Grad Grow Learning Opportunities

Use this worksheet from VPGE to structure a yearly progress discussion with your faculty advisor. It is meant to help you review your past year's accomplishments, discuss long and short term plans, and develop a strategy for making your goals a reality. 

The Graduate Teaching Consultants program is an opportunity for experienced TAs to use their expertise to support other graduate students and promote excellence in teaching. Consultants provide direct support to their peers in the form of consultations, workshops, and course observation. See the CTL website to apply to be a consultant. 

Hume Center writing tutors work with undergraduate and graduate students on all kinds of writing projects, from term papers to dissertations. This is a paid position for which graduate students from all disciplines who are passionate about writing and teaching are welcome to apply. Applications are accepted once per year, usually during winter quarter; all tutors will be required to enroll in a training course. 

Become a language conversation partner and help Stanford students develop their foreign language skills. Through this Center for Teaching and Learning program, partners meet one-on-one with language students by appointment to help develop skills through conversational practice. Languages include Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish.

Hume Center Oral Communication Tutors work with graduate and undergraduate students on all aspects of public speaking and oral presentations, including brainstorming, delivery, and visual aids. This is a paid position for which graduate students from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. A two-unit training course is required; tutors ordinarily work 4-6 hours per week.

CIRTL’s mission is to enhance excellence in STEM undergraduate education by developing a faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices for diverse learners.