This spring CIRTL is offering 4 courses, 2 event series, and 1 event for graduate students and postdocs pursuing teaching careers in higher education. Spring programming covers a range of teaching and learning topics: evidence-based teaching fundamentals, academic professional development, and teaching-as-research.
CIRTL's online programming is highly interactive, provides participants with an introduction to contemporary teaching and learning topics, and is intentionally designed to bring together graduate students, postdocs, and others across disciplines and institutions in order to deepen everyone's learning.
Tuesdays, January 28 - February 25 | Research Mentor Training
Work with a community of peers to develop and improve your research mentoring skills in this 5-week seminar-style course. Students will develop their personal mentoring philosophy, learn how to articulate that philosophy across a variety of disciplines, and refine strategies for dealing with mentoring challenges. This course meets online in Zoom on Tuesdays from January 28 through February 25 at 11:30pm-1am Gulf / 3:30-5pm Atlantic / 2:30-4pm Eastern / 1:30-3pm Central / 12:30-2pm Mountain / 11:30am-1pm Pacific. Cap: 20. Registration opens on Monday, January 13 at 11am Central Time and closes when capacity is reached (typically within several days).
Read more: https://cirtl.net/event/research-mentor-training-3/2025-01-28/
Thursdays, January 30 - March 20 | Mindset to Mastery: The Inclusive Teaching Course
Examine your own identities, values, and experiences to cultivate an inclusive mindset that informs your teaching practices in this 8-week course. The course meets online in Zoom on Thursdays from January 30 to March 20 at 8-9:30pm Gulf / 12-1:30pm Atlantic / 11am-12:30pm Eastern / 10-11:30am Central / 9-10:30am Mountain / 8-9:30am Pacific. Cap: 25. Registration opens on Monday, January 13 at 11am Central Time and closes when capacity is reached (typically within several days).
Read more: https://cirtl.net/event/mindset-to-mastery-the-inclusive-teaching-course-2/2025-01-30/
An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching
Get an overview of effective college teaching strategies and the research that supports them in this 8-part asynchronous course designed for graduate students and postdocs in STEM disciplines. Created in 2015 as a cohort-based course, we will be re-launching this course this fall as a self-paced online course. No cap.
Read more & register: https://cirtl.net/event/intro-to-evidence-based-undergraduate-stem-teaching/
Advancing Learning Through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching
Learn effective college-level teaching strategies that engage learners through active learning, as well as the research that supports them, in this 8-part asynchronous course designed for future faculty in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math). This course builds on “An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching”; the intro course is recommended, but not required, as a prerequisite for participating in this course. Created in 2015 as a cohort-based course, we will be re-launching this course this spring as a self-paced online course. No cap.
Read more & register: https://cirtl.net/event/advancing-learning-through-evidence-based-stem-teaching/
Exploring Career Paths with CIRTL Alumni
Learn about different career paths in academia and beyond in conversation with CIRTL alumni in this 4-part event series. Each event in the series will focus on a different career path: teaching careers at research universities, teaching careers at teaching-intensive institutions (liberal arts colleges, community colleges, etc.), non-faculty careers in academia, and careers outside of academia. No cap. Schedule & registration TBD.
The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series
Get a sampler of academic professional development in this 8-part event series covering everything from the academic hiring process, to defining your teaching philosophy, to careers outside academia. Events meet online in Zoom. No cap. Schedule & registration TBD.
CIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations
Hear graduate students and postdocs from across the CIRTL Network share the results of their Teaching-as-Research (TAR) projects in this online presentation event. In TAR projects, future faculty explore a specific question about teaching and learning, design and implement some sort of classroom-based intervention to test that question, and consider how they might adjust their teaching practices based on what the results show. TAR is a cornerstone of CIRTL’s work in developing reflective practitioners that support learning for all. No cap. Schedule & registration TBD.