Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

EngineeringIntroductionMost of the training future faculty receive in graduate school focuses on the research aspects ofthe enterprise. The typical new faculty member has little if any opportunity to prepare for theteaching aspects of an academic career. In this paper I share my experiences in nine offerings ofa graduate course on Teaching Engineering. The goal of the course is to prepare graduatestudents for the teaching responsibilities of a faculty position, acquaint them with learningtheories, give them a chance to discuss teaching issues and give them practice preparingmaterials for a course they might teach someday. These materials include: Educationalobjectives using higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, textbooks and other supporting material,detailed syllabus

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

://www.oir.uiuc.edu/Did/workshops/Fa07Workshops.htm. Accessed on January 17, 2008.6. Graduate Academy for College Teaching. Online at http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/did/TAs/GraduateAcademy.htm. Accessed on January 17, 2008.7. EOL 585: College Teaching and Academic Careers syllabus. Online at https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/loui/www/eol585syllabus.pdf. Accessed on January 17, 2008.8. Graduate Teacher Certificate program description. Online at http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/did/Certificates/GraduateTeacher.htm. Accessed on January 17, 2008. Page 13.674.6

Conference Session

Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

statements of research and teaching plans − Being ready for likely interview questions • Starting a research program 1.5 hr − Identifying funding sources and writing successful proposals − The NSF CAREER program − Attracting graduate students to your research program • Planning and teaching the first course 1.5 hr − ABET and learning objectives − Preparing a syllabus − Active learning • Success strategies for new faculty members (based on the work of 0.5 hr Robert Boice[2000]) • Open discussion 0.5