Date/Time:
August 16, 2024 - 8:00 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 |
|---|---|
|
8:00 am |
Zoom Room opens |
|
8:30 – 8:55 am |
Online Check-In and Pre-Program Activities |
|
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 Student Success Goals in Mind (Neighborhood Directors) |
|
10:15 – 10:30 am |
BREAK/TRANSITION |
|
10:30 – 11:45 am |
Successful Communication and Healthy Boundaries |
|
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 (Dr. Tonya Fountain and Jodie Goodman) ⮚ Web Accessibility (Kevin Henley) |
|
2:20 – 2:30 pm |
BREAK/TRANSITION |
|
2:30 – 3:30 pm |
Equity-Centered and Trauma-Informed Education |
|
3:30 – 3:40 pm |
STRETCH and HYDRATION BREAK |
|
3:40 – 4:30 pm |
GTA Roles: What to expect as a Grader, Recitation Leader, Lab Leader, Section Leader/Instructor of Record |
|
4:30 – 4:45 pm |
Wrap up of the Day (announcements, questions) |
This agenda was developed by Dr. Stefanie Baier with assistance from the GREAT Advisory Group including (in alphabetical order): Sewwandi Abeywardana, Gloria Ashaolu, Chase Bruggeman, Samara Chamoun, Arya Gupta, Seth Hunt, Saviour Kitcher, Tianyi Kou-Herrema, Hima Rawal.
