Tips for TA’s

June 5, 2008

All you have to do is ask a second-year Teaching Assistant or Graduate Assistant who has taught, and they could provide plenty to say about how daunting teaching can be. There are issues of how to teach, what to teach, what to assign, how to write a good syllabus, etc. The list could go on. 

We are trying to relieve some of the anxiety that many TA’s may have with our resources for tips. They can all be useful for incoming and returning TA’s.

Below are some online resources, which could be extremely helpful for any new TA.

The Center for Instructional Innovation and Teaching Learning Academy at Western Washington University  have posted web pages which help writing a syllabus:
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/workshop_handouts/syllabus_3-2-06/

The Teaching Center at Washington University in St. Louis provides tips for faculty teaching for the first time:

http://teachingcenter.wustl.edu/tips-faculty-teaching-first-time

The Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have a list of practical tips that any TA could use:

http://www.cte.uiuc.edu/did/resources/TA/preparesemester.htm


What are some of your suggestions? Have any of these resources worked for you?… Click on the COMMENTS link below to get started!


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