Senior Lead Graduate Teaching Fellow, Cornell University

Term: 2023 - 2024

My role: Each year, one Lead Graduate Teaching Fellow is invited to return to the program in their third year as the Senior Lead Teaching Fellow. In this role, I will complete all of the responsibilities associated with my previous role as a Lead Graduate Teaching Fellow. In addition, I have the following responsibilities:

• Lead an information session on the CTI Fellows program.
  
• Serve on the CTI Fellows selection committee (review applications and conduct interviews for all applicants).
  
• Plan and facilitate CTI Fellows training in the Fall and Spring.
  
• Plan the graduate student and postdoctoral scholar teaching workshop program.
  
• Lead biweekly CTI Fellows meetings.
  
• Lead biweekly CTI Lead Fellows meetings.
  
• Review draft workshops from all Fellows.
  
• Coordinate all communication and announcements within the CTI Fellows group.
  
• Coordinate quarterly newsletters for the entire teaching community at Cornell.
  
• Organize a university-wide teaching conference.
• Collect and analyze feedback on the CTI Fellows program from workshop participants and from current fellows.
• Make recommendations for future iterations of the CTI Fellows program.

Workshops created and facilitated: “Steps to developing a strong workshop”, “Roles and responsibilities of CTI Fellows”, “Role of TAs in cultivating an inclusive classroom”, “Effective grading and feedback”, “Essentials of teaching: Peer review”, “Developing your teaching portfolio”, “Refining and editing your diversity statement”

Sample materials: I created a workshop on the “Roles and responsibilities of CTI Fellows” as part of the Fall 2023 CTI Fellows training. The workshop included a “jigsaw” group activity, where Fellows first learned about a new topic from a Lead Fellow, and then shared their knowledge with a new group. The jigsaw activity worksheet is provided below.

• I created a workshop on the “Roles and responsibilities of CTI Fellows” as part of the Fall 2023 CTI Fellows training. The workshop included a “jigsaw” group activity, where Fellows first learned about a new topic from a Lead Fellow, and then shared their knowledge with a new group. The jigsaw activity worksheet is provided here.
• Slides and a worksheet from the “Developing your teaching portfolio” workshop.