{"id":4033,"date":"2017-12-18T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T23:26:21","slug":"free-stem-teaching-course-for-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4033","title":{"rendered":"Free STEM Teaching course for graduate students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new initiative at UBC to train graduate students to teach as instructors in science undergraduate classes. This Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at\u00a0UBC offers students a certification as a CIRTL Associate, Practitioner, or Scholar which can boost your CV.<\/p>\n<p>To become a CIRTL Associate, you can participate in our Foundations of Pedagogy course. The course is non-credit and free of charge.\u00a0At the end of the one-term course, you will be able to\u00a0use concepts in evidence-based teaching to effectively teach a lesson in a STEM undergraduate classroom, with emphasis on alignment of learning objectives, activities, and assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule:<\/p>\n<p>Tuesdays, 2 pm \u2013 4 pm, January 09, 2018 \u2013 March 06, 2018 (no course during reading week).<\/p>\n<p>Koerner Library, RM216<\/p>\n<p>More information and sign-up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cirtl.ubc.ca\/get-involved\/foundations-of-pedagogy\/\">http:\/\/cirtl.ubc.ca\/get-involved\/foundations-of-pedagogy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions:<\/p>\n<p>If you have any question about this course or CIRTL, please contact\u00a0cirtl.info@ubc.ca<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Lacey Samuels<\/p>\n<p>CIRTL co-leader<\/p>\n<p>Prof. A. Lacey Samuels<\/p>\n<p>Department of Botany<\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>phone: (604) 822-5469<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new initiative at UBC to train graduate students to teach as instructors in science undergraduate classes. This Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at\u00a0UBC offers students a certification as a CIRTL Associate, Practitioner, or Scholar which can boost your CV. To become a CIRTL Associate, you can participate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}