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Resources for Teaching Assistants
The Beginning
TA's Guide to Instruction at UC
Davis - 2007 (download pdf) |
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| Departmental TA Training Grants - direct funding to departments for support of TA-related programs. Deadline has passed. Next call will be issued in January 2006. For more information, contact the TRC trc@ucdavis.edu 752-6050. | |
| TA Tips - one-page handouts on the following topics (downoad pdf files - requires Acrobat Reader): | |
| Active
Learning Adding Flavor to Your Lectures Encouraging Participation Example of a Grading Rubric for a Term Paper in Any Discipline Grading Lab Reports, Problem Sets, and Exam Questions Grading Writing Assignments Learning Styles Making Your Labs Run Smoothly Teaching Philosophies: Key Concepts Tips for the International TA |
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| From Shields Library, UCD | |
| Student Writing: How the Library Can Help - printable web version or download pdf | |
| Problems Undergraduates Have with Their Assignments: A Librarian's List - printable web version or download pdf | |
| ... and What You Can Do About It: Librarians' Advice to Teaching Assistants - printable web version or download pdf | |
| Educational Technology Resources | |
| Tutorials and workshops for creating webpages (Dreamweaver, MyUCDavis), in-class presentations (PowerPoint), grade management (MyUCDavis gradebook), quizbuilder (MyUCDavis), use of electronic databases, and more | |
| Assistance with student writing | |
| Writing in the Disciplines - description and workshop offerings of the campus writing center | |
| Useful workshop handouts from the Campus Writing Center | |
| Readings of interest (Require Acrobat Reader -- free software) | |
Seldin, P. The Use and Abuse of Student Ratings of Professors. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol 39, pg 40. July 21, 1993. Davis, Will (1998). A Good First Impression. Davis, Will (1998). Some Tips for Those First Few Days. Adapted from Johnson, G. R. (1981). Those First Few Days:Some Tips About Teaching. Network Newsletter on College Teaching, The Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University. Svinicki, Marilla D. (1995) The Seven Deadly Comments that Get in the Way of Learning About Teaching In T. A. Heenan and K.F. Jerich (Ed.) Teaching Graduate Students to Teach: Engaging the Disciplines. Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on the Training and Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants. (pp. 13-17) Champaign, IL: Office of Conferences and Institutes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Fowler, B. (1996). Increasing the teaching skills of Teaching Assistants through feedback from observation of classroom performance. Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development, 3 (3), 95-103. |
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| Other Instructional Resources at UC Davis | |
Contact: trc@ucdavis.edu (530) 752-6050
Updated 10/17/07
