for accessing and using their accommodations for the first time, which requires self-advocacy. Although self-advocacy is considered an essential skill for the success of students with […]
About the Program The Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP) is an interactive workshop series intended for late-program graduate students and postdocs interested in academic careers or developing skills to support their teaching at MIT. To learn more, review the program schedule, and find answers to frequently asked questions, please see our dedicated KTCP page. How […]
Everyone has faced challenges. Everyone has a story. Flipping Failure want to hear yours! Join us for Flipping Failure's IAP 2024 Storytelling Workshop Series! The workshop series will be a guided process of reflection and discovery to craft and record your unique story in a small cohort of MIT undergraduate and graduate students. You do […]
The Subject Design Track is a sequence of three 2-hour interactive workshops focused on course design.
Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Senior Associate Director for Teaching and Learning in the Center for Faculty Excellence, Simmons University Co sponsored by DoingWell at MIT Join us for the final talk of the semester, with the option to attend a viewing in the Wellbeing Lab located in the newly renovated Student Center. When you ask people […]
IAP 2024 Teaching Days: Monday, January 29, through Friday, February 2. Before the start of each semester, TLL offers a series of workshops for TAs and teacher trainees to help them prepare for the roles and responsibilities of the position of teaching at MIT. Topics include giving feedback, presenting a class session, and facilitating office […]
Come learn about how SLR can be leveraged to collaboratively plan goals for the semester with your mentees and support mentees in the development of key metacognitive skills!
What do we need to infuse climate into our courses? Join Sandra Goldmark (Barnard College and Columbia Climate School) for a discussion about climate-responsive teaching in almost any discipline. Goldmark will share her experiences incorporating climate concepts into her theatre courses; expanding climate teaching at Barnard College; and piloting a Climate Ready curriculum at the Columbia Climate School. Participants will be invited to share their own interdisciplinary climate teaching experiences and provide feedback on the Climate Ready framework.
About the Program The Lesson Planning Track is a sequence of 3 workshops focused on preparing an effective lesson plan for a class session or recitation, developing skills for classroom presentation and effective classroom activities, and giving formative feedback to students. Over the course of the workshop track, participants develop a detailed lesson plan on […]
Dr. Bryan Dewsbury will explore the ways in which we can reconnect our classroom practice with the values, behaviors and mindsets needed for a socially just society.
In this talk, we will explore the ways in which instructors can foster student engagement in active learning by emphasizing the relevance of content, setting norms that encourage mastery goals and peer cooperation, and developing high-quality instructor-student relationships.
Applications for the 2024-2025 Teaching Development Fellows Cohort will open on Monday, May 6 at noon. The deadline for applying is Wednesday, May 29, at 11:59 pm (ET) If you have additional questions, contact Ben Hansberry, Associate Director for Graduate Student Teaching, or your department’s current fellow. About the Fellowship Fellows work within an interdisciplinary […]
All MIT graduate students who have completed the Lesson Planning Track are welcome to apply. About the Program The Microteaching Track is a sequence of 2 microteaching workshops. In a microteaching workshop, a small group of students each present a brief teaching demo and receive feedback from peers and TLL staff. Following the first microteaching […]
How Design-fiction Can Help Engineering Students Imagine the Future The Nexus, 14S-130 | Hayden Library, 160 Memorial Drive Bring your lunch and join Dr. Julitte Huez, Ph.D., INP - ENSIACET and TLL to discuss how "design-fiction" can help engineering students learn to develop more diverse and creative solutions to complex technological problems. The waste sector […]
About the Program The Subject Design Track is a sequence of three interactive 2-hour workshops focused on course design. Participants will learn to build a course by first identifying goals and then organizing assignments and content to align with these goals. Over the course of the program, participants will develop a syllabus for a course […]
