Cultivating Professional Growth for Faculty and Graduate Students
Teaching Talks include:
- Scaffolding intercultural development/civic engagement goals across Mason’s undergraduate international pathways - Mika Endo, Sharon Doetsch-Kidder, Mohamed Mohamed - This presentation will report on a Curriculum Improvement Grant-funded collaboration between faculty from INTO Mason, CHSS, and Mason Korea. The project aimed 1) To integrate and align civic engagement and antiracist and inclusive excellence (ARIE) learning goals throughout the Undergraduate Pathways curriculum and 2) To redesign key courses to ensure that they suit the linguistic and cultural needs of International Pathways students and direct entry international students at both Fairfax and Mason Korea campuses. This presentation will demonstrate how we developed anti-racist Learning Outcomes and integrated content on racism, equity, and inclusion as well as civic engagement in the undergraduate international pathways curriculum. We will share a curriculum map of revised Learning Outcomes along with sample assessments and discuss how we selected materials and designed activities tailored to the needs of international and multilingual students. Our redesigned courses help international pathway students engage in campus conversations around racism, equity, and inclusion, and civic life, and develop a sense of belonging to the Mason community. This presentation will benefit all ranks of instructors redesigning their curricula, course syllabi, and Learning Outcomes to meet the new Global Contexts or Just Societies requirements for Mason Core and any instructors teaching to diverse backgrounds of students in a multi-cultural environment.
- Professional Development Programs For Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) Across Three STEM Disciplines - Nishchal Thapa Magar - Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are often the lead instructors in recitations and undergraduate labs. Universities have adopted different strategies to prepare their GTAs for the course content, class management, and teaching methodologies needed to run an effective class. Some of these approaches include pre-semester workshops, academic year workshops, regular meetings with course coordinators, pedagogy courses, learning communities, and apprentice teaching. These different approaches have a range of goals from content knowledge to understanding research-based teaching methods, to practice in the classroom with feedback. In this talk, we present a framework for understanding the range of GTA professional development models and our approach to GTA training across three departments - Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science (CS) - at George Mason University. The GTA professional development presented here evolved from local practices to meet the needs of a project that worked to embed more active and collaborative learning in large introductory courses.
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