Join the CIRTL@UCLA Community
There are many ways to engage with the CIRTL community at UCLA.
In addition to our online communities there are many courses and workshops designed for the advancement and professionalization of graduate students, postdocs, and faculty. Check out our monthly newsletter for more upcoming offerings!
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Current CIRTL@UCLA community members (associates, practitioners, and scholars), please login to the
CCLE website
to update your progress and complete the
required questionnaire
.
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CIRTL Fall Information Session &
Teaching as Research Presentations
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Date:
Monday, September 23rd
Time:
10:15am - 11:45am
Location:
TBD
This session will highlight TAR presentations from CIRTL Scholars as well as provide general information about the CIRTL@UCLA Program.
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46th Annual Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Conference
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Date:
September 23rd - 24th
Time:
8:30am - 5:00pm
Location:
UCLA
Each year, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (formerly OID), TA Training Program organizes a conference to provide teacher training and resource information to both new and continuing TAs. Even if you will not TA in 2019–20, you are welcome to attend the conference in preparation for future teaching assignments.
Our annual conference meets for two days—the Monday and Tuesday of Week 0 on September 23rd and 24th. The conference will kick off with a complimentary breakfast and an informative resource fair that connects TAs with essential campus resources for undergraduate teaching. We will start our first day together with a keynote lecture by expert faculty to introduce you to UCLA's undergraduates and teaching at UCLA.
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If you would like to engage at the CIRTL Associate level,
enroll NOW in Grad PD 496A, An Introduction to Evidence Based Teaching
, which will meet this fall on Wednesday’s 12-1:30 pm. This course (or it’s equivalent) is a pre-requirement for Grad PD 496B, the Teaching as Research course that is taught in winter quarter. If you cannot meet at this time, there are alternative options for this requirement (please
see our website
for details)
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Enroll
NOW
in Grad PD 496A:
An Introduction to Evidence Based Teaching!
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Course Begins: Wednesday, October 2nd 2019
Days: Wednesdays
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: TBD
This is a fully flipped 2 unit S/U class, with online videos each week and an in-person learning community comprised of
graduate students and post docs
who are committed to teaching inclusively.
This is the first in a 3 course series of the STAR program and will count toward your certification as a CIRTL Associate.
Open to
ALL disciplines
and you are not required to be teaching concurrently.
Weekly topics:
Week 1 What is a Learning Community focused on Evidence Based Teaching?
Week 2 Principles of Learning, Part 1
Week 3 Principles of Learning, Part 2
Week 4 Introduction to Backward Design
Week 5 Assessment and Feedback
Week 6 Practicing Alignment
Week 7 Active Learning Part I
Week 8 Active Learning Part II: Group work
Week 9 Inclusive Teaching
Week 10 Lesson plan presentations and wrap up
Enrollment IS OPEN NOW!
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CIRTL Network's online programming
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The CIRTL online network offers courses, workshops and events that count toward Associate level certification. Here are the fall offerings:
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Courses have live, real-time online sessions and require regular homework outside of those class meetings. Short courses typically meet weekly for one to two months, while full courses typically meet for two to three months. Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority.
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CIRTL MOOCs take place on the EdX platform and use video-based modules, discussion boards, and peer-reviewed assignments to teach participants about different aspects of evidence-based STEM teaching over the course of 8 weeks. Registration is required; there is no cost to participate and no enrollment cap. For more information, visit the
CIRTL MOOC website
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Workshops have live, real-time online sessions and require independent work outside of those meetings. Workshops can have one, two, or three online sessions (multi-session workshops typically have one session per week). Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority.
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Learning communities have live, real-time online meetings and rely on participants completing related work outside of those meetings. Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority. Communities may have prerequisites that participants must meet in order to take part, and they may have an additional application process to confirm participants meet those requirements.
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Teaching summits have live, real-time online sessions. Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority.
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CIRTL LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
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There are three levels of certification for the CIRTL program, e
ach level has unique learning outcomes
:
- CIRTL Associate: recognizes the role of the CIRTL core ideas in effective teaching and learning
- CIRTL Practitioner: addresses scholarly teaching using the CIRTL core ideas to demonstrably improve learning of students by completing a teaching-as-research (TAR) project
- CIRTL Scholar: advances teaching and learning, and makes the results from TAR project public.
CIRTL program outcomes conceived in this way permit anyone to enter the CIRTL Network learning community from a wide variety of disciplines, needs, and past experiences, and to achieve success as a teacher at a wide variety of engagement. One way to achieve CIRTL Scholar level is to participate in the STAR program (discussed below) but this is not the only way, and requirements can be discussed with the Director (Rachel Kennison) on an individual basis.
A note on the requirements for Associate Level
You must complete one course on Evidence Based Teaching (EBT) that aligns with the CIRTL learning outcomes. CIRTL@UCLA offers a course each fall (Grad PD 496A), but this is NOT the only way to complete this requirement. For example, other courses that fulfill this requirement are: The CIRTL online MOOC, the TAC summer academy, Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy, Community Engaged Teaching (Grad PD 495CE) or the TA training course for Life Sciences, LS 495.
In addition, you must complete 20-25 hours of an additional course or workshop related to EBT or Professional Development. Some examples are CIRTL online courses and workshops (posted on our home page and on the
CIRTL website
), Entering Mentoring Training program or EPIC/CAT workshops.
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Engage in CIRTL@UCLA in whatever way meets your needs. It is common to start off as a community member and as you get more interested in learning more about teaching, you may want to increase your participation. Each level has a variety of ways to engage. All activities in each level are aligned with the CIRTL network
core ideas
and
learning outcomes.
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Track your Certification progress
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If you are interested in becoming certified as a CIRTL Associate, Practitioner or Scholar, join the CCLE collaboration site to keep track of your progress through engagement levels.
Click on the level of certification you are engaged in and complete the tracking form.
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Scholars for Teaching as Research Program (STAR)
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The STAR program allows you to move through the pedagogical training from Associate to Scholar through a series of courses (Grad PD 496 A, B, C).
Grad PD 496A, An Introduction to Evidence Based Teaching
is offered in
fall
quarter. This course is taught in a flipped format, with videos each week and in-person learning community meetings where we practice the theory of evidence based practice. Most of the work is done in class, other than watching the videos outside of class. Most students find this course to be a lower effort course, because of the way it is structured, and can be taken either while you are teaching or not.
Grad PD 496B, Teaching as Research,
is offered in
winter
and is a more rigorous course, and requires a good deal of outside the classroom work. The outcome is a proposal for your Teaching as Research project. While you are not required to be teaching while you take the course, you are required to plan to implement the project in a course you will be teaching either in spring, summer or fall. Because of the rigor, you should not take Grad PD 496B until you are ready to spend the time developing your proposal, which may not be right after you take Grad PD A, which is fine.
Grad PD 496C, Implementation of TAR,
is offered in
spring/summer.
This is a learning community that provides you with support while you are iterating and implementing your project, analyzing your data and planning to present. This course should be taken directly after Grad PD 496B.
Graduate students who have completed their qualifying exams and have advanced to candidacy may have more time to devote to teaching and training and might be ready to move from the Associates Level to the Practitioner level.
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Open Temporary Lecturer Positions
The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry seeks applications for temporary lecturer positions to teach lower division Organic Chemistry courses during the Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 Quarters.
more info
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Harvey Mudd College Positions
Introductory laboratory (2 positions)
The Department of Biology at Harvey Mudd College seeks adjunct faculty to teach in our introductory biology laboratory in the spring of 2020. The laboratory is taken by first year non-major students and involves the application of molecular biology techniques to problems in human genetics, bioengineering, and environmental sensing. Teaching in this course would involve coming to campus several afternoons per week. Successful applicants will have a strong background in molecular biology and interest in teaching.
Upper level molecular elective (1 position)
The Department of Biology at Harvey Mudd College seeks adjunct faculty to teach an upper level elective in an area of molecular and cellular biology. Possible topics include immunology, developmental biology, and cancer, among others. The course would be taught in the spring of 2020 and students would consist of junior and senior biology majors. A successful applicant will have a strong background in the area of focus and interest in teaching.
Ecology (1 position)
The Department of Biology at Harvey Mudd College seeks adjunct faculty to teach introductory ecology in the spring of 2020. The course is typically taken by sophomore, junior, and senior biology majors. A successful applicant will have a strong background in ecology and interest in teaching.
If interested, please contact Eliot Bush, chair of the Biology Department
(
Eliot_Bush@hmc.edu
).
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The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is a national network providing graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with online training on evidence based teaching and professional development. UCLA is a member of CIRTL giving you access to all CIRTL online programing across the network.
To register for the National network please visit
CIRTL.net
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Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning |
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