Graduate Student Association (TLTE-GSA)

The Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education Graduate Student Association (TLTE-GSA) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln exists to serve and represent graduate students within this department of the College of Education and Human Sciences. In cooperation with departmental faculty and administration, TLTE-GSA promotes the intellectual community of graduate education; sponsors opportunities for professional development; creates opportunities for social interaction among graduate students; and advocates for issues relevant to graduate students and graduate education.

2022-23 Officers:

Helpful UNL Library tools 

TLTE's Graduate Student Association was pleased to welcome Dr. Dawes from UNL libraries on October 15, 2021, for an interactive workshop to learn about the amazing library resources.  We would like to share with you some of highlights from the session.

Writing Workshop I: Why Aren't you Writing? 

TLTE's Graduate Student Association was pleased to welcome Dr. Sharon Zumbrunn on January 19, 2021 for a discussion of the challenges we face in academic writing, ways we can understand those challenges, and strategies we can use to overcome them. A graduate of the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in educational psychology at UNL, Dr. Zumbrunn is an Associate Professor in the school of education at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Why Aren't You Writing?: Research, Real Talk, Strategies, and Shenanigans. In addition to her focus on the psychology behind the writing process, Dr. Zumbrunn's work at VCU involves the ways in which the values and practices of educators, elementary through college, impact their students' engagement, motivation, and achievement.

During the remote session, Dr. Zumbrunn spoke about writing strategies and to be forgiving of yourself in your writing process. Finding the motivation to write is complex. We need to remember that even when writing a draft, we are still writing – and that can be considered progress. Dr. Zumbrunn reminded us that sometimes we feel stuck because – we have too much information or we don’t know if we have enough. We question whether we are knowledgeable enough in a particular topic and begin to lose confidence.  But alas, she suggests that progress does not always equal unattainable productivity, and establishing personal rewards for your work is essential. Dr. Zumbrunn encourages developing a writing habit that includes rituals as part of your personal system. Make writing less of an event by developing positive associations to move your work forward. Dictate to your phone, consider research time, scholarship time, or 30-minute productive sessions a success. Watch the Video  to learn more about how Dr. Zumbrunn guides us to “take the power out of the end product” and enjoy the process! 

Writing Workshop II 

TLTE-GSA organized an event to talk about everything graduate students need to know for publishing their first journal article. Guest Facilitators were Taylor Hamblin and Heidi Jo Bartlett from the Nebraska Educator Journal. Watch the video here.

Past Activities