CIRTL Network Spring 2024 Offerings

Posted on January 16, 2024
CIRTL at UIC

Registration is open for free online programs and events geared towards helping graduate students and postdoctoral scholars develop teaching skills and prepare for the academic job market. These opportunities are offered through the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) network, which UIC is a member of through a Graduate College and CATE partnership and are open to everyone in the UIC community.

This semester, there are events, courses, and workshops on:

  • Academic professional development
  • Evidence-based teaching fundamentals
  • Science communication
  • Teaching-as-Research

Some offerings have registration caps, so for best consideration please register early. By completing CIRTL programming, participants can earn a certification documenting their commitment to developing their pedagogical knowledge and teaching skills. You can learn more about and find registration links for programming by category:

CIRTL learning communities

Academic Professional Development

Research Mentor Training

Work with a community of peers to develop and improve your research mentoring skills in this 5-week seminar-style course. Students will develop their personal mentoring philosophy, learn how to articulate that philosophy across a variety of disciplines, and refine strategies for dealing with mentoring challenges.

Preparing Your Teaching Demo for a Job Interview

As part of the interview process for a faculty position in the U.S., you may be asked to lead a teaching demonstration. In this one-session workshop, we’ll discuss ways to go into your teaching demo with preparedness, confidence, and adaptability.

Exploring Career Paths with CIRTL Alumni

Learn about different career paths in academia and beyond in conversation with CIRTL alumni in this 4-part event series. Each event in the series will focus on a different career path: teaching careers at research universities, teaching careers at teaching-intensive institutions (liberal arts colleges, community colleges, etc.), non-faculty careers in academia, and careers outside of academia.

Learning through diversity

Caring for Yourself as an Instructor: Applying Rest in the Classroom

Develop strategies for self-care as an instructor in this one-part workshop. Working off of Tricia Hersey’s (2022) Rest is Resistance framework, we will explore Hersey’s “Rest” component to identify tools for self-care, rest, and protection as an instructor existing and working in academic spaces.

  • This workshop meets via Zoom on Thursday, February 8 at 10-11:30 am CT
  • Registration opens Tuesday, January 16 at 11 am CT
  • Registration cap of 15

 

The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series

Get a sampler of academic professional development in this 8-part event series covering everything from the academic hiring process, to defining your teaching philosophy, to careers outside academia.

Teaching as Research

Evidence-Based Teaching

Mindset to Mastery: The Inclusive Teaching Course

Examine your own identities, values, and experiences to cultivate an inclusive mindset that informs your teaching practices in this 8-week course.

  • The course meets via Zoom on Tuesdays from March 5 to April 23 at 12-1:30 pm CT
  • Registration opens Monday, January 29 at 11 am CT
  • Registration cap of 25

Science Communication

Re-imagining data: Using arts-based methods for new perspectives in research, teaching and learning

Explore the creative potential of new ways of reading and analyzing text in this two-part workshop on arts-based research (ABR). Through the ABR approach of “poetic inquiry,” participants will learn new methods for reading, assessing, and analyzing journal articles, research, and other written materials in a variety of scientific disciplines.

  • The workshop meets via Zoom on Mondays, March 11 & 25 at 11 am-12:30 pm CT
  • Registration opens Monday, February 5 at 11 am CT
  • Registration cap of 40.

Teaching-as-Research

CIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations

Hear graduate students and postdocs from across the CIRTL Network share the results of their Teaching-as-Research (TAR) projects in this online event.

Modified on January 17, 2024