Graduate Assistant Teaching Institute (GRED960)

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The Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning facilitates the Graduate Teaching Assistant Institute (GRED 960), also known as GATI, each fall and spring semester. GRED 960 provides graduate students the opportunity to receive professional development and training on the basics of teaching, pedagogy, and student learning so they may serve more effectively as Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) or Graduate Assistant Instructors (GAIs) in their academic units. GRED 960 should be used to complement and augment additional professional development activities offered within each graduate student’s academic unit and college.

Graduate students that successfully complete GRED 960 may serve as instructors of record under the Graduate Assistant Instructor (GAI) designation if hired to do so by their academic unit and after fulfilling the requirements of Academic Policy 1.1122. 

What will GRED 960 be like?

GRED 960 is offered in both the fall and spring semester. The class meets once a week for the first six weeks of the semester.  Students complete required activities and assignments before class allowing class time to be used for activities such as case study analysis, role-playing opportunities, peer review work, small group work, and discussion.  

Topics in GRED 960 include:

Leading an effective first day of class

Creating a learning community in the classroom

Creating measurable learning objectives

Designing formative and summative assessments that align with objectives

Designing a class lesson plan

Classroom management

How students learn

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