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When the Unexpected Occurs: Strategies for Navigating Classroom Challenges (ETL Badge Eligible)

Sometimes unforeseen challenges occur in the classroom. In this workshop, participants will explore and create strategies to address challenges that can occur and catch us off guard. NB: This workshop counts towards CELT's Essentials in Teaching and Learning Badge.

Creating Engaging Lessons (ETL Badge Eligible)

Planning lessons that support our learning goals is a central component of teaching. But how do we create lessons that foster student learning, engagement, and deep learning? In this workshop, we will discuss what makes a lesson engaging and provide strategies for designing dynamic learning experiences. NB: This workshop counts towards CELT's Essentials in Teaching and Learning Badge.

Cultivating Positive Rapport in the Classroom (ETL Badge Eligible)

Supportive learning environments center on positive rapport with students. This workshop explores strategies for cultivating positive rapport and encouraging peer-to-peer connections. Participants will come away with practical strategies and approaches to build meaningful connections that enhance student learning. NB: This workshop counts towards CELT's Essentials in Teaching and Learning Badge.

Experienced TA Panel (ETL Badge Eligible)

Join us for a discussion with experienced teaching assistants on their classroom teaching experiences and receive advice on how to make the most out of your TAship. Topics include classroom management strategies, student engagement and rapport, building community, grading, working with your TA supervisor, and navigating your role as teacher and student. NB: This workshop counts towards CELT's Essentials in Teaching and Learning (ETL) Badge.

2025 GradTeach Live! Finals Contest

Join us for a lively, energetic event at the UK Esports Theater in the Cornerstone building featuring graduate student instructors from across the University delivering quick, engaging talks about their teaching philosophies and approaches. Winners will receive cash prizes in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place categories as well as a people's choice category. Help us celebrate the work and wisdom of our graduate instructors at UK!

Graduate Badge: Student Evaluations and Feedback

Student evaluations at the end of the semester can evoke a range of emotions and create moments of vulnerability for educators, yet they can also offer some valuable insight for reflecting on our teaching practice. This workshop will explore what the research says about the validity and reliability of student feedback, strategies to get the most out of end-of-semester evaluations, and steps instructors can take to interpret that feedback. This workshop is geared toward gradute teaching assistants and counts toward the Essentials of Teaching and learning Badge.

Graduate Badge: Taming the Inner Teaching Critic

Have you ever wrestled with persistent nagging doubts about being qualified enough for your instructional role or whether your students perceive you as being a capable and competent instructor? Up to 70% of people experience these feelings/thoughts of being a fraud or imposter at least once in their life. In this session, we will learn more about imposter phenomenon and techniques for taming your inner teaching critic. NB: Graduate teaching badge eligible.

Graduate Badge: Identifying Your Teaching Personae

Who are you as a teacher? This workshop will guide graduate teaching assistants in exploring and defining their unique teaching personas. Through interactive activities and reflective discussions, participants will uncover their teaching values, strengths, and areas for growth. By aligning their personal characteristics with effective teaching practices, attendees will leave with a clearer sense of their identity in the classroom and practical strategies to enhance their teaching confidence and effectiveness.

CELT Launches Essentials in Teaching and Learning Badge for Graduate Students

Graduate instructors and teaching assistants are central to the undergraduate teaching mission of the University of Kentucky, yet they enter these pivotal roles with uneven experience, training, and resources/support for teaching effectiveness. CELT. fills this gap through the Essentials in Teaching and Learning Badge, which can be earned by graduate students, postdocs, professional students, and postgraduate fellows or trainees.

ITA Series: Active Learning Strategies to Mitigate Language Fatigue

If English is not your first language, you may find the first couple of years as a TA creates a sense of language exhaustion because of the constant verbal and written translation in the classroom. In this workshop, participants will learn and discuss teaching strategies that can help mitigate language exhaustion.