Career & Tools

The “Pillars of Teaching Assistantship” workshop series and certificate is designed to provide TAs with a comprehensive, research-based foundation for teaching in the role of TA. TAs will earn a Pillars certificate after completing all six workshops and their brief pre- and post- workshop activities. In this workshop on April 9 you will use learning objective taxonomies and a lesson planning framework to design active, student-centered classes. Read on to learn more!

Thursday, April 1st, 2021 - 7:15am


The "Pillars of Teaching Assistantship" workshop series and certificate is designed to provide TAs with a comprehensive, research-based foundation for teaching in the role of TA. TAs will earn a Pillars certificate after completing all six workshops and their brief pre- and post- workshop activities. More information about this series as well as other Spring 2021 Instructional Development workshops can be found here.

You must pre-register to attend this session. All Spring Pillars workshops will be recorded.

Pillar 2: Engaging Students in their Learning
2B. Creating Engaging Lessons

Facilitator: Katie L. Jan, TA Pedagogical Advisor

Creating lessons is essential, but how can we ensure those lessons are engaging for our students? In this workshop, you will use learning objective taxonomies and a lesson planning framework to design active, student-centered classes.

When: Friday, April 9
Time: 1-2pm
Register here
Zoom link