For Graduate Students

Why Become a GIFT Teaching Fellow (TF)

• Co-teaching opportunity - Teaching Fellows (TF) will be given the opportunity to co-teach a Tufts course during the fall or spring semesters under the mentorship and supervision of a Tufts faculty member.
• Opportunity to interact with graduate students and post docs from other disciplines who share an interest and commitment to teaching.
• Prepare for future employment by increasing both teaching and communication skills through peer-reviewed practice in a supportive learning environment.
• Facilitation for developing a teaching statement.
• Transcript Notation - A transcript notation of a non-credit College of Special Studies course, "Graduate Institute for Teaching" (CSS 145), will be made for Institute Fellows.
• Tuition and Stipend - Tufts doctoral students will receive a tuition scholarship to enroll in the Institute. Arts, Sciences, and Engineering GIFT fellows will also be paid a taxable stipend for their teaching responsibilities. If the TF is unable to fulfill her/his teaching commitment in the fall or spring, she/he will be expected to forfeit the second portion of the stipend, unless other teaching arrangements are made.
• Facilitation for developing a teaching statement.

Expectations for Teaching Fellows

• Time commitment - TFs will be expected to commit themselves to and participate in all 15 GIFT workshop days during the summer.
• Meetings with faculty mentors. Once the summer workshops have been completed, the TFs will meet regularly with their faculty mentor to prepare for co-teaching the mentor's fall or spring course.
• Co-teaching - TFs will have shared responsibility, with their faculty mentor, for many aspects of the course.