New Graduate Teaching Assistant Institute

Date/Time:

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

Audience:

All new graduate teaching assistants (international and domestic)

Registration:

https://grad.msu.edu/tapreg

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

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)