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CERGE-EI Holds Teaching Fellows Program Training Course

9 September, 2015

Last month, the CERGE-EI Academic Skills Center (ASC) ran its annual training session on teaching principles and practices for economics courses for the new cohort of fellows funded by the CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows Program. This year there were two groups meeting in overlapping sessions – awardees of both the Graduate Teaching Fellows (GTF) program and the Career Integration Fellowship (CIF) programs attended sessions.

For the GTF program, 29 Masters students from ISET in Tbilisi, Georgia joined 5 PhD candidates from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and 17 from CERGE-EI PhD to examine best practices for planning and delivering effective lessons to undergraduate economics students. The CIF portion of the training course brought together twenty-one awardees from the current cohort of fellows.

The CERGE-EI Teaching Fellows program was launched in 2007 to increase the quality of undergraduate teaching in economics universities throughout the CEE and CIS regions. Since then, Teaching Fellows have taught over 1100 courses to 57,000 students at 90 regional universities in 22 countries.