Have you just been awarded a contract as either a teaching assistant, a research assistant, an administrative assistant, or perhaps a dual appointment?

You will find the Center for Graduate Teaching Excellence website (www.siu.edu/~cgte) is designed to provide you information and ideas as you perform the various duties at SIUC. While our primary focus will be on helping support quality instruction, we will periodically provide information for other assistantship type duties as well.

Interested in attending ongoing workshops? Periodically we offer 'repeat' sessions of previously held workshops. In addition we offer new and timely topics for your consideration. How about you building your resume by leading a workshop on a topic of potential interest to other teaching assistants? Send us a note.

Fall 2008 SIUC Classroom Equipment Training

The week prior to the beginning of the academic year we offer a variety of workshops for new graduate assistants. The tentative schedule for the Fall 2008 Graduate Assistant Training and Orientation is here.

We also want to recognize the many PRESENTERS (2007, 2008) who have shared or will share their insight and suggestions.

Looking for answers to several questions about going into the classroom to teach? Have you had challenges while previously teaching? Want to read what some "outstanding SIUC teachers" suggest?               more...

As you find / try techniques that are useful, please send us feedback. Also, when YOU develop a new technique in your instructional repertoire, e-mail it to us for consideration and recognition of what you have found successful.                   more...

Dale Brown, Acting Director
Center for Graduate Teaching Excellence
The Graduate School, SIUC