The Center for Educational Effectiveness offers courses faculty, graduate students, and staff can take to build their teaching skill set. Below is a list of the current offerings.
Courses
(Fall 2025) EDU 398: Seminar on College Teaching
Seminar on College Teaching: EDU 398
CRN: TBA
Note: In Fall 2025, EDU 398: Seminar on College Teaching will be taught in person at the Teaching and Learning Complex.
The Seminar on College Teaching is an interactive course designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars develop essential skills for effective instruction in college-level courses. If you plan to teach undergraduates in your career, this course provides you with core skills based on foundational and emerging research-based practices on how students learn. Students engage with classmates in thought-provoking discussions and activities about the implementation of pedagogical techniques in a university classroom setting. Activities and topics will include:
- examining how students learn
- articulating course outcomes
- applying principles of course design
- aligning learning activities to meet course outcomes
- scaffolding instruction to support learning
- implementing active learning
- creating meaningful and transparent assignments
- establishing an inclusive and equitable learning environment
- designing and participating in micro-teaching sessions
- exploring the ethics of Generative AI in education
Course Credit and Recognition
The Seminar on College Teaching is open to graduate students and postdocs. Graduate students should register for two units of credit. Postdocs can also participate (pending availability) and complete all seminar requirements without registering for credit; email the instructor to register. Participants who complete all course requirements will earn recognition of completion that can be included on your curriculum vitae and in your teaching portfolio.
2024-2025 Seminar on College Teaching Course Offerings
The Seminar on College Teaching will be offered during Fall 2024, Winter 2025, and Spring 2025 quarters. Enrollment is limited; please register early.
2024-2025 Seminar on College Teaching Course Offerings
- Term: Fall 2025.
- CRN: TBD (enrollment capped at 20).
- Instructor: Patricia Turner, Ph.D., Education Specialist for Graduate Student Instructional Development, Center for Educational Effectiveness (amforester@ucdavis.edu) - please email for questions and/or to joining mailing list for CRN (once available).
- Course day/time: Wednesdays 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
- Location: Teaching and Learning Complex, Room 1213
(Spring 2025) EDU 398: Seminar on College Teaching
Seminar on College Teaching: EDU 398
CRN: 38809
Note: In Spring 2025, EDU 398: Seminar on College Teaching will be taught in person at the Teaching and Learning Complex.
The Seminar on College Teaching is an interactive course designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars develop essential skills for effective instruction in college-level courses. If you plan to teach undergraduates in your career, this course provides you with core skills based on foundational and emerging research-based practices on how students learn. Students engage with classmates in thought-provoking discussions and activities about the implementation of pedagogical techniques in a university classroom setting. Activities and topics will include:
- examining how students learn
- articulating course outcomes
- applying principles of course design
- aligning learning activities to meet course outcomes
- scaffolding instruction to support learning
- implementing active learning
- creating meaningful and transparent assignments
- establishing an inclusive and equitable learning environment
- designing and participating in micro-teaching sessions
- leveraging the affordances of Generative AI in teaching
Course Credit and Recognition
The Seminar on College Teaching is open to graduate students and postdocs. Graduate students should register for two units of credit. Postdocs can also participate (pending availability) and complete all seminar requirements without registering for credit; email the instructor to register. Participants who complete all course requirements will earn recognition of completion that can be included on your curriculum vitae and in your teaching portfolio.
2024-2025 Seminar on College Teaching Course Offerings
The Seminar on College Teaching will be offered during Fall 2023, Winter 2024, and Spring 2024 quarters. Enrollment is limited; please register early.
2024-2025 Seminar on College Teaching Course Offerings
- Term: Spring 2025.
- CRN: 38809 (enrollment capped at 18).
- Instructor: Katie Healey, PhD, CPACC, Center for Educational Effectiveness (khhealey@ucdavis.edu)
- Course day/time: Thursdays 1:10-3:00PM
- Location: Teaching and Learning Complex, Room 1211