Graduate Employee Teaching Support
Graduate employees are vital to UO’s teaching culture. TEP supports graduate students in their various teaching roles through consultations, department discussions, workshops, and unique GE programs.
Ongoing GE Support
These programs occur regularly throughout the year to support GEs in their teaching duties and develop their teaching skills. GEs also can always reach out to us for a consultation about specific challenges they are facing, new teaching ideas, or general questions about pedagogy. Our consultations are confidential and can happen over phone, email, in-person, or via Zoom.
GE Success Newsletter
Graduate Day of Teaching
Graduate Teaching Initiative
Workshops
Need support outside of your teaching? The Grad OneStop page has a host of resources for GEs.
Resources of Interest
These resources on our website may be of particular interest to GEs.
This page provides guidance for successfully collaborating with other GEs and your faculty supervisor across linked lectures, discussions, and labs.
This resource outlines the components and principles that go into running effective discussions that invites all students in.
Curious about how to create a Canvas announcement, how to setup a quiz, or to manage grades in Canvas? This page provides links to several how-to documents to help you navigate Canvas at the UO.
This guide identifies six principles that can help you lead your course in times of heightened complexity in the world outside your classroom.
GE Specific Events during Winter 2025
For all events, click on their title for more information and to register to attend.
International Graduate Instructor Success Series - January 13, 2-3:30pm
This session is designed to support international GEs in their teaching at UO by providing an overview of U.S. classroom norms and expectations, the emotional labor of teaching while using a different language or teaching with an accent, manage microaggressions in the classroom, handle grading challenges, and choose appropriate instructional modes. The first of an on-going series.
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement – January 23, Noon-1pm, Zoom
A Teaching Philosophy Statement is a common application material when applying for faculty positions at a whole range of institutions. Join us to learn about their details and useful guidance for writing statements that will appeal to hiring committees.
Cultivating Community: Practical Approaches to Inclusivity - February 3, 9-10am, Zoom
Explore strategies for creating inclusive and supportive classroom communities, gaining tools that you can use right away to promote belonging and collaboration among students. This session stands alone or serves as an introduction to a three-part, in-person workshop series, each focused on practicing specific community-building skills highlighted in this session. Open to all teaching faculty, with a warm welcome to graduate students seeking to enhance their teaching practice.
Submission Deadline for Graduate Teaching Excellence Award - March 1
This award recognizes outstanding teaching by experienced graduate employees (GEs) who have demonstrated a commitment to developing their instructional skills. Applicants must be nominated by their home department, which may have earlier internal pre-application deadlines. Check with your department about their process for approving a nominee.
These aren't our only events. Check out the full calendar of events on our event page!
GE Teaching Awards
Kimble First-Year Teaching Award
The Graduate Teaching Excellence Award
Meet our 2024 Kimble First-Year Teaching Awardees!
Olivia Matsuoka
Department of English
Olivia Matsuoka (she/her) holds Bachelor's degrees in English and Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's in Humanities from the University of Chicago. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the English department at the University of Oregon, where she is also pursuing a graduate certificate in New Media and Culture. Her professional backgrounds in advertising and digital marketing inform her current research interests in digital humanities, speculative fiction, and Asian American literary and cultural production.
Luda Gogolushko
Communication and Media Studies
Luda Gogolushko is a disabled PhD candidate in the Communication and Media Studies program. As a qualitative, constructivist scholar, her disability-centered research focuses on media, communication, and technology within media effects, media psychology, and children’s media. She currently serves as a student representative for the Society for Disability Studies Board of Directors and is a 2024-2025 AEJMC-MCSD Diversity and Inclusion Career fellow. Prior to joining UO, she studied Communication and Recreation at California State University of Northridge.
Support for International GEs
Our GE Day of Teaching contains a specific session for international GEs of strategies and tips for teaching at UO.
In January we are beginning an International Graduate Instructor Success Series. The first workshop in the series is January 13 at 2-3:30pm. The session is designed to support international GEs in their teaching at UO by providing an overview of U.S. classroom norms and expectations, the emotional labor of teaching while using a different language or teaching with an accent, manage microaggressions in the classroom, handle grading challenges, and choose appropriate instructional modes.
Working with the Division of Graduate Studies and the GTFF, we will continue to roll out support structures for international GEs. Keep an eye on this space!
Need More Information?
Please contact us with any questions about TEP services or programs that support Graduate Employees. We are here to help!