Apr 10 2025

Professional Development: How Graduate Students Can Leverage Their Teaching Experience

Tea and Teaching: a Series for Grad TAs

April 10, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Location

Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) Room 201 or online on Zoom

Overview

Your experience as a teaching assistant can be a significant asset in shaping your academic and professional future, regardless of the career path you choose. This session will help you effectively document your teaching accomplishments and articulate them to align with the requirements of the roles you are pursuing. Graduate students will identify transferable skills gained through teaching, explore strategies for presenting teaching experience in CVs, resumes, and interviews, and discuss professional development opportunities tailored to their goals. The session will also feature a panel of professionals from diverse instructional backgrounds in higher education, offering insights on how teaching has influenced their careers.

After participating in this event, graduate students will have:

  • Identified key skills for their personal and professional goals.
  • Developed a plan to leverage their teaching experience to get the career role they want.
  • Learned about professional development opportunities at UIC and beyond.

EVENT FORMAT: This event will be in a synchronous-distributed format. It is an on-campus, in-person event with the option to join online via live streaming.

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. CATE’s online events are delivered through Zoom, will use Zoom auto-captions, and may include breakout rooms and group discussion. Sessions will use Zoom projected with the Zoom into the physical space. The TEB space also has built-in ceiling microphones throughout the room so Zoom attendees can hear the session facilitators and conversation from in-person attendees. 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

Nov 25, 2024

Date updated

Nov 25, 2024