Graduate Teaching Fellows

The Graduate Teaching Fellows are a cadre of graduate students with a demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence who wish to further develop their teaching and professional skills, and contribute to the pedagogical development of their fellow graduate students.

Appointed for a full academic year, with the possibility of reappointment in subsequent years, Graduate Teaching Fellows work with the Searle Center to produce programming and resources to improve teaching by graduate students at Northwestern. Selected in the spring via a competitive application process, the Fellowship comes with a stipend of $3000. The 2012-13 application is available now.

The Graduate Teaching Fellows program is co-sponsored by the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and The Graduate School.

Responsibilities of Graduate Teaching Fellows include:

  • Participate in summer training
  • Master key learning theory principles, teaching techniques, and workshop facilitation skills
  • Develop and deliver workshops at the New TA Conference
  • Facilitate one topical workshop in winter or spring quarter
  • Develop teaching resources for graduate students in your department
  • Observe graduate students in the classroom and provide feedback
  • Attend regular Fellows meetings to discuss program initiatives and teaching practices, and to get feedback on workshops and other resources in development

Benefits for Fellows:

  • Gain valuable experience in teaching and learning issues, peer facilitation, and program development
  • Contribute to the development of a vibrant culture of teaching and learning among graduate students at Northwestern

Questions?

Email or call Joseph Lampert, Associate Director at the Searle Center, 847-467-2274

Application Requirements

PhD students from any department can apply to be a Graduate Teaching Fellow, provided that they:

  • Have participated in the TA Fellows or Graduate Teaching Certificate Program at the Searle Center
  • Have taught for two quarters at NU (either as a TA or as an instructor)
  • Will have passed their qualifying exams by August 2012
  • Can attend all required 2012 summer training sessions and New TA Conference on the following dates:
    • Monday, August 27, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
    • Wednesday, August 29, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
    • 2012 New TA Conference: Thursday, September 20, 8:00 am-5:30 pm

Application Form & Deadline

2012-13 Graduate Teaching Fellow Online Application - Due Monday, April 16

Complete applications will include (see online form for more details):

  • A letter of interest
  • CV
  • A statement of teaching philosophy
  • Evidence of teaching
  • A note of support from your advisor (need not be a letter of recommendation)

Questions?

Contact Joseph Lampert, Associate Director at the Searle Center at 847-467-2274.



2011-12 Graduate Teaching Fellows

  • Winter (Jade) Werner, English
  • Daniel Visscher, Mathematics
  • Xaver Neumeyer, Mechanical Engineering 
  • Elizabeth Lenaghan, Media, Techonology & Society
  • Beth Corzo-Duchardt, Screen Cultures
  • Connor Doak, Slavics
  • Tatiana Filimonova, Slavics
  • Kati Sweaney, Theater & Drama

Past Graduate Teaching Fellows

2010-11:

  • Taylor Page, Chemistry
  • Winter (Jade) Werner, English
  • Andrew Warne, History
  • Xaver Neumeyer, Mechanically Engineering 
  • Jennifer Myers, Musicology
  • Erica Slotter, Psychology
  • Jason Roberts, Radio/TV/Film
  • Tatiana Filimonova, Slavics