Career & Tools

Join Instructional Development for a series of pre-winter TA workshops! Read on for more info and to RSVP.

By Graduate Division Staff
Friday, November 19th, 2021 - 8:30am

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Join Instructional Development for a series of pre-winter TA workshops! Check out the list of workshops below.

Designing Rubrics for equitable, consistent grading of finals, projects and assignments
Tues, 11/30, 11am-12:15pm, with Dr. Josh Kuntzman
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89303894269
Trouble-shoot your existing rubrics or create new scoring guides for your courses and assignments with a step-by-step discussion of rubric design. Register here.

Cool Tools for Class Collaboration and Communication
Friday, 12/10, 2-3:15pm, with Dr. Mindy Colin (ID)
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/780255627
Join us for demonstrations and discussions about digital tools that promote class collaboration and communication, like backchannel chats, collaborative annotation of course materials, and quizzing apps. Register here.

GauchoSpace Grading Workshop
Tues, 12/14, 2-3pm
This workshop will go over grading best practices for efficient and transparent grading in GauchoSpace. RSVP here.

Boosting In-class Participation
Wed,12/15, 2-3:15pm, ON CAMPUS - South Hall 1431
Tired of having the same three students raising their hands in each class session? Join us for this practical workshop to explore ways of getting a wider variety of students to participate during lecture. We will discuss techniques for large, medium and small class sizes, common pitfalls, and lecture planning. Register here.