The GSD Program is an initiative of the Office of the Provost, the Graduate School, and the Faculty Innovation Center (FIC). We support graduate students in preparing for intellectual leadership in future careers, in designing engaging learning experiences for their students, and in advancing an energetic culture of teaching and learning at UT. GSD provides opportunities to advance graduate students’ pedagogical, academic, and professional progress, including support for crafting a teaching statement; drafting a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement; and creating a teaching portfolio.
Graduate Student Development Programs and Services
Program Highlights

Graduate Student Blog Spotlight
In spring semester, graduate students, along with all instructors at UT, were tasked with quickly adapting their in-person classes to be offered fully online. In our Graduate Student Blog Spotlight, Kaitlyn Farrell Rodriguez, English PhD Candidate and FIC Graduate Teaching Consultant, shares her reflections and lessons learned in her post, "Online Classes: Students Make all the Difference."

Graduate Student Teaching Needs
The Graduate Student Development (GSD) team administered a survey to all graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin in spring 2016. This report describes their experiences and perceptions of preparation for teaching.

Graduate Student Teaching Showcase
Check out our spring 2020 Graduate Teaching Showcase, where we partnered with UT Libraries to highlight the work of seven graduate students from a variety of disciplines who each told us a story about their teaching.

TA Instructional Development in Engineering
We collaborated with University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching to compare the effectiveness of a variety of graduate-student development programs for engineering students:
Fong, C. J., Gilmore, J. A., Pinder-Grover, T., & Hatcher, M. (2017). Teaching assistant instructional development in engineering: A test of four programs. Journal of Further and Higher Education.

COLA's GRS 097 Teaching Fundamentals Course
The College of Liberal Arts featured GSD’s Teaching Fundamentals course for graduate teaching assistants, GRS 097, in its magazine Life and Letters.