Teaching and Mentoring Opportunities
Teaching Resources and Opportunities
Opportunities to Teach
Formal educational settings
- BIOG 1250 – Biology Seminar – Propose 7-week 1-credit courses to help students explore a topic while learning to think like a scientist
- Cornell Prison Education Program – Graduate Students can TA or apply to be Instructors. There are stipends to support a limited number of doctoral students each term. Postdocs and faculty and encouraged to volunteer their time.
- Knight Institute First-Year Writing Seminars – Many of these courses are instructed by graduate students or postdoctoral scholars.
- Cornell School of Continuing Education – Many faculty or postdocs choose to teach a summer (or winter course). Course proposals are solicited via academic deans and departments in fall for the following summer. In certain cases, teaching assistant roles or graduate instructors might be possible.
Informal educational settings, tutoring, and K-12 outreach
- Center for Teaching Innovation Graduate Teaching Fellows Program
- English Language Support Office – Become an ELSO Tutor or facilitate speaking groups
- Learning Strategies Center Tutoring
- GRASSHOPR – Graduate Student (K-12) School Outreach Program
- Expanding Your Horizons at Cornell
- Splash at Cornell
- Cornell Entomology Naturalist Outreach Program and Insectapalooza
Resources on Teaching
Future Faculty and Academic Careers and CIRTL Network Programs
- CIRTL Network online workshops and events
- CIRTL MOOCs on Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Online CIRTL Courses
- CIRTL Certificate Levels
- ALS 6014: Theater Techniques for Enhancing Teaching and Public Speaking
Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) Programs
- Teaching Assistant Online Orientation
- University-Wide Teaching Conference and Teaching Institutes
- GET SET Workshops
- ALS 6015: Teaching in Higher Education
- Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom online course
- International Teaching Assistant Program
Other Useful Resources
Mentoring Resources and Opportunities
Opportunities to Mentor
- Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates program – from the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) and the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE)
- Multicultural Academic Council (MAC) Mentoring Program – supported through the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE)
- The Learning Web is based on the community-based, mentor-apprentice/ hands-on learning experience — a model that connects young people with adults, sparks a passion, helps youth learn life skills and envision a rich future; all helping youth evolve into engaged citizens who value themselves and their community.
Cornell Mentoring Resources
- Building Mentorship Skills for Academic Careers Workshop Series – from Future Faculty and Academic Careers
- Mentoring at Cornell community of practice – from the Student Leadership Educators Network (SLEN)
- Cornell Undergraduate Research Board
- Library Guide on Career Mentors – from Careers Beyond Academia
External Mentoring Resources
- Research Mentor Training Resources – UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
- National Research Mentoring Network – Biomedically focused training programs and opportunities to mentor or be mentored
- Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)
- Mentoring Science Trainees – iBiology videos