If you’re looking to expand your pedagogical toolkit, you’ve come to the right place. Below is a curated list of some of the pedagogical opportunities available to UCI grads. Check back frequently as this page is updated regularly.
Current Pedagogical Resources & Events
Graduate Student Learning Community on Teaching
The graduate student learning community on teaching is a student-led space to share teaching challenges and triumphs. Join us for skill sharing and problem solving. The group meets on a monthly basis during the quarter and fulfills the requirements for Mellon 5+2 pedagogy trainings. Lunch provided. Click the link above to learn more and RSVP.
Humanities Pedagogical Certificate Program
The Humanities Pedagogical Certificate program is hosted by Humanities Center and the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation. Workshops may be attended individually or sequentially for the certificate. Lunch provided. Click the link above to learn more.
Past Pedagogical Resources & Events
Inclusive Instruction Working Group, Cultivating Habits of Accessible Teaching
The Inclusive Instruction Working Group is a cross-disciplinary space on campus through which graduate student TAs collaboratively learn about and develop inclusive teaching practices. In this 5-week series, Cultivating Habits of Accessible Teaching, the working group will focus on how varying forms of disability may affect students’ engagement with normative modes of instruction. Drawing on scholarship on inclusive teaching and learning, as well as on a survey circulated to UCI students who identify as having a disability that affects their participation in and experience of education, this group will discuss both general and disciplinary-specific strategies for teaching in ways that are inclusive to a wide variety of students.
Each working group session will focus on a particular topic, for instance, universal design in the classroom, ableism and microaggressions, and best practices that cultivate habits of inclusive teaching. These discussions will explore possible tensions between normative educational “best practices” and accessibility (e.g. in the case of powerpoint slide design) and consider the pros and cons of creating alternative adaptations versus utilizing universal design.
We will meet on Thursdays for the month of May. Our first meeting will be on Thursday, May 2nd from 2:30-4:00 PM in SSPB 1222. Join us for any or all of these meetings! RSVP here.
Meeting Schedule (2:30-4pm in SSPB 1222):
Week 1 (May 2nd): Introduction, Resources, and Albeism
Week 2 (May 9th): Concrete Practices and Universal Design
Week 3 (May 16th): The Conundrum of Best Practices and Accessibility
Week 4 (May 23rd): Survey results and Habits of Inclusive Teaching
Week 5 (May 30th): Group Choice
Led by PhD students, Danica Loucks (Department of Anthropology) and Jessica Wang (Department of Earth System Science). Contact dloucks@uci.edu or jkwang1@uci.edu if you have any questions.