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Graduate Student Instructor Resources

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General Resources

General Resource (Link) Institution Description
Teaching Guide for GSI's Berkeley Graduate Division Teaching Guide for Graduate Student Instructors (GSI).
Community Psychology Knowledge Hub Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) Search engine for educators filtered by resource type (syllabi, video, slide deck, etc), topics, and courses.
Teaching & Learning Resources Boston University Summer teaching, AI, Starting semester, Strategies, Lightning talks
Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship Teaching Resources Georgetown University Teaching Guides, Toolkits, Resources
Search Teaching & Learning Resources Harvard University Search for Resources allows you to browse those resources pertaining to a specific role or enter a search term in the search bar.
Blended and Online Learning Guide Vanderbilt University Research on the learning possibilities offered through online and blended learning, as well as effective practices.

Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Accessibility

Inclusive Guide (Link) Institution Description
Community Psychology Knowledge Hub Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) Search engine for educators filtered by resource type, topics (including diversity, intersectionality, social justice, racial justice, climate justice, LGBTQIA, systemic inequality, etc), and courses.
Critical Practices for Social Justice Education Southern Poverty Law Center Classroom Culture, Instruction, School Climate, Teacher Leadership
Culturally Responsive & Inclusive Curriculum Resources Portland State University Guide, Resources, Examples.
Inclusive Teaching & Learning University of Texas at Austin Brief overview on how to create opportunities for all students to connect with you, the course material, and each other.
Inclusive & Accessible Teaching Resources University of Minnesota Multimedia teaching guides for developing accessible and inclusive courses and class sessions in face-to-face, online, and blended modalities.
Ideas and Strategies for TA-ing Inclusively and Equitably Online Graduate Student Blog Richard Wong, PhD student in Mathematics at UT wrote a blog post on strategies for TA's to teach inclusively and equitably in STEM.
Toolkit on Digital Inclusion NYU Guide, Toolkit, Resources.
Universal Design for Learning Guidelines: (A) UDL Guidelines ; (B) UDL for Higher Education : CAST Design guidelines for inclusive Engagement, Representation, Action & Expression

Tools and Podcasts

Tool (Link) Institution Description
Active Learning Library Teaching Tools Library of active learning tools. Searchable with filters.
Tea for Teaching Podcast John Kane & Rebecca Mushtare This podcast is a series of informal discussions of innovative and effective practices in teaching and learning.
Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast on digitial pedagogy, students, work/life, and teaching.
The Diversity Style Guide San Francisco State University The guide contains more than 700 terms related to race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography. You can browse by letter or by category.
Perusall Social Learning Platform Perusall Social learning platform that allows students to collectively annotate PDFs, videos, webpages, etc. It is free to create a course/club and load content, and free for students (this option must be enabled). It is not free to use textbooks.
Hypothes.is Social Learning Platform Hypothes.is Opensource social learning platform that allows students to collectively annotate PDFs and webpages through a browser extension. It is free to use.