Workshops January
All MSU Teaching Assistants are invited to participate in the following campus-wide workshops sponsored by the Graduate School, MSU's TA 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 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
Teaching Assistant Programs
Responsible Conduct of Research
PhD Career and Professional Development Workshop Series
ITA Orientation
Summer English Program
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Workshops
January 15, 2009
RCR: Personal Responsibility in Conducting Graduate Research & Advancing Your Career
Location: Kellogg Center, Lincoln Room
Time: 6-8 pm
This Workshop fulfills the certification in college teaching competency: Professional Development/Understanding the Academy
Academic research is based on trust in the work of others. Also, information generated may often be used just as readily for destructive purposes as for helping mankind in a constructive manner. Therefore, researchers have a great personal responsibility, both individually and collectively, to others. This workshop highlights university guidelines, policies, procedures, and regulations related to institutional and public expectations about personal responsibilities and the consequences if personal actions violate or do not meet these expectations.
January 22, 2009
Creating a Teaching Philosophy You Can Use II
International Center Spartan Room C
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
This Workshop fulfills the certification in college teaching competency: Adult Students as Learners/Creating Learning Environments & Professional Development Understanding the Academy
How can we create a teaching philosophy that meaningfully describes 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 continue a workshop begun in December 2007 helping you develop further the seminal points you need to address in your teaching philosophies. This workshop will delve more deeply into the process of finding answers to questions most often addressed in effective teaching philosophies. Bring with you the writing and materials I distributed at the last TP workshop. (NOTE: There will be another TAP Teaching Philosophy workshop on May 7th. It is a condensed experience, focusing on the key issues one needs to address when crafting a teaching statement. Please check the TAP workshop calendar for updates.)
January 30, 2009
Integrating Writing into Science Courses
Kellogg Center, Red Cedar Room AB
Time: Continental Breakfast and registration at 8:00 am; program begins at 8:30 am
Led by members of the MSU’s Science Writing Faculty Learning Community (FLC). In this interactive workshop designed for instructors in the sciences, participants will learn strategies to integrate writing in their courses, both to help students learn content and to improve students’ ability to write well using the conventions of scientific writing. Session participants will work in small groups, with guidance from members of the MSU Faculty Learning Community on "Writing in the Sciences" to develop strategies and writing assignments that can be adapted to their courses as well as effective and efficient approaches to assessing these assignments, including the use of rubrics. Participants will leave the seminar with at least two writing assignments as well as a compendium of ideas for writing assignments to adapt to their own courses.