Grad Instructor Mentoring Program

Purpose

The Mentoring Program was created to support the Statistics Graduate Students teaching their own classes. In this website you will find important information about preparing to teach your course, UF policies and best teaching practices. There is also a Graduate Instructor Mentor to help you navigate the semester and answer any questions you may have.

Access to these Pages

These pages should be viewable to anyone with the link. Graduate students in Statistics teaching their own courses will be added as students to this Canvas course by the Graduate Instructor Mentor.

For easy access from your Dashboard, do the following:

On the Canvas menu go to Courses - All Courses.
You can Filter by Term - look for Development Term.
Click on the star next to the New Stat Instructor course.
Go back to the Dashboard and verify it's there.

To navigate these pages, you can:

read through all of them sequentially using the Next button on the bottom of the pages.
go to the Home page to find specific topics.

Framework

As part of this Mentoring Program you will:

Meet with the Mentor before classes start to help you get started.
Get help from the Mentor to ensure your syllabus and your canvas course are ready before the semester starts.
Refer to these webpages as needed during the semester.
Have your class visited by the Mentor or another faculty member during the first few weeks of the semester.
Consult the Mentor during the semester as needed for general help with questions or problems that may arise.
Consult other instructors of your class, past or present, for specific help with your course. Consulting other graduate students who have taught the class is encouraged, but you should also consult faculty members who have taught it.