Join us for our next talk in TLL’s Speaker Series: Reigniting the Spark of Learning Over the last decade, research examining and documenting the importance of students’ sense of belonging in college has increased substantially. In this workshop, Dr. Maithreyi Gopalan, Assistant Professor of Education & Policy, Penn State University, will provide a broad overview […]
Join us for our next talk in TLL’s Speaker Series: Reigniting the Spark of Learning With the advent of easy-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) text generation tools like ChatGPT, educators must grapple with this question and what it means for their course and assignment designs. In this practical session, Dr. Derek Bruff will briefly survey the […]
Dr. John Lloyd from MIT Medical will discuss issues of depression, anxiety, and relational challenges inherent to the graduate student/postdoc experience from a developmental perspective.
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 […]
Join us for the last talk in our 2022-23 Speaker Series: Reigniting the Spark of Learning Supporting Student Learning Through Metacognitive and Motivational Strategies Dr. Cristina D. Zepeda, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University As students advance in their educational trajectories, there is an increasing demand for them to independently monitor and […]
Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 Cohort of Teaching Development Fellows. The deadline for applying is Monday, May 22, at 11:59 pm (ET).
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.
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.
Summer 2023 TA Days: Monday, August 28, through Thursday, August 31. Before the start of each semester, TLL offers a series of workshops for TAs 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 hours, among other […]
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 […]
Any graduate student is welcome to apply. However, students who have completed the Lesson Planning Track will be given priority. 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 […]
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 […]
