Giving Guest Lectures and Presentations

Event Date & Time

Event Description

In this session, we will compare and contrast presentations and guest lectures. With this, we will design a toolkit to prepare for successful presentations or guest lectures. Finally, we will collaboratively explore common challenges associated with public speaking and practice strategies to overcome these.

Facilitators: Austin Taylor & Jens Vent Schmidt

Register and attend this workshop in order to help complete the following themes:

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Classroom Teaching Approaches

TA Institute

The TA Institute is open to any Graduate Student who is interested in teaching or TAing, and includes sessions on Teaching and Learning Theory, Scholarship, Classroom Strategies, Campus Climate, and Lesson Design. If you have interest in becoming a better TA, or get a head start preparing for teaching in your career, sign up for one or more of these 2 hour, interactive workshops.

This year, workshops in the TA institute are organized into 5 themes, and if you complete all the workshops in a theme, and do the related pre & post institute online module, you are eligible for a letter of completion you can include in your Teaching Portfolio and C.V., as well as a copy of that letter posted on Linkedin (as a recommendation). These letters will include a brief description of any themes that you completed, and how the work you did in those themes supports your development as a teacher.

The themes are:

• Designing for Effective Teaching 
• Integrating Teaching and Learning Theory 
• Classroom Teaching Approaches
• Campus Climate 
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning