Meet CETL’s Graduate Teaching Fellows
At CETL, we love working with graduate students. We’re especially excited this year to be joined by two outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellows, Amitesh Singh and Winshen Liu.
Graduate Teaching Fellows collaborate with CETL staff on our offerings for graduate students and benefit from extensive mentorship in teaching and educational development. This year, our Graduate Teaching Fellows are not only serving as mentors within CETL’s graduate programs—they’re also diving into pedagogical research on topics like AI and active learning and organizing their own teaching development offerings for peers.
Amitesh Singh, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, joins the Graduate Teaching Fellows program after having worked with CETL in a similar capacity last year. He became interested in pedagogy after serving as a teaching assistant for an active-learning physics course. He’s excited to introduce other STEM TAs to more student-centered teaching approaches—especially given the recent opening of the Duff Center for Science and Technology Innovation, with its new Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms.
Amitesh will be joining Emily as the co-facilitator for this semester’s Graduate Reading Group, in which graduate TAs and instructors will tackle the book The New College Classroom by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis.
Winshen Liu comes to CETL from the Department of English, where she is an MFA candidate in poetry and a TA for literature survey courses. She will join Emily as the co-facilitator for the Fundamentals of Teaching Learning Community, a space in which she’s excited to connect with other graduate students and build community around teaching.
Winshen is also working within her own department to help TAs and instructors navigate generative AI in the classroom. She and her collaborators—including AIG’s Assistant Director of Academic Innovation Marc Watkins—will put together a series of hands-on sessions that allow English graduate students to explore the implications of AI writing generators for their teaching, assessment, and course design.
If you see Amitesh and Winshen at CETL events this fall, be sure to say hello, and keep an eye out for their contributions to our blog over the next few months. We look forward to seeing all the great ways they enhance graduate teaching at UM this year!