Teaching Effectiveness Award

The Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs honors a small number of GSIs who devise solutions to teaching or learning problems they have identified in their classes and write them up in a one-page essay. These essays are published on the GSI Center Website for future use and reference. The title of each winner’s essay is listed alongside their name.

2017

Nicholas Kern (Graduate) (Astronomy)

2013

Ryan Turner
Seeing for Yourself

2012

Francesca Fornasini
“Is This Right?” Building Confidence in Scientific Reasoning

2010

Aaron Lee
Bringing Astronomy Down to Earth: A Teaching Strategy That Helps Develop Intuition

2006

Daniel Alan Perley
Solar System on a Laptop: Visualizing the Dynamic Universe

Julia Marie Comerford
Teaching by Bad Example

2005

Kathryn Mary Peek
Lessons from a Lesson on Stellar Evolution

2004

Louis-Benoit Desroches
Undergraduate Astronomy Journal Club

2002

John Asher Johnson
TALC: Individualized Assistance through Collaborative Learning

2000

Steven Dawson
Kinesthesis in Science: Where Red Rover Meets Quantum Mechanics

Topics

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