Graduate Student Professional Development
The Center for Integrated Professional Development offers three core professional development opportunities available specifically for graduate students interested in careers as instructors in higher education.
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Future Faculty Learning Community
This learning community circle serves graduate students who are interested in exploring issues related to college teaching, ranging from bread-and-butter pedagogical techniques, to strategies for making teaching more equitable, diverse, and inclusive, to classroom management and course organization tips and tricks.
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College Teaching for Future Faculty
This intensive introduction to evidence-based practices in college teaching is aligned strongly the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence. Through this program, participants craft multiple versions of their teaching philosophy tailored to different prompts (such as a diversity statement and an instructional technology philosophy) and develop the beginning of a robust teaching portfolio, suitable for job or award applications.
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Course Design for Future Faculty
Course Design for Future Faculty is the second program in the sequence, and guides participants through the creation of a college course from scratch, using the principle of backward design. This results in a course plan that could be used immediately in the classroom, as well as a further revised teaching portfolio and philosophy. Completion of College Teaching for Future Faculty is a prerequisite.
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Effective Tutoring Practices
This experience is designed for graduate assistants who do not have an instructor of record assignment but is appropriate for any graduate student who wants to learn more about tutoring and gain skills in mentoring undergraduates.
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Discover ways to promote EDI in your classes and across campus and explore ways to build a community of learners, deal with challenging subject matter, and meet the needs of a diverse student population.
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Instructional Strategy Consultations
Our Instructional Strategy Consultations let you sit down with a member of the Center staff to begin a systematic approach to dealing with a teaching/learning issue in your classroom.
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The Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
K. Patricia Cross endowed the Cross Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Illinois State University in honor of her father, Clarence L. Cross, a beloved teacher of physics at ISU for over 30 years.
The Cross Chair supports and enables the demonstration of Illinois State University’s commitment to the promotion of scholarship and research on the teaching and learning of Illinois State University students.