April 2008 > Students

Sereeta Alexander, left, was honored for teaching effectiveness, while Jessica Parker, David Malinowski and Gabriela Segade, above, were among the School of Education contingent at the GSI awards ceremony.

Alexander, Seven Other Students Earn GSI Awards

Sereeta Alexander, a fourth-year Human Development and Education student, was honored with this year's Teaching Effectiveness Award sponsored by the Graduate Divisions's GSI Teaching and Resource Center and the Graduate Council's Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs.

The Teaching Effectiveness Award recognizes outstanding GSIs who have identified a specific problem in teaching and have designed, implemented and assessed a project that addresses this particular teaching problem. The title of Alexander's project was entitled "Creating Collaborative In-class Activities: Minimizing Diffusion of Responsibility and Disinterest during Group Work." This year sixteen GSIs from across the campus received the award. Outstanding GSI Award recipients from the current and previous year are invited to submit essays for this competition. Alexander was an outstanding GSI Award recipient in the 2006-07 academic year.

Seven other School of Education Ph.D. candidates earned outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) awards for 2007–08. The students and their areas are:

James Andretta, Cognition and Development;

Chela Delgado, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture;

Nora Kenney, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture;

David Malinowski, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture (awarded in
College of Letters & Science);

Jessica Parker, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture;

Gabriela Segade, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture;

Leah Walker, Policy, Organization. Measurement and Evaluation.

The awardees were invited to attend the campus-wide Outstanding GSI Award Ceremony on May 7. In addition, all recipients of the award are eligible to apply for the Teaching Effectiveness Award.

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