What influences student learning and experiences in the classroom? This SGSI course will ignite your curiosity, utilize and develop research skills, and discover pedagogical literature that will guide your design of a project centered on understanding and ultimately improving student outcomes.

Designing this Teaching as Research (TAR) project will help you become a more reflective instructor who can use classroom evidence to improve and inform their teaching.

Instructors

• Gloriana Trujillo, PhD, senior director, Academic Teaching Programs in the Center for Teaching and Learning
• Jamie Imam, PhD, advanced lecturer, Biology
• Shima Salehi, PhD, assistant professor, Graduate School of Education

Audience & Capacity

Open to all graduate students in any discipline* and postdoctoral scholars (if space allows). We will prioritize enrollment for those more advanced in their teaching careers or who have started or completed the Associate level CIRTL@Stanford teaching certificate. Space limited to 16.

*MSx Class of 2025 and first-year MBA students are ineligible to participate due to mandatory program requirements.