CTI Graduate & Postdoc Newsletter
Spring 2023
Welcome to the Spring 2023 Semester!

We hope everyone had a peaceful and restorative holiday break!
 
Below, you'll find details and registration information for our spring teaching workshops and our two new seven-week teaching courses. If you’re interested in learning more about teaching at Cornell, we encourage you to sign up for one of our courses or review various teaching strategies in our Teaching at Cornell Guide.
 
We’d love to hear from you, so don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any questions or suggestions for additional programming that you would like us to offer in the future.

Best wishes,
Derina Samuel, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Teaching Tip: Get to know your students with a couple of icebreaker questions in your first class. Icebreakers can create a more relaxed classroom environment, help you and the students get to know each other as individuals, and build community.
Course Design Institute
This four-part workshop series guides you through the basic elements of course design. It offers strategies to define learning outcomes, align assignments and activities, evaluate student learning, and create a student-centered syllabus.

You may register and participate in these workshops individually, or as a series. Participants who complete an entire institute (all 4 workshops) will receive a CTI letter of completion for their teaching portfolio.

Backward Course Design: Developing Learning Outcomes

Developing a Syllabus from Scratch

Designing Learning Activities

Final Session: Peer Review
Graduate Course: Teaching in Higher Education (ALS 6015)
This seven-week, one-credit course addresses teaching challenges facing current and future instructors (i.e., graduate students, teaching assistants, and post-doctoral fellows). Offered in the first half of Spring 2023, the course's objective is to better prepare future instructors for success in higher education.
Graduate Course: Assessment in Higher Education (ALS 6016)
This seven-week, one-credit course is offered as a complement to ALS 6015: The Practice of Teaching in Higher Education. Offered in the second half of Spring 2023, the course will address topics including principles and frameworks of assessment; course-based assessment methods and technologies; curricular integration of assessment; and social and political issues in assessment.

Teaching Portfolio Program

Have you begun working on your teaching portfolio? This program is for anyone who has gone through our GET SET Institutes and would like an opportunity to discuss their teaching practices and their strategies for documenting their experiences. 

Register at any time to be part of the CTI Teaching Portfolio Program, and gain access to resources, consultations, and support for your teaching.
Teaching Assistant Online Orientation

The TA Online Orientation is designed to prepare new graduate teaching assistants for success in their first few weeks of teaching. This series of self-paced, asynchronous modules introduces teaching essentials and resources available at Cornell.
Teaching at Cornell Guide

The Teaching at Cornell Guide introduces key aspects of teaching and learning at Cornell through the lens of the five elements that CTI believes to be critical to instructor success. It is intended to begin, not complete, a dialogue on excellence in teaching and learning.
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