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2023-2024 TA Workshops

Welcome! Thank you for registering for the TA Workshops. Please complete the registration, then add your selected workshops to your schedule below. The quarterly workshops will feature the 5 Foundations of Teaching workshops, as well as a few non-foundational workshops. All workshops will be held virtually via Zoom, unless indicated otherwise. Be sure to add all desired workshops to your schedule and use the yellow "check-in" button when logging into your workshop. Your attendance will be recorded for your department’s records. Please note that if you arrive late or depart early (20 minutes or more), we ask that you reschedule and attend a different session.

🚨During Spring 2024, the TLC is piloting a flipped format for our How Students Learn e-learning module. It will remain available until the end of Spring quarter (June 14). Instructions on enrolling in the e-learning module can be found on the How Students Learn page on Sched.com. Consult your TAC or graduate SAO or email tatp@teaching.ucla.edu with questions regarding How Students Learn.🚨

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Monday October 2, 2023 9:00am - Sunday June 30, 2024 5:00pm PDT

4:00pm PDT

Difficult Conversations in Office Hours

This workshop will explore strategies for organizing office hours, for effective one-on-one communication, and for setting boundaries. TAs will review case studies of real office hour challenges and will discuss strategies for maneuvering those difficult moments. Participants will walk away with a list of campus resources they can connect their students to and with renewed confidence in hosting office hours.

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Difficult Conversations in Office Hours

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Monday October 16, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

1:00pm PDT

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Science

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Sammy Solis

Tuesday October 17, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PDT

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Sonya Brooks

Tuesday October 17, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Zoom

1:00pm PDT

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Sonya Brooks

Wednesday October 18, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PDT

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Sammy Solis

Thursday October 19, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PDT

Active Learning Strategies: STEM

As facilitators of discussion sections, STEM TAs are frequently concerned that they will spend sections solving problems at the board for passive students. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in STEM classrooms. You will learn strategies for asking effective questions, engaging students in problem solving, encouraging deductive reasoning, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for STEM Discussion Sections

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Sonya Brooks

Monday October 23, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Zoom

2:00pm PDT

Careers in Teaching and Learning

During your experience as a TA, you build up an arsenal of transferable skills: organizing, public speaking, facilitating, providing verbal and written feedback, and so much more. While teaching experience is certainly applicable to continuing a career in academia, there are just as many possible career paths outside of academia where you can apply your experience and skills. In this workshop, presenters will relate teaching skills to careers in industry, the public sector, and higher education. You will identify the unique strengths you've developed during your teaching experience as well as plan next steps toward pursuing the career paths that interest you.

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Careers in Teaching & Learning

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Tuesday October 24, 2023 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT

10:00am PDT

How Students Learn

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

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Foundations: How Students Learn

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Friday October 27, 2023 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PDT

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Beth Goodhue

Monday October 30, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Zoom

10:00am PDT

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Science

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Kate Schaller

Tuesday October 31, 2023 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
Zoom

3:00pm PDT

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Wednesday November 1, 2023 3:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PDT

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Brittany Goodwell

Thursday November 2, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PDT

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Science

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Caroline Kong

Friday November 3, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PST

How Students Learn

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

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Foundations: How Students Learn

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Monday November 6, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PST
Zoom

5:00pm PST

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Monday November 6, 2023 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Zoom

1:00pm PST

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Kim DeBacco

Tuesday November 7, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Zoom

4:00pm PST

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Beth Goodhue

Tuesday November 7, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PST
Zoom

3:00pm PST

How Students Learn

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

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Foundations: How Students Learn

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Beth Goodhue

Wednesday November 8, 2023 3:00pm - 4:30pm PST
Zoom

10:00am PST

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Science

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Kate Schaller

Monday November 13, 2023 10:00am - 11:30am PST
Zoom

5:00pm PST

Active Learning Strategies: STEM

As facilitators of discussion sections, STEM TAs are frequently concerned that they will spend sections solving problems at the board for passive students. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in STEM classrooms. You will learn strategies for asking effective questions, engaging students in problem solving, encouraging deductive reasoning, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for STEM Discussion Sections

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Mark Kayser

Monday November 13, 2023 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Zoom

1:00pm PST

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Kim DeBacco

Tuesday November 14, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Zoom

10:00am PST

How Students Learn

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

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Foundations: How Students Learn

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Kim Ballard

Wednesday November 15, 2023 10:00am - 11:30am PST
Zoom

1:00pm PST

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Friday November 17, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Zoom

4:00pm PST

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Kumiko Haas

Monday November 20, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PST
Zoom

4:00pm PST

Best Practices for Preparing Your Teaching Portfolio

Teaching portfolios are a unique platform for graduate students to collect, assess, and present evidence that demonstrates teaching efficacy, even when not requested as part of an application. During this workshop, you will learn best practices for how to structure and build your portfolio. You will practice translating instructional experiences into strong portfolio entries that lead to concrete starting points for you to begin and maintain a teaching portfolio throughout your teaching career.

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Preparing your Teaching Portfolio

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Wednesday November 29, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PST
Zoom

4:00pm PST

Crafting the Teaching Statement

A well-constructed teaching statement must draw upon your genuine, specific, and informed beliefs about education, pedagogy, and creating inclusive learning communities. In this session and writing lab, you will begin to develop a personal teaching philosophy and practice reflective methods that will help track pivotal teaching moments in order to articulate your own approach to teaching.

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Thursday November 30, 2023 4:00pm - 5:30pm PST
Zoom

1:00pm PST

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Thursday December 7, 2023 1:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Zoom

12:00pm PST

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Thursday January 18, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Zoom

5:00pm PST

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Thursday January 18, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Zoom

12:00pm PST

How Students Learn

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

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Foundations: How Students Learn

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Friday January 19, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Zoom

3:00pm PST

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Monday January 22, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm PST
Zoom

5:00pm PST

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Thursday January 25, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Zoom

10:00am PST

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Wednesday January 31, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am PST
Zoom

5:00pm PST

Active Learning Strategies: STEM

As facilitators of discussion sections, STEM TAs are frequently concerned that they will spend sections solving problems at the board for passive students. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in STEM classrooms. You will learn strategies for asking effective questions, engaging students in problem solving, encouraging deductive reasoning, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for STEM Discussion Sections

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Thursday February 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Zoom

3:00pm PST

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Science

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Monday February 5, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm PST
Zoom

5:00pm PST

How Students Learn

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

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Foundations: How Students Learn

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Thursday February 8, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
Zoom

12:00pm PST

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Tuesday February 13, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Zoom

12:00pm PST

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Friday February 16, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Zoom

10:00am PST

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Wednesday February 21, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am PST
Zoom

2:00pm PST

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Monday February 26, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm PST
Zoom

3:00pm PST

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Monday February 26, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm PST
Zoom

10:00am PST

How Students Learn

This workshop will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

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Foundations: How Students Learn

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Wednesday February 28, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am PST
Zoom

8:00am PDT

Spring Quarter Sessions - Schedule will be posted soon

Spring Sessions TBD. Please check back at a later time.

Monday April 1, 2024 8:00am - 5:00pm PDT
TBA

9:00am PDT

How Students Learn

Self-enroll in the How Students Learn e-learning module in Bruin Learn.

This e-learning module will offer an overview of how students learn and teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students hold onto the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ drives to learn, and use activities to encourage students to set goals. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.

How to access the How Students Learn e-learning module

Click on the How Students Learn e-learning module in Bruin Learn
Log in with your UCLA logon
Click on the "Enroll in Course" button
Complete the module and summative quiz

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Monday April 8, 2024 9:00am - Friday June 7, 2024 11:59pm PDT
e-learning module

2:00pm PDT

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Tuesday April 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Zoom

4:00pm PDT

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Tuesday April 9, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Zoom

2:00pm PDT

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Friday April 12, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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4:00pm PDT

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Science

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Friday April 12, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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4:00pm PDT

Nuts and Bolts of Lesson Planning

This workshop will serve as a model for effective lesson planning, focusing on formulating measurable learning objectives and aligning teaching strategies to them. With guidance, you will break down the process of creating effective lesson plans into manageable steps and tailor these steps to the needs of your discipline. You will practice creating a sample lesson plan and receive constructive feedback on it from your peers.

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Foundations: The Nuts & Bolts of Lesson Planning

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Tuesday April 16, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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2:00pm PDT

Active Learning Strategies: Humanities, Arts and Social Science

Discussion sections are often the most rewarding part of class. Yet, as moderators of these discussions, TAs are frequently concerned that they will be staring at blank faces for an hour. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in your classrooms. You will take home strategies for designing good discussion questions, promoting active reading, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Discussion Sections

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Thursday April 18, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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12:00pm PDT

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to proactively set norms supportive of an inclusive classroom. Through self-reflection, you will develop an understanding of your own identities and how these identities appear in the classroom. This workshop focuses on proactive strategies rather than on confronting bias. You will identify and practice inclusive strategies to apply in your own classrooms.

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Foundations: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Dyese Elliott-Newton

Friday April 19, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
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2:00pm PDT

Assessment & Grading: Measuring Student Achievement in the Classroom

How is assessment different from grading? Do you know when students have learned the knowledge and skills required to introduce new material? How can you best assess and grade students via Zoom? In this workshop, you will discuss the difference between assessment and grading, the importance of incorporating assessment into your approach to instruction, and various assessment techniques to gauge student learning. You will learn to identify appropriate ways to evaluate student growth, develop a system for measuring your effectiveness in the classroom, and learn ways to more fairly grade your students.

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Foundations: Assessment & Grading

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Friday April 19, 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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4:00pm PDT

Active Learning Strategies: STEM

As facilitators of discussion sections, STEM TAs are frequently concerned that they will spend sections solving problems at the board for passive students. This workshop will go over the principles of active learning and how to implement active learning strategies in STEM classrooms. You will learn strategies for asking effective questions, engaging students in problem solving, encouraging deductive reasoning, and eliciting participation from reluctant students.

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Foundations: Active Learning Strategies for STEM Discussion Sections

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Elaine Jessica Tamargo

Friday April 19, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
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