Teaching Communities & Fellowships

Graduate Teaching Assistant & Postdoc Teaching Learning Community (GTA/P TLC)

This learning community engages educators with evidence-based practices and pedagogy to help them teach in accessible and inclusive ways. 

Educators, including Graduate Teaching Assistants, Faculty and Staff share pedagogy, best practices, and holistic educator and student success strategies. This group strives to practice a culture of care and to build community and meets twice a month throughout the year.

GTAs and any teaching enthusiast can volunteer to present on topics and practices that are relevant to teaching undergraduate and graduate students and on identified needs in this space. 

Sample topics are Communicating about difficult topics, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Using High Impact Practices, Rethinking the Syllabus, Engaging Students using Zoom, Recognizing Mental Health challenges using Kognito, Metacognitive Strategies.

IN!SPIRES Wellbeing Ambassadors

This group supports and advocates for graduate students and postdocs in their holistic wellbeing. Connect with us if you have challenges transitioning to MSU from a different background (coming from a different country, being a first-generation graduate student or postdoc, have challenges navigating wellbeing resources on campus, or trying to make friends).

Cohort Fellowship Programs

The Graduate School collaborates with academic units to offer several year-long fellowship programs for people interested in participating in communities of practice with other graduate students. 

While in each of these fellowship programs, graduate students undertake year-long inquiry projects related to student learning in their disciplinary contexts.