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  • EDUC 213  | 2023-2024
    Key concepts in teaching and learning; teacher content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge; student prior knowledge and preconceptions; cognition and metacognition; classroom culture, motivation, and management; teaching diverse populations; comparison of teaching models; analysis of teaching; standards, accountability, and assessment of learning; assessing teaching quality; online learning and teaching.
  • DLCL 303  | 2023-2024
    Administrative Internship in Language Program Management. Experiences can include, but are not limited to, the following: Shadow faculty and staff in select areas of administration and supervision within the Language Center and DLCL; Placement testing and student advisement; Technology in teaching and learning; Processes for teacher observation and feedback; Procedures ...
  • PHYSICS 295  | 2023-2024
    This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergraduate level. Course will involve readings, discussion, and application of the ideas ...
  • ENGR 295  | 2023-2024
    This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergraduate level. Course will involve readings, discussion, and application of the ideas ...
  • EDUC 280  | 2023-2024
    This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergraduate level. Course will involve readings, discussion, and application of the ideas ...
  • MED 270  | 2023-2024
    This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the relevant research in cognitive psychology and science education and the ability to apply that knowledge to enhance their ability to learn and teach science, particularly at the undergraduate level. Course will involve readings, discussion, and application of the ideas ...
  • EDUC 230  | 2023-2024
    This course explores the design of tools for learning, leveraging scholarship and real-world projects to create prototypes of new digital learning tools. Students will engage in design activities to come up with prototypes of new learning tools for community partners. This year the course will focus on museums. Designing these ...
  • EDUC 366  | 2023-2024 Autumn

    Instructors:

    • Fereday, B.
    • Barron, B.
    How learning opportunities are organized in schools and non-school settings including museums, after-school clubs, community art centers, theater groups, aquariums, sports teams, and new media contexts. Sociocultural theories of development as a conceptual framework. Readings from empirical journals, web publications, and books.Collaborative written or multimedia research project in which students ...
  • ME 492  | 2023-2024 Winter

    Instructors:

    • Mitiguy, P.
    • Martin, S.
    • Elnahhas, A.
    In this interactive seminar course, students will learn active learning and inclusive teaching strategies as well as receive support for serving as a CA/TA in an engineering context. Intended for current and future CAs/TAs in Mechanical Engineering or related departments, the course will also feature a workshop on collecting feedback ...
  • ENGLISH 396L  | 2023-2024 Autumn

    Instructors:

    • Bronstein, M.
    Required for first-year Ph.D students in English. Prerequisite for teaching required for Ph.D. students in English, Modern Thought and Literature and Comparative Literature. Preparation for surviving as teaching assistants in undergraduate literature courses. Focus is on leading discussions and grading papers.
  • EDUC 337  | 2023-2024 Winter

    Instructors:

    • Levine, S.
    • Phalen, L.
    Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to developing teachers with attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach diverse students. Cardinal Course certified by the ...
  • EDUC 319  | 2023-2024
    Introduction and historical perspective to theory, methods, and substantive findings of research on teaching.
  • ENGR 312  | 2023-2024 Winter

    Instructors:

    • Sheppard, S.
    • Horii, C.
    For students interested in an academic career and who anticipate designing science or engineering courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Goal is to apply research on science and engineering learning to the design of effective course materials. Topics include syllabus design, course content and format decisions, assessment planning and ...
  • CTL 312  | 2023-2024 Winter

    Instructors:

    • Sheppard, S.
    • Horii, C.
    For students interested in an academic career and who anticipate designing science or engineering courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Goal is to apply research on science and engineering learning to the design of effective course materials. Topics include syllabus design, course content and format decisions, assessment planning and ...
  • CS 298  | 2023-2024 Autumn

    Instructors:

    • Gregg, C.
    Faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students interested in teaching discuss topics raised by teaching computer science at the introductory level. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
  • EDUC 298  | 2023-2024
    Faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students interested in teaching discuss topics raised by teaching computer science at the introductory level. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
  • EFSLANG 692  | 2023-2024 Spring, Autumn

    Instructors:

    • Streichler, S.
    This course is an opportunity for international students to develop their oral communication and teaching skills to be a course assistant, teaching assistant, or instructor, especially those planning an academic career in an English-speaking context. It focuses on understanding the culture of the classroom and on developing clarity and communicative ...
  • MUSIC 280  | 2023-2024 Spring

    Instructors:

    • Kim, K.
    • Gilbert, M.
    Required for doctoral students serving as teaching assistants. Orientation to resources at Stanford, guest presentations on the principles of common teaching activities, supervised teaching experience. Students who entered in the Autumn should take 280 in the Spring prior to the Autumn they begin teaching.
  • LINGUIST 394  | 2023-2024 Autumn

    Instructors:

    • Zaitsu, A.
    • Levin, B.
    For second-year graduate students in Linguistics