Current Graduate Programming
University-Wide GET SET Teaching Conference
Join other Cornell graduate students, postdocs, and TAs to discuss how to document your teaching experiences and excellence. This conference is an opportunity to have small group conversations about compiling your teaching portfolio with faculty and to build community with colleagues from across campus.
Read more about the University-Wide Teaching Conference.
Saturday, April 26, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m
Location: Stocking Hall
GET SET Institutes & Workshops
Essentials of Teaching II Institute
In this four-part workshop series, you will explore a variety of strategies to engage your students through active learning, incorporate Generative AI in your classes, and promote a collaborative learning environment to support all learners.
As a result of attending the institute, participants will be able to:
- Examine how and why active learning works.
- Discuss some of the most common active learning strategies and why they are effective.
Take each workshop individually or as a series. Participants who complete an entire institute (all 4 workshops) may request a letter of completion for their teaching portfolio (only Cornell students are eligible for the letter of completion).
The Essentials of Teaching II Institute has concluded for the Spring 2025 semester.
Read more about the Essentials of Teaching Institute.
Getting Started with Active Learning
- When: Held Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 12:00–1:15 p.m. (online via Zoom)
- How does active learning help people learn? What are some of the most common strategies you could implement in your classes? In this workshop, we will explore various active learning strategies and examine how they help students learn more effectively based on current educational and cognitive research.
AI in the Classroom
- When: Held Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 12:00–1:15 p.m. (online via Zoom)
- What is Generative AI? How could it impact teaching and learning in your classroom? Join us in an exploration of what GAI can do and how it can be adapted to support student learning in your discipline.
Building a Collaborative Learning Environment
- When: Held Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:00–1:15 p.m. (online via Zoom)
- How can you encourage active engagement with course content and promote in-class participation among students? This workshop explores collaborative learning strategies across a variety of disciplines.
Final Session: Capstone Activity
- When: Held Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 12:00–1:15 p.m. (online via Zoom)
- This workshop is for those who have completed the earlier workshops and would like a letter to document their participation in the Essentials of Teaching II Institute. The capstone experience is an opportunity for you to design and share activities that incorporate strategies from each of the workshops in a course you might teach in your field and receive peer-feedback.
Teaching Resources
Teaching Assistant Online Orientation
The TA Online Orientation, designed to prepare new graduate teaching assistants for success in their first few weeks of teaching, is a series of self-paced, asynchronous modules that introduce teaching essentials and resources available to support them while at Cornell.
Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom Online Course:
Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom is a four-week, self-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore social identity and self-reflection, strategies for inclusive course design, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.
Teaching Portfolio Program
A portfolio encourages you to document and reflect on your teaching at Cornell. Register at any time to be part of CTI’s Teaching Portfolio Program and gain access to resources, consultations, and support for your teaching.
Teaching with Technologies
If you're interested in resources to incorporate technology, CTI offers Upcoming Teaching with Technology Workshops.