Jan 16 2025

Building Community For Graduate Students

Tea and Teaching: a Series for Grad TAs

January 16, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Location

Teaching Excellence Building (TEB), Room 201

Address

924 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL

Overview

Graduate school brings unique challenges, from navigating new responsibilities and roles to building meaningful connections with peers and future colleagues. This event is designed to help TAs find support and grow professionally by fostering community within their academic circles, in their classrooms, and with each other. Participants will reflect on their expectations of being a grad TA, explore ways to build relationships and find supportive networks, and learn how to create a welcoming environment for their students. We’ll also use this initial session to also gather your ideas on how best to develop a supportive space for TAs in the months ahead.

After participating in this event, graduate students will have:

  • Met and learned about other graduate students and TAs
  • Identified support networks they can build to promote well-being, growth, and belonging in academic and social communities.
  • Developed strategies to cultivate community for self and classroom

EVENT FORMAT: This event will be held on-campus, in-person in room 201 in the Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) located on 924 S. Morgan Street. 

EVENT LEAD: Emily Potratz, epotra2@uic.edu

EVENT CO-FACILITATOR: Jenny Torres, jtorr74@uic.edu

Inclusion and Accessibility Information: CATE is committed to making events accessible. CATE’s in-person events typically involve a combination of presentation and discussion-based activities. We welcome ASL interpreters, note-takers, and accompanying assistants to in-person CATE events. The TEB is wheelchair accessible with an elevator to the second floor space. The TEB space is equipped with fixed-height tables that are moveable and can be reconfigured. There are single-occupancy, all-gender, accessible bathrooms on the second and basement levels of TEB. If you have any accessibility questions, requests, or to coordinate accommodations, please contact the CATE team at teaching@uic.edu.

Register

Contact

Emily Potratz

Date posted

Jul 30, 2024

Date updated

Nov 25, 2024