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College Teaching Preparation Program

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The College Teaching Preparation Program is open to graduate students in all disciplines and regardless of your current teaching duties. The program recognizes graduate students who engage in professional development around teaching with a certificate of completion. The program will be especially beneficial to graduate teaching assistants and those whose career plans may include teaching.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By completing the program, you are expected to make progress in your ability to: 

  1. Apply backward course design principles
  2. Implement effective learning activities 
  3. Assess student learning 
  4. Develop inclusive and ethical learning environments
  5. Reflect on their own growth and development around teaching and learning

These learning outcomes are derived from the graduate student competencies developed by Linda von Hoene, Linda B. Nilson, and Greg Siering.

REQUIREMENTS

There are multiple pathways to complete the program: 

  • Option #1: Complete GCOLL 516 and GCOLL 597
  • Option #2: Complete GCOLL 516 twice
  • Option #3: Complete GCOLL 516 OR GCOLL 597 + 5 additional activities
  • Option #4: Complete 10 activities

If you choose option #4, your activities should be chosen in consultation with the program coordinator in the CTL (Megan Frary, meganfrary@boisestate.edu) to ensure that they align with your career goals and current teaching responsibilities (if any).  At least four of the activities will be CTL workshops. These four workshops should align with the first four learning outcomes (one workshop per outcome).  The other six activities may also be CTL workshops. If you are teaching your own course, you are encouraged to have a MAP (mid-semester assessment).  Completing the MAP, the follow-up meeting, and submitting a short reflection and action plan will fulfill one of the activity requirements.  

DELIVERABLES

The culminating activity will be a reflection on your growth and development, especially as it relates to the learning outcomes of the program.  In addition to completing the activity tracking form (see “How to Track Your Activities”), please answer the following questions in a Google doc and share it with meganfrary@boisestate.edu.

  1. For each of the first four learning outcomes (LOs) stated earlier:
    1. Identify which of the activities you completed primarily contributed to your progress on that LO.
    2. In about one paragraph for each, give a specific example of how you plan to implement something related to that LO in your future teaching work, as well as why doing so will benefit students’ learning.
  2. Explain at least three ways in which your beliefs about teaching and learning have changed as a result of the activities you completed.  Give specific examples of the activities that contributed to these shifts.
  3. If you have had teaching responsibilities while working on the program, describe how that work has been impacted by your participation.  
  4. Include a link to your activity tracking sheet for easy reference.  

HOW TO SIGN UP

Please complete this enrollment form to enroll in the program.  

HOW TO TRACK YOUR ACTIVITIES

Access this google tracking sheet; you’ll be prompted to make a copy.  Share the sheet with meganfrary@boisestate.edu.

As you work through the ten activities, keep the sheet updated.  You will submit the completed sheet along with your final reflection.Â