Workshops December
All MSU Teaching Assistants are invited to participate in the following campus-wide workshops sponsored by the Graduate School, MSU's TA Programs, and SELECTED offerings from The Lilly Faculty Development Seminar Programs. We invite suggestions for future workshops. This listing will be updated continually. PLEASE NOTE: the individual workshops below are arranged by date; however, we will include notifications of other MSU workshop series and development opportunities available to graduate students that are not included in the dated list. Please compare the dates on the Series Announcement(s).
Registration Information
TA Program and Lilly FAC Development Workshops, contact kmj@msu.edu. Please include your name, department, and list of the workshop(s) you wish to attend.
Graduate School Workshops, register through gradwrsp@msu.edu. Please contact me with any questions you have about these programs or with recommendations for future offerings. For other information for graduate students, please visit the MSU Graduate School website.
Warmest Regards,
Kevin M. Johnston
Director, MSU TA Programs
|
Workshops
December 6, 2007
"Creating a Teaching Philosophy You Can Use Part I"
This workshop fulfils the MSU Certification in College Teaching competency: Adult Students and Learners/Creating Learning Environments
Loction: International Center Spartan Room C
Time: 5 - 6:30 pm
Writing a teaching philosophy is one of the most rewarding and, unfortunately, often one of the hardest tasks to complete. How many times have we sat down to pen an artful statement describing our roles as teachers only to end up slinking away from the computer, despairing over the difficulty of putting down often nebulous thoughts about an enterprise that is hard to describe? How can we create that ultimately meaningful description of why we do what we do, how we do it, and how our approach reflects some deeper (dare we say, “unique?”) thinking about teaching?
Join me, Kevin Johnston, MSU TA Director, as we use writing exercises to help get you thinking and talking (AND putting pen to paper) about the seminal points you need to address in your teaching philosophies. This workshop will give you a solid foundation from which you can start to write what will be one of the most important records you create of your teaching life.
MSU’s TA Program will provide a light supper. Bring with you writing materials and a cheerful willingness to share your “teaching philosophy travails” with your colleagues!
To ensure that we can create workable cooperative-learning groups, workshop participation is limited to 35. Please register at kmj@msu.edu.