Professional Development: How Graduate Students Can Leverage Their Teaching Experience
Tea and Teaching: a Series for Grad TAs
April 8, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
Teaching Excellence Building (TEB), Room 107 and Zoom
Address
924 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL
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Overview
Your teaching experience can be a valuable asset for your academic and professional career, wherever your path takes you. Learn how to document your teaching accomplishments and communicate your experience to align to the job you are pursuing. We’ll discuss professional development opportunities and hear from a panel of people from different instructional backgrounds and roles in higher education.
After participating in this event, graduate students will have:
- Identified key skills for their personal and professional goals.
- Develop a plan to leverage your TA experience.
- Learn about professional development opportunities at UIC and beyond.
This is a event is a part of our Tea and Teaching Series for Graduate Student Teaching Assistants (TAs).
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. If you have any accessibility questions, requests, or to coordinate accommodations, please contact the CATE team at teaching@uic.edu.
Date posted
Dec 10, 2025
Date updated
Dec 10, 2025