Date/Time:
August 16, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM E.T.
Audience:
All new graduate teaching assistants (international and domestic)
Registration:
Location:
Virtual, via Zoom
Format:
D2L Modules and in-person sessions.
Goal:
New Graduate Teaching assistants will engage with information necessary to successfully start teaching undergraduate students.
Learning Outcomes:
New GTAs will be able to:
- Identify ways of how to best address various learner differences including identities and experiences to help foster student success.
- Discuss strategies to successfully run their classrooms, their recitation sessions, their work as graders or homeroom tutors.
- Provide procedures to address policy related issues in their individual roles as GTAs.
- Find solutions to student scenarios they may encounter in their GTA role.
- Connect with graduate students to discuss engagement opportunities.
Agenda:
Time (All ET) |
Session |
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8:30 – 8:55 am |
Online Check-In |
9:00 – 9:15 am |
Welcome from the Graduate School Dean and The GTAP Program Director and Program Assistant |
9:15 – 10:15 am |
Undergraduate Student Success & Keeping Undergraduate Learning Goals in Mind (Neighborhood Student Success Collaborative) |
10:15 – 10:30 am |
BREAK/TRANSITION |
10:30 – 11:45 am |
Equitable Teaching Practices (Dr. Shahnaz Masani) |
11:45 – Noon |
GTA Contract (Graduate Employees Union) |
Noon – 12:55 pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
12:55 – 2:20 pm |
Policy Primer & Case Studies with Policy/Program Leaders Policies covered: ⮚ Code of Teaching Responsibility and ⮚ RCPD and Reasonable Accommodation (Shelby Gombosi) ⮚ Relationship Violence & Sexual Misconduct (Michael Allensworth) ⮚ Mental Health for Yourself/Your Students (Dr. Meg Moore) |
2:20 – 2:30 pm |
BREAK/TRANSITION |
2:30 – 3:30 pm |
Successful Communication and Healthy Boundaries Sara Morales and Dr. Sam Drake |
3:30 – 3:40 pm |
STRETCH and HYDRATION BREAK |
3:40 – 4:30 pm |
Multiple Roles of GTAs Breakout sessions |
4:30 – 4:45 pm |
Wrap up of the Day (announcements, questions) |