Resources for teaching and learning on MIT's campus
From the Teaching + Learning Lab (TLL)
Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program
An interactive workshop series intended for graduate students and postdocs interested in academic careers or developing skills to support their teaching at MIT.
TA Days
A series of workshops that addresses many of the common roles, responsibilities, and concerns of MIT teaching assistants.
Microteaching Cohorts
An opportunity to practice your teaching skills and receive feedback. It is a great way to prepare for teaching a new class or guest lecture, practice for recitation, or to prepare a teaching demo for an on-campus interview.
Teaching Consultations & Observations
If you are an MIT graduate student, postdoc, instructor or faculty member, you can schedule one-on-one teaching consultations and/or observations with one of TLL’s professional teaching consultants.
From other MIT departments
Teaching Systems Lab Playtesting and MOOCs
Drennan Research & Education Laboratory
Has a list of training videos addressing stereotype threat in the classroom as well as digital chemistry teaching tools.
Opportunities to Teach or Mentor
SPARK, ESP
Imagine an awesome weekend where over 1,000 7th and 8th graders come to MIT's campus to take all sorts of classes, taught by small groups of people like you! At Spark, you can teach absolutely anything you want to an audience of eager and excited young minds. Join us for this annual teaching extravaganza!
SPLASH, ESP
Since its founding in 1988, Splash has become MIT's largest annual teaching and learning extravaganza. For one awesome weekend every November, thousands of high schoolers will flood campus to take classes taught by small groups of people like you.
Cascade, ESP
Cascade is aimed at local Boston and Cambridge ninth and tenth-grade students. We recruit students from greater Boston-area schools and community centers, many of whom lack access to certain educational opportunities.
HSSP, ESP
HSSP is a multi-weekend program where hundreds of middle/high schoolers come to take classes, both academic and non-academic, taught by people like you.
STEAM
STEAM Saturday is an exciting opportunity for our students in grades K to 8 to explore, discover, and learn outside the traditional classroom and be inspired to uncover their passion, gain motivation, and become lifelong learners.
MISTI GTL
Through MISTI GTL, MIT students are matched with foreign high school hosts for three weeks in January. Selected participants are trained about teaching materials, platforms and communication techniques, and introduced to the education system and culture of their host country.
TSR^2
Talented Scholars Resource Room (TSR^2) provides academic support and resources to MIT undergraduate students in a variety of subjects, with a focus on first year General Institute Requirements.
Seminar XL/LE
An academic enrichment seminar primarily for freshmen, Seminar XL enables participants to develop mastery of both core subject matter, Calculus, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, as well as intellectual skills for future success in advanced coursework.
MITES
Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six-week residential academic enrichment program for rising high school seniors – many of whom come from underrepresented or under served communities – who have a strong academic record and are interested in studying and exploring careers in science and engineering.
MOSTEC
The six-month MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community (MOSTEC) program serves rising high school seniors from across the country – many of whom come from underrepresented or underserved communities.
SEED
Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery (SEED) Academy is a five and a half year academic enrichment and career exploration program for public school students from Boston, Cambridge and Lawrence, Massachusetts who have a strong academic record and interest in science and engineering.