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Graduate Student Professional Development Programs


GK-12 Fellows will take advantage of the existing professional development opportunities offered at UT. To augment the formal course taught by Duke, Fellows will work personally with the GK-12 Program Coordinators and Principal Investigators to customize an assemblage of these existing opportunities:

Advancing Students' Professional Excellence with Certificates in Teaching Series (Sponsored by the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment) - ASPECTS encourages ongoing pedagogical, personal, and professional development through workshop sessions that may be taken individually, or as a set in order to earn a certificate.

Discovery Learning Project (Sponsored by UTeach) - DLP promotes development and use of discovery/inquiry-based methods of teaching and learning. Monthly catered-lunch seminars by visiting experts provide a relaxed setting for Fellows to interact with the UT science education community.

Preparing Future Faculty (Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies) - PFF prepares graduate students interested in an academic career on the roles of teaching and service through graduate-level courses.

Graduate Student Instructor (Sponsored by the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment) - GSI is a series of workshops that takes two different approaches (depending on the Fellow's interest) to build interactive teaching skills and to use those skills to develop learning communities.

Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program (Sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies) - IEP is premised on the belief that intellect is not limited to academia and entrepreneurship is not restricted to the business sector. IEP is committed to developing innovative, collaborative, and sustainable ways for universities to work with their communities to solve complex problems, and to develop 'citizen-scholars'.

Professional Development and Community Engagement (Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies) - PDCE enables graduate students to make meaningful impacts in their professions, with a focus on working directly with the local community to solve complex problems, via community engagement projects, internships, formal courses, and workshops.