One of the best resources for graduate students learning to teach is listening to faculty members reflect on teaching. Berkeley boasts a world-class research faculty who are also highly skilled and exemplary teachers.

The talks linked below are drawn from teaching conferences for GSIs as well as seminars and workshops sponsored by the GSI Center. Many of the speakers are also recipients of Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs.

Speaker Name	Title of Talk (videos open in new window)
Ani Adhikari Department of Statistics	Teach the Students You Have
Silvia A. Bunge Department of Psychology	The Science of Learning: An Overview for GSIs
Dan Garcia Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering	Tips for Becoming a Great GSI
Glynda Hull Graduate School of Education	Synchronous Instruction, Student Engagement, and Community Building
Terry Johnson Department of Bioengineering	What I Think About when I Think about Teaching
Rosemary Joyce Department of Anthropology	Learning as Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Daniela Kaufer Department of Integrative Biology	What can Neuroscience Research Teach Us about Teaching?
John Kihlstrom Department of Psychology	How Students Learn: A Perspective from Cognitive and Social Psychology
Yuri Kolomensky Department of Physics	Keynote for International GSIs
Jean Lave Department of Geography	Learning as a Socially Situated Activity
Lawrence Lowery School of Education	Effective Teaching for Effective Learning
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Department of Psychology	Growing Our Students' Intelligence
Kathleen Metz School of Education	The Interplay of Conceptual Understanding and Engagement in Disciplinary Practices
Raka Ray Departments of Sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies	The World of Teaching at Berkeley
Robert Reich School of Public Policy	The Art of Teaching and the Practice of Leadership
Anant Sahai Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Thriving as a GSI
Alan Schoenfeld School of Education	Learning to Think Mathematically (or like a scientist, or like a writer, or ...)
Arthur Shimamura Department of Psychology	Active Learning AND Testing: The Key to Long-Lasting Memories