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International Graduate Instructor Success Series - April 2, 2-3:30pm, EMU (room TBD)
Practice creating lesson plans that work for you and your students while continuing to build community with other International GE instructors. We’ll share the main parts of lesson planning along with supportive resources, and together apply them. We hope you’ll leave this session with a lesson plan you can use and with an even greater sense of confidence and connection. This session is open to international GEs teaching discussion sections, labs or as a sole instructor. 

Submission Deadline for Graduate Teaching Excellence Award - April 11
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.

Grading 601 - Tips for Grading Efficiently – April 16, 10-11am, Zoom
Getting feedback on their work is a critical piece of student learning cycle and is one of the key methods that students get direct guidance during a course. Unfortunately, grading also often falls near the bottom of a list of tasks instructors are excited to do. In this workshop you will examine methods to efficiently grade student assignments, while remaining fair, accurate and helpful, so that you can return to your other thousand responsibilities in a term.   

GTI End-of-Year Celebration - May 20, 11am-1pm, Knight Library Dream Lab 
For Graduate students: You are invited to join the Teaching Engagement Program’s Graduate Teaching Initiative (GTI) end-of-year event for the 2024-2025 academic year. We will celebrate graduate students who have completed their GTI certificates.  The GTI is a certificate program designed to support graduate students in developing a practice of teaching excellence. We welcome all UO graduate students with interest, including those who are working on or who have completed their certificates. Join us for snacks and community with graduate students across campus! 

Teaching Your First Course as the Instructor of Record - May 28, 2-4pm, Straub 401
This session is for graduate students who will be teaching or co-teaching their first course as instructor of record. Join us to learn to design lessons, assignments, and assessments that align with your course learning objectives, and add to your toolkits of strategies for building class community and facilitating interactive class sessions. We will also discuss syllabus design and the policies you’ll need to develop and follow in your course. 

Submission Deadline for Kimble First-Year Teaching Award  - June 30
The award recognizes outstanding teaching by graduate student instructors who have demonstrated a commitment to inclusive, engaged, and research-led practice. The annual prizes typically are awarded to one first-time lab or discussion section leader and to one first-time sole instructor.    

These aren't our only events. Check out the full calendar of events on our event page!

 

International GE Success Series

At the University of Oregon, international GEs make up 26% of GE population, bringing diverse perspectives, expertise, and multilingual skills that enrich classroom learning. They play a vital role in shaping students' educational experiences and contributing to UO’s teaching excellent which is professional, inclusive, engaged and research informed.

Our international GEs bring invaluable strengths, including:

• Cultural insights
• Diverse perspectives
• Multilingual communication skills
• Innovative pedagogical approaches

We also recognize the unique challenges international GEs may face, such as:

• Financial constraints
• Language barriers and confidence issues
• Navigating cultural differences in U.S. classrooms
• Balancing teaching, research, and coursework
• Understanding feedback and grading practices

TEP has launched the International GE Success Series—a workshop series for international GEs to build communityand improve their teaching skills.Our first event, held on January 13, focused on challenges and strengths of international GEs, U.S. classroom norms, and inclusive teaching strategies. See the resources here.Working with the Division of Graduate Studies and the GTFF, we will continue to roll out support structures for international GEs. Check TEP Calendar for future events.