New Graduate Teaching Assistant Institute

Date/Time:

August 16, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM E.T.

All new graduate teaching assistants (international and domestic)

Virtual, via Zoom

D2L Modules and in-person sessions.

New Graduate Teaching assistants will engage with information necessary to successfully start teaching undergraduate students.

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.

Time (All ET)	Session
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 Integrity of Scholarship & Grades (Dr. Shannon Burton) ⮚ 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)