Location: EV1 241
Description: This session will be of interest to graduate students who are getting ready to teach their first course as instructors during the Spring and Fall 2016 terms. It will include a series of panel presentations by graduate students, who successfully taught their first course at uWaterloo, as well as group discussions of common scenarios from the classroom. By the end of the session, participants will have discussed common challenges faced by first-time instructors, identified strategies for addressing them and developed ideas for getting their courses off to a great start.
Presenter Panel:
Rania Al-Hammoud (Engineering) - recipient of the Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student, 2014
Marcia Chaudet (Science)
Sara Scharoun (Applied Health)
Dylon McChesney (Arts) - recipient of the Graduate Student Teaching Award, Department of Philosophy, 2013-2014
Facilitator: Hadi Hosseini (Math), CTE
Notes:
- You must be teaching your own course in the upcoming terms.
- This session will be very interactive, and is limited to 20 participants.
- You must arrive on time and stay for the entire event to receive credit.
Registration: To request a spot in the workshop, please send the following information to cte-grad@uwaterloo.ca:
- Full name
- Student ID
- Department
- Title and course code of the course which you will teach in Spring 2016 or Fall 2016