Pedagogy and Professional Development Workshops

To assist graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in their instructional development, McGraw offers pedagogy workshops designed to enhance evolving understanding of teaching practices, and examine topics such as teaching interactively, encouraging participation, and best practices in teaching. The semester’s workshop schedule is posted in early fall and early spring. Workshops with ‘(TT)’ indicated at the end of the title can be counted as a pedagogy workshop for the teaching transcript program.

Graduate Pedagogy Workshops

McGraw Center Graduate/Post-doc Workshop: Making Sense of Student Evaluations (TT)
Apr 25, 2024, 3:30 pm
The end of the semester is approaching and student evaluations will soon pour in. As we receive this feedback (the good, the bad, the disgruntled), how do we parse the submissions to identify the most useful points to improve our teaching practices? What might we do with this information, as imperfect, hastily written, or biased as it may be? We…