Participate in Seminars and Workshops
Every semester, Eberly Center offers a series of seminars covering various teaching topics. Each seminar is highly interactive, presents relevant research, and gives participants the opportunity to apply the topic to their own teaching context. Seminars are designed specifically for PhD, Master, and Postdoc audiences, but are also open to staff and undergraduate TAs. You do not have to be actively teaching to attend our seminars!
If you need accommodations to attend a seminar, please click on the Request Accommodations button next to the seminar.
Programs Open for Registration: Synchronous
Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers: an Institute for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows (TWO DAYS, 9am-12pm)
Thursday, January 9, 2025 9:00am – Friday, January 10, 2025 12:00pm
Tepper 1308
This is a TWO DAY institute: January 9-10, 9am-12pm. Signing up here will register you for both days.
Are you interested in learning how to effectively mentor undergraduate researchers? Would you like to develop your own mentoring identity and skill set? This two-day institute will prepare graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to design a project and mentor undergraduate students in research. Participants will leave with a toolkit of strategies to answer the following questions:
- What is inclusive and effective mentoring?
- How is mentoring similar to and different from teaching?
- How do you negotiate your own identity while mentoring?
- How can you help undergraduate researchers develop habits of mind and skills?
- How do you determine appropriate research goals and scope projects for individual students?
Breakfast will be provided both days. Note: this institute does not count as one of the 8 seminars required for the Future Faculty Program, but will still be listed on your Eberly Record.
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Sign in to RegisterPrograms Open for Registration: Asynchronous
GUSIO: Grading and Delivering Feedback on Quantitative Assignments (Code, Problem sets, etc.) (Async Seminar)
Available until Sunday, August 31, 2025 11:59
This seminar is asynchronous. You will receive instructions for enrolling in the GUSIO Canvas in the confirmation email.
This session will focus on evidence-based strategies for grading and providing feedback on quantitative work, such as problem sets and code. You will consider the relationship between grading and feedback, the characteristics of effective feedback, and research on the impacts of different types of feedback on student learning. Through hands-on exercises, you will also practice grading and providing feedback using rubrics, as well as analyzing examples of feedback on student work.
Please note: This seminar is the SAME as "Grading and Delivering Feedback on Writing Assignments," but the examples and practice differs. Please only complete one of the two seminars, based on your disciplinary background or TA appointment. If you complete both, it will only count as ONE FFP seminar.
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Sign in to RegisterGUSIO: Grading and Delivering Feedback on Writing Assignments (Papers, Lab Reports, etc.) (Async Seminar)
Available until Sunday, August 31, 2025 11:59
This seminar is asynchronous. You will receive instructions for enrolling in the GUSIO Canvas in the confirmation email.
This session will focus on evidence-based strategies for grading and providing feedback on QUALITATIVE work, such as writing assignments or short-answer exam questions. You will consider the relationship between grading and feedback, the characteristics of effective feedback, and research on the impacts of different types of feedback on student learning. Through hands-on exercises, you will also practice grading and providing feedback using rubrics, as well as analyzing examples of feedback on student work.
Please note: This seminar is the SAME as "Grading and Delivering Feedback on Quantitative Assignments," but the examples and practice differs. Please only complete ONE of the two seminars, based on your disciplinary background or TA appointment. If you complete both, it will only count as ONE FFP seminar
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Sign in to RegisterGUSIO: Working Well One on One with Students (Async Seminar)
Available until Sunday, August 31, 2025 11:59
This seminar is asynchronous. You will receive instructions for enrolling in the GUSIO Canvas in the confirmation email.
This session will focus on strategies for working effectively with students one-on-one in a variety of teaching contexts. What strategies can you employ to best support and advance student learning when interacting with students individually during studio, lab, recitation, and/or office hours sessions? How can you handle the difficult interactions that may arise during office hours or other one-on-one interactions? You will consider and practice using effective approaches and campus resources to support you and your students.
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Sign in to RegisterGUSIO: Creating a Welcoming and Supportive Climate from Day One (Async Seminar)
Available until Sunday, August 31, 2025 11:59
This seminar is asynchronous. You will receive instructions for enrolling in the GUSIO Canvas in the confirmation email.
Whether you have taught before or this is your first time teaching, this session will help you create an inclusive classroom climate from the start of your course. You will explore strategies for: (1) getting to know your students; (2) calibrating your instruction to CMU students; (3) creating a classroom climate that welcomes and supports learning for all students; (4) setting appropriate expectations; and (5) motivating and engaging students with course content from day one.
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Sign in to RegisterGUSIO: Conducting Productive and Engaging Discussions (Async Seminar)
Available until Sunday, August 31, 2025 11:59
This seminar is asynchronous. You will receive instructions for enrolling in the GUSIO Canvas in the confirmation email.
How can you design effective discussion activities for your students? What facilitation strategies maximize student participation, engagement, and learning outcomes? You will learn about the factors that influence student learning and engagement during discussions and acquire a toolkit of active learning methods for structuring productive discussions. Through hands-on activities, you will practice strategies for both designing and facilitating effective discussion activities, such as designing discussion questions, selecting discussion activities aligned with learning objectives, and identifying facilitation strategies to address common concerns about student participation and teaching inclusively.
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Sign in to RegisterGUSIO: Teaching Problem Solving in Recitation (Async Seminar)
Available until Sunday, August 31, 2025 11:59
This seminar is asynchronous. You will receive instructions for enrolling in the GUSIO Canvas in the confirmation email.
Leading a recitation section can be very different than teaching a large course or lecture. Recitations provide students the opportunity to practice solving problems and discuss questions about course material outside of lecture, often in a smaller group setting. This provides both benefits and challenges to TAs or instructors leading recitations. In this session, we will discuss learning goals for recitations and how to design sessions that help students achieve those goals, explore strategies for promoting student engagement and activity during problem-based recitation sessions, and look at research on how to best coach students through example problems.