Past Events

Graduate Student Teaching Orientation Debrief Session Are you a graduate student teaching for the first time or looking for guidance on how to prepare for your first week of classes? If you haven't done so already, enroll in the Teaching Orientation for Graduate Students, organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning at this link to access resources on the following topics: Establishing instructional goals and an inclusive learning climate Reviewing and reflecting on TA roles and teaching support Creating a policy…

The Teaching Development Program (TDP) offers doctoral and MFA students a means to document and articulate their teaching development at Columbia. Completion of foundational or advanced tracks in the TDP is certified by the CTL and noted on transcripts in Arts and Sciences, SEAS, the School of the Arts, Business School, Mailman School of Public Health, School of Social Work, and the School of Nursing. For more information or to register, visit the TDP site at https://tdp.ctl.columbia.edu/. Students currently in the TDP and those thinking about…

The online Teaching as Research Seminar (TaRS) trains participants to assess the impact of teaching interventions in the classroom. Over the course of these five asynchronous modules, participants gain proficiency in the Teaching as Research (TaR) method by defining an original research question, exploring data collection and assessment tools, and drawing on the support of peers and the instructor to draft a complete TaR proposal. The seminar culminates in the presentation of these proposals to the seminar cohort. TaRS will run online from January 22 to March 3. While…

Speaker: Edward Chung, Professor, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Moderator: Seong Uk Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean Religions and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University

Speaker: Lynette Ong, Professor of Political Science, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Moderator: Junyan Jiang ,Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Woodblock Printers of the Mind: Problems of Analogy in Western and East Asian Descriptive Bibliography. We hope you’ll consider staying for dinner at Faculty House following the presentation at 7:00;  the meal costs $30 per person, payable here Where: Butler Library, room 523 Register here Contact: Anya Wilkening (abw2163@columbia.edu)

Speaker: Hsinning Liu, Academia Sinica Time: February 2, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. In Juyan Han manuscripts, distinct handwriting styles for personal names can be discerned within official documents. Through a review of prior research, I will argue that these represent signatures, and at least during the mid-Western Han period (around 50 BCE), the signature system was prevalent across the Empire. Moreover, drawing upon newly excavated…

Learn about and engage with backward design: a scalable, end-in-mind approach to instruction that will help you effectively plan an activity, a class session, or an entire course. In this workshop for graduate students, we will discuss how to use previously-determined and described learning objectives as part of the backward design approach to drive assignments, feedback, and in-class activities for students. Where: Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room/Area: 203 Contact: Center for Teaching and Learning,…