Preparing Graduate Students to Teach
IUB offers many resources specifically to support graduate student teaching. These resources include an online teaching handbook, pedagogy courses, workshops and consultations about teaching, participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conversations, Preparing Future Faculty opportunities and teaching awards. If you have any questions, please contact us.
- Online Teaching Handbook
- Workshops and consultations for graduate students
- Pedagogy courses
- Resources for international graduate instructors
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Preparing Future Faculty conference
- Future Faculty Teaching Fellowships
- Lieber Associate Instructor Awards
Online Teaching Handbook
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Workshops and consultations for graduate students
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The Campus Climate Workshop, offered by the Office of Academic Affairs during Fall Orientation for new graduate instructors at IU Bloomington, offers techniques for effectively teaching undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds and learning styles. The 2006 workshop will be held August 22 and 23 at the Indiana Memorial Union.
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Campus Instructional Consulting conducts workshops, mid-semester student evaluations of teaching, classroom observations, and private consultations for graduate students about teaching. We help instructors at all levels with course design, microteaching, classroom management and civility, encouraging discussion, grading, assessing learning, and documenting teaching. Go to Our Services ot read more about how we help instructors. Contact our office if you would like to set up an individual consultation or departmental workshop.
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The Campus Writing Program assists graduate instructors in designing writing assignments and conducts grading norming sessions for graduate instructors.
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Community Outreach and Partnerships in Service–Learning assists graduate instructors in combining community engagement with course–based learning.
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Teaching and Learning Technologies Center helps graduate instructors with current campus technologies such as OnCourse and they work with instructors to develop new instructional technologies.
Pedagogy courses
Pedagogy courses are offered in twenty–eight schools and departments around campus to develop graduate students’ disciplinary teaching skills. Campus Instructional Consulting assists departments in designing these courses and maintains an online listing of courses, faculty contacts, and associated syllabi.
Resources for international graduate instructors
Information for international graduate instructors about language testing procedures as well as cultural norms and practices in the American classroom are found on the Graduate School’s webpage.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The SOTL program at IUB offers a number of seminars throughout the year reporting on research on teaching and learning on the IU campus.
Graduate students can document the developments in their coursework by creating a course portfolio through the SOTL program.
Preparing Future Faculty conference
Sponsored by the Graduate School, the Departments of Biology, Communication and Culture, History, and Sociology, as well as the School of Journalism, this one–day, on–campus conference for graduate students offers advice from faculty on developing the teaching and research record, understanding differences in academic environments, and preparing for the academic job market. The twelfth annual conference entitled “Crafting your Career: From Student to Professional” was held February 9, 2007 at the Indiana Memorial Union.
Future Faculty Teaching Fellowships
Through the Future Faculty Teaching Fellowships (FFTF), advanced IU Bloomington doctoral students and advanced MFA students in Fine Arts experience faculty life at non–residential Indiana University campuses or possibly independent colleges in Indiana. FFT Fellows are mentored by a faculty member at the host institution as they teach two courses per semester for one or two semesters and participate in faculty orientation, faculty meetings, and other service activities.
Lieber Associate Instructor Awards
Initiated in 1961, these awards have been presented each year to outstanding teachers among the University’s graduate students who combine their programs of advanced study with instructional employment in their schools and departments. They receive a one–time cash award.
