Hello! My name is Mia Naccarato, and I am a third-year student pursuing a major in English Writing, a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and a certificate in Children’s Literature. I am very excited to be a part of the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship this semester! A little bit about me: I love…
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CUTF: Introduction to Pitt to the Point
Hello! My name is Michelle Lichtstein! I am a first semester senior in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences studying history and film & media studies, with a minor in museum studies and a certificate in broadcast and television arts. I am from Livingston, New Jersey which is about thirty minutes from New York…
Salvete, Omnes!
Hello, everyone! My name is Alex-Jaden, and I am a fourth-year student in my last semester. I am a B.Phil. Candidate in Classics, one who is also pursuing a B.A. in English Writing and International Studies, minors in Ancient Greek and German, and a certificate in Transatlantic Studies. At the twilight of my undergraduate career,…
First Steps Into Research
I first became interested in research as a high school student. A couple of my friends had worked with professors from local universities and the work that they were doing was really interesting to me. I reached out to a couple of people nearby while in high school and spent a summer learning about what…
CUTF Reflections
This semester has been a wonderful lesson in developing asynchronous content for my students. My previous experiences as a UTA for various subjects centered entirely around in-person instruction, helping people in class or in office hours. This time, my project forced me to think about how to teach concepts through the page. I have always…
Final Bows as a TA
As I gear up for my finals, I realize I’m studying differently. There’s a certain ease to understanding the structure of my classes that I honestly had never felt before I was a teaching assistant and had to construct my own class this semester. My understanding of teaching went through an evolution over the semester….
Lighting the Way for Future Semesters: End of CUTF
The CUTF semester is coming to a close! This semester has taught me so much, especially about how hard our teachers work to help further our learning. I have spent countless hours designing my model, let alone printing and gluing together all 40 sets of the model, on top of writing the in-class activity that…
The Final Stretch of My CUTF Experience
After an eventful fall semester, my CUTF experience is coming to a culmination. Hi, my name is Nehal Chakraborty and I am a senior neuroscience major. Over the past semester, I worked with Dr. Linda O’Reilly as an undergraduate teaching assistant for her Foundations of Biology 1 class. As a UTA, I helped students through…
Learning through Teaching
It is already halfway through the semester! I have greatly enjoyed my experiences this semester as an undergraduate teaching assistant for organic chemistry. I have learned so much that can help me become a better instructor and facilitator in the future. I have been an organic chemistry teaching assistant for the past six semesters. After…
The “Big Ideas” of Teaching
Teaching CMPINF 0010: Big Ideas in Computing and Information this Fall is both similar and different to last Spring. The largest deviation from last semester is the change in student population: most students taking the course in the Fall are freshmen, while those in the Spring tend to be upperclassmen. Although this has positively affected…