Fundamentals of Teaching History

Sam Schaffer and Robin Morris

HGS 220A

Are you preparing to teach a history section for the first time?  Attend the History Fundamentals workshops and enter the classroom prepared to lead engaging, effective discussion sections. Learn the basics of section planning and grading. Explore strategies to stimulate meaningful discussion and learn to develop creative lesson plans that engage all your students and sharpen their historical skills. For more information, email robin.morris@yale.edu or samuel.schaffer@yale.edu.

Target Departments: [History, American Studies, African American Studies]

Teaching from Day One: Standards and Expectations
Thursday, September 4, 4:30-6:45

Running Successful Section: Planning and Facilitating Discussion
Tuesday, September 9, 4:30-6:00

Engaging Students Who Have Diverse Learning Styles
Tuesday, September 16, 4:30-6:00

Assessment, Grading, and Feedback

Tuesday, September 23, 4:30-6:00

Paul Lagunes and Gaye Ilhan Demiryol

Date and Time: Mondays: 9/8, 9/15, 9/22,   5:30-7pm

Location: 8 Prospect Place, 121.

Target Departments:  [Political Science, International Relations]

Session1:  Getting Started Teaching in Political Science 1

Session 2:  Getting Started Teaching in Political Science 2

Session 3:  Teaching Writing in Political Science

Getting ready to teach in Political Science? Join this three-part workshop series, designed to help you address challenges specific to teaching political science. The main purpose of the workshops is to generate a wide range of concrete tools for leading an engaging and effective discussion section. The first session will prepare you for your very first day in the undergraduate classroom, suggesting ways of breaking the ice, setting goals and expectations for your students, and stoking their enthusiasm for your course. The second session will address challenges for the long haul, such as keeping your sections interesting and rigorous, avoiding the tendency to go overboard with teaching preparation, and developing troubleshooting techniques. The third session will focus exclusively on how you can help your students become better writers in political science through supervising the full range of exercises from weekly assignments to research papers. We will be making extensive use of the course syllabus you will be teaching in order to generate substantive ideas you can use in the classroom. For more information, email paul.lagunes@yale.edu and gaye.ilhan@yale.edu.

Fundamentals of Teaching Music

Anna Gawboy and Jamie O'Leary

Session 1: Wednesday, September 10, 4:00-5:30
Session 2: Wednesday, September 17, 4:00-5:30
Session 3: Wednesday, September 24, 4:00-5:30
Session 4: Wednesday, October 1, 4:00-6:00

Target Departments: [Music; School of Music]

This four-part workshop will help both new and returning teaching fellows foster deeper and more critical interaction with music in any classroom.  We will cover a variety of general classroom strategies for articulating goals and expectations, giving and getting feedback, and encouraging students' active engagement with class material-- all with an eye toward the unique problems one encounters when teaching with music.  Special attention will be given to using music examples effectively and teaching students to talk and write about music. A final session will explore teaching aural and keyboard skills and how to integrate these technical skills into a larger musical discourse.   Email anna.gawboy@yale.edu or james.oleary@yale.edu for more information.

Med school location: BCMM 201

Mondays 12-1:30, September 8, 15, 22, and 29

Science Hill location: KBT 102

Mondays, Sept. 8, 15, 22 & 29 from 5:30-7pm

Target Departments: [ All BBS; Chemistry; Physics; EPH]

Are you preparing to teach section for the first time?  This engaging four-workshop series will help you learn how to lead a successful section for science courses and refine your skills as a Teaching Fellow. We will cover a host of topics essential for teaching in the sciences, such as: structuring your sections, effectively engaging students, providing and collecting useful feedback, and tips for grading efficiently and fairly. The workshops will provide a valuable opportunity to discuss strategies and approaches for issues common to science course sections. Armed with valuable ideas and knowledge of Yale’s teaching resources, you’ll be equipped for your first section and those to follow! For more information, email kristin.rudenga@yale.edu or maureen.canavan@yale.edu (med school series); or carolin.cardamone@yale.edu or karl.waern@yale.edu (Science Hill series).

Science Hill location TBA

Mondays 11:30-12:30, September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 20*

Target Departments:  [All BBS; Chemistry; Physics; EPH]

This workshop series will address strategies and tools for being an effective and dynamic teaching fellow in Yale science labs. Participants will learn how to ask and answer questions that promote critical thinking, how to utilize experimental approaches to reinforce basic scientific concepts, and how to design and deliver excellent pre-lab lectures. We will also address practical issues such as grading, establishing guidelines and expectations, and giving and soliciting feedback. The workshops will provide a valuable opportunity to examine common teaching dilemmas that can happen in a lab setting and how to solve them. Armed with concrete tips and a command of Yale’s vast teaching resources, you’ll be set for an exciting, rewarding semester. For more information, email jennifer.frederick@yale.edu or sourpouhi.bedikian@yale.edu.

John Oksanish and Neil Arner

HGS 401

4:00 to 5:30 PM on Mondays, September 8, 15, 22, & 29

Target Departments:  [English, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Philosophy, , Classics, History of Medicine and Science, American Studies, African American Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religious Studies, East Asian Studies; Schools of Architecture, Art & Drama]

Those who are teaching sections in the humanities are invited to learn effective practices for promoting student excellence in reading and discussing texts as well as writing about them. This practical series of four workshop will equip participants to utilize a diversity of teaching methods, to fairly evaluate student performance, and to reflectively improve one's teaching. Tasty snacks will be provided each week. For more information, email <john.oksanish@yale.edu> or neil.arner@yale.edu.

Sarah Rabbitt and Andy Cantrell

Target Departments: [Economics; Math; Computer Science; Statistics; Psychology; Sociology; Anthropology; Linguistics; Archeological Studies; Schools of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Engineering, Management]

Workshop 1: Tuesday, September 9, 5:15-6:45
Workshop 2: Tuesday, September 16, 5:15-6:45
Workshop 3: Monday, September 22, 5:15-6:45
Workshop 4: Tuesday, September 30, 5:15-6:45

Kirtland Hall, Rm 207

2 Hillhouse Ave

Are you preparing to teach in the social sciences, or to teach quantitative material in another discipline?  If so, please join us for an engaging four-workshop series which will help you make the most of your sections. Topics covered will include: structuring section time, providing and gathering useful feedback, leading productive discussions, and grading fairly and efficiently.

For each topic covered, we will first discuss ideas helpful to any TF, then consider more specific issues in two groups: one focused on teaching quantitative material in the social and natural sciences, and one focused on teaching texts and leading discussions in the social sciences.  The separate groups will allow us to compare and contrast the techniques required for effectively teaching qualitative and quantitative material, respectively.  The workshops will provide a comfortable forum for discussing teaching, and a valuable opportunity to discuss pedagogical issues.  For more information, contact sarah.rabbitt@yale.edu or andrew.cantrell@yale.edu.

 
Fundamentals of Teaching Foreign Languages

A Joint Workshop of the Graduate Teaching Center and the Center for

Language Study

Mark Knowles, Nelleke Vandeusen-Scholl, and Evelyn Scaramella

Tuesdays beginning 9/9

3:00-4:30 pm, Center for Language Study Library, 370 Temple Street 

(Temple and Grove)

Target Departments: [French; German; Italian; Spanish and Portuguese; Slavic; East Asian Lang. and Lit.; Near Eastern Lang. and Culture; All other language courses]

Fundamentals of Teaching in Language is an in-service workshop open to all language instructors and particularly addressed to those beginning their teaching careers at Yale. Our goal will be to help new teachers become more confident, organized, and effective. We will address issues such as reaching students with different learning styles, classroom management, communicative grammar teaching, error correction, developing sensitivity to cultural and identity issues, and effective uses of technology and other forms of authentic communication in the classroom. We also will provide a forum for teachers of all languages to share their ideas, concerns and experiences with their colleagues.

For more information, email evelyn.scaramella@yale.edu, mark.knowles@yale.edu, or nelleke.vandeusen-scholl@yale.edu.