We offer a professional development program for graduate students focused on inclusive teaching practices. In this program, we work with units directly to offer tailored and customizable inclusive teaching programming to their graduate students.
In this program, we create and share advertising materials, create and track registrations, offer the sessions on Zoom (for maximum accessibility and participation), track attendance, and issue certificates to those who complete the program. We also work with units to recognize their graduate students’ accomplishments in professional development focused on supporting all students’ learning at the university.
This unit-based inclusive teaching programming is often offered as a mini-course. This is a professional development opportunity offered by the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning. It is not a credit-earning academic course and will not show up on participants’ university transcript. As a professional development opportunity, upon successful completion of the course, finishers would list this on their CV in a “professional development” section. While the program is offered within specific units, units do not earn a credential through this program, but should list offering this program to their students in their annual reporting. The graduate student finishers receive the mini-course credential, including a digital certificate.
This credential offered by the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning represents a significant opportunity for graduate students to take their first steps in inclusive teaching training as they begin or continue their roles as teaching assistants or instructors of record. Further, this opportunity is offered at no cost to units and relieves the burden of finding and/or creating specific programming for graduate students, by connecting to experienced facilitators with evidence-based content.
Please contact our team (Dr. Rachel Yoho, [email protected]) to learn more about this opportunity for the graduate students in your academic unit!