CAT is pleased to provide workshops, reading groups, and other programming and services designed to support graduate students in their teaching. Whether you are an experienced teaching assistant looking for additional professional development opportunities or completely new to teaching, we have a variety of events to connect you with inspiring colleagues and develop your pedagogical skill set.
Required TA Training
If you are looking for the Essential Policies & Practices for TAs, a fully online training required for Categories 1–5 TAs who need to get certified to teach, please see our webpage for upcoming training offerings and more information.
Workshops
CAT teaching workshops are interactive sessions (typically 1.5 to 2 hours) led by a CAT facilitator or other subject matter expert. In addition to providing opportunities to learn about effective approaches to teaching, they are also opportunities to discuss ideas with other graduate students across disciplines. The following are our current workshop offerings:
Feedback for Learning
In this interactive workshop we will discuss implementing timely feedback that supports students’ learning. We will consider different types of feedback and the timing of feedback within a course. We will also identify the qualities of effective feedback and design feedback that helps students make progress towards course goals. We hope you can join us for this feedback focused workshop. We look forward to working with you!
Facilitators: Dr. Darcey Liang & Dr. Hannah Hiester, CAT Teaching Consultants
- Email: hhiester@fsu.edu & dliang@fsu.edu
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 29th, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom
More Summer Workshops Coming Soon!
Reading Groups
Reading groups are a great opportunity to connect with colleagues across disciplines and discuss great books about teaching and learning. Groups typically meet three times (approximately 1.5 hours each session) across three consecutive weeks and are led by a facilitator from CAT. Reading groups are a relaxed, discussion-focused environment that encourages participants to share their experiences and questions on the book topics.
See below for upcoming reading group offerings:
Graduate Student Reading Group – How Learning Works: 8 Research-Based Processes for Smart Teaching
Description: As educators in the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, we are continuously challenged to keep our courses effective, engaging, relevant, and inclusive. The updated and expanded second edition of How Learning Works can help! It incorporates the latest research, provides a wider range of strategies, and adds a new principle to your toolkit.
- Facilitator: Caity Bente, CAT Program Manager: TA Training & Professional Development
- Dates/Times (3 sessions)
- June 6, 13, & 20
- 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
- Location: In-Person
- Click here to register.
Graduate Student Reading Group – How Learning Works: 8 Research-Based Processes for Smart Teaching
Description: As educators in the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, we are continuously challenged to keep our courses effective, engaging, relevant, and inclusive. The updated and expanded second edition of How Learning Works can help! It incorporates the latest research, provides a wider range of strategies, and adds a new principle to your toolkit.
- Facilitator: Caity Bente, CAT Program Manager: TA Training & Professional Development
- Email: teaching-assistants@fsu.edu
- Dates/Times (3 sessions)
- July 3, 10, 17
- 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
- Location: Zoom
- Click here to register.
Graduate Student Reading Group – The Missing Course
Description: From active-learning strategies to course design to getting students talking, The Missing Course walks you through the fundamentals of the student-centered classroom, one in which the measure of success is not how well you lecture but how much students learn. Along the way, readers will find ideas and tips they can use in their classrooms right away.
- Facilitator: Tolu Jegede, CAT Graduate Assistant
- Email: tjegede@fsu.edu
- Dates/Times (3 sessions)
- July 9, 16, 23
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Location: Zoom
- Click here to register.
If you have questions about a particular reading group, please email the facilitator listed for that reading group.