
Graduate Student Assistant Program
Center for Innovative Teaching and LearningInstitute for Liberal Arts

Graduate Student Assistant Program
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning
Institute for Liberal Arts



Seeking team members to
join the “learning community”
and support learning!
GSA program offers development through activities that support learning and working with people

Seeking team members to
join the “learning community”
and support learning!
GSA Overview
Welcome to the Graduate Student Assistant program
Graduate Student Assistants form core of learning community
Tokyo Tech has built a communal development environment for undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff, who, with deference toward each other, take the initiative in academic study by learning, instructing, and deliberating together. This is the “learning community.” Graduate Student Assistants (GSAs) form the core of this “learning community.”
The GSA program provides a forum for graduate students to acquire leadership that can elicit the strengths of their counterparts and unleash the power of a team and enhance their overall skills as a person.
More about GSA program
Program Information
Three certifications
In a collaborative arrangement with faculty, GSAs participate in educational activities of the undergraduate degree program and develop and operate online learning content. According to their roles, there are three certifications: GSA Facilitator (GSA-F), GSA Reviewer (GSA-R), and GSA Developer (GSA-D). The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) confers a certificate upon completion of the GSA program.

GSA Facilitator
GSA-F
Participation in the classroom as facilitator to support self-directed learning of studentsGSA Facilitator
Registrants of Advanced Leadership Workshop actively participate in classroom instruction of Tokyo Tech Visionary Project under the guidance of faculty. Through the support of self-directed learning to undergraduate students, practical experience in supportive leadership is gained. Satisfying the prescribed requirements leads to certification as GSA Facilitator.

GSA Reviewer
GSA-R
Participation in the classroom as peer reviewer to support academic writing of studentsGSA Reviewer
Registrants of Peer Review Practicum actively participate in Liberal Arts Final Report as a reviewer. Through activities that support the writing of the Final Report by undergraduate students, tutoring experience is gained. Satisfying the prescribed requirements leads to certification as GSA Reviewer.

GSA Developer
GSA-D
Production of educational materials used for online coursework in collaboration with faculty, staff and other studentsGSA Developer
As a TA at the Online Education Development Office, the registrant engages in the development of online educational materials (designing educational materials, producing videos) through MOOC* development and operations. Satisfying the prescribed requirements leads to certification as GSA Developer.
*MOOC: Massive Open Online Course
Voices of Participants
Messages from students, faculty and staff

Yuri Suzuki
Graduate Major in Social and Human Sciences
Dept. of Social and Human Sciences. School of Environment and Society
★NEW★Re-recognize the meaning of learning and researching
★NEW★Re-recognize the meaning of learning and researching
In Advanced Leadership Workshop, I was able to take charge of undergraduate classes,
which gave me the opportunity to think again about the meaning of learning and researching.
Also after being certified as GSA-F, I participated in classes as a TA and was able to practice
the facilitation of eliciting opinions and encouraging active discussion.
- Completed Peer Review Practicum in 2019, GSA-R
- Completed Advanced Leadership Workshop in 2020, GSA-F



Yusuke Fujiki
Graduate major in Chemistry
Dept.of Chemistry, School of Science
★NEW★What future leaders need
★NEW★What future leaders need
I have taken the three Core Liberal Arts Education courses and now I am learning what it means to be a leader in a practical manner by working as GSA TA. Through dialogue with other students, I was able to encounter the various ways of thinking of different people with different backgrounds, and to understand what kind thinking and behavior is necessary for the future leaders.
I want to continue learning about these subjects as it will be beneficial when I enter the work life.
- Completed Peer Review Practicum in 2019, GSA-R
- Completed Advanced Leadership Workshop in 2020, GSA-F



Daisuke Kimura
Graduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology
★NEW★Participating in GSA program
★NEW★Participating in GSA program
【Taking the Peer Review Practicum】
Together with the undergraduate students I was able to learn what kind of writings are easier to be understood.
I feel that through the practice of peer review I have acquired the ability to organize assertions and to take an overall view on the text. In my research life, there are many occasions when I need to write texts, and I think these abilities will be useful to everyone.
【Taking the Advanced Leadership Workshop】
The theme in the facilitation learning was to encourage dialogue.
To practice that I went all the way back to think what is dialogue and could gain personal insight awareness.
Also, by participating as a facilitator in small group classes of the Tokyo Tech Visionary Project, I learned what works well and what does not, and it was a very valuable experience.
- Completed Peer Review Practicum in 2019, GSA-R
- Completed Advanced Leadership Workshop in 2020, GSA-F
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
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