Lunch
12:30-1:00
Pick up in the Sewell Social Sciences Building lobby and bring to afternoon classroom.
Small Group Workshops
1:00-4:00
Learning activities with an L&S Teaching Mentor in assigned classroom. Will include a short break with snack.
Teaching Mentors
Abby Letak is a dissertator in the Sociology Department and an award-winning educator. Her research focuses on mental health and wellbeing, specifically looking at self-care, neoliberalism, and cultural productivity imperatives. She has taught as both a TA and instructor of record for multiple courses during her time at UW-Madison, including “The Sociology of Mental Health,” which she designed from scratch. She is currently an instructor in the Writing Center, working one-on-one with students, leading workshops, and facilitating a graduate student writing group. In her free time, she enjoys co-directing a local dance company, spending time with her orange tabby cat, watching television, and crafting.
Danielle Nelson is a PhD Candidate in English.
Steven Moen is a third-year Statistics Ph.D. student with research interests in time-dependent data with applications to finance and macroeconomics. He’s worked in various industry roles in risk management, and he currently works as a statistical consultant for researchers in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Before coming to UW-Madison, he earned a master’s degree in Statistics and a bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Economics, and he is a CFA Charterholder. In his spare time, he enjoys weightlifting and playing piano.
Patty Lan is a dissertator in the socio-cultural anthropology department. She has been a teaching assistant and head teaching assistant for Anthropology 104, one of the campus’s largest lecture-style ethnic studies requirement courses. She also independently lectured for Anthropology 300, the theory and methods requirement course for anthropology majors. She is experienced with designing lesson plans for discussion-based sections and navigating politically complex learning material on race, class and gender. Her own research is on international development, education, and South Korea.
International TA Q&A (optional)
4:15-5:00pm
Sewell Social Sciences 6104.
International TAs discuss their experiences, share insight, and respond to audience questions. Panelists are former L&S Teaching Mentors.
Panelists
Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki received her BA in Latin in 2018 and her MA in Letters in 2019, both from the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil). She is now a fourth year Ph.D. student in Classics in the Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Department (UW-Madison). She has taught different levels of Latin, such as Latin 103, 104, and 391, and was a TA in writing intensive classes, such as Classics 320: The Greeks, and in literature classes, such as ILS 203: Western Culture. She was also the instructor for the 2022 summer course Classics 322: The Romans. Her research focuses on bucolic poetry and its reception in Antiquity, but she is broadly interested in environmental studies and less privileged social groups in ancient literature and visual arts.
Shu Tian Eu is a Ph.D. student in Physics researching in the Wisconsin high energy phenomenology program.
Xinzhi Zhao is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at UW-Madison. Before joining UW, she studied at Peking University in China and has been an exchange student in Japan and South Korea. In Madison, Xinzhi studies political theory, a field that is usually described as “humanistic social science,” and is working on a dissertation that critically examines the notion of “impartiality” in 18th–century European accounts of social scientific inquiry. She started teaching at UW in 2018, received the “Inaugural Teaching Assistant Award” from her department in 2020, and was selected by the College of Letters and Science as a Teaching Mentor in 2022. She believes international TAs are the treasure of UW and is passionate for helping new TAs navigate the challenges of teaching.