Registration for the GTA Fall Orientation and Preparation Program is open! Whether you are a new, international, or a returning Graduate Teaching Assistant, the Graduate Teaching Assistant Program (GTAP) offers sessions that provide policy training required of everyone and sessions to make you more effective in your teaching, including resources and professional development opportunities. The program will be delivered virtually with both synchronous and asynchronous components.

All GTAs are strongly encouraged to attend and need to register before July 30, 2023, to receive all materials and to be able to access all relevant modules on the Learning Management System D2L. This link will give everyone a brief introduction to the GTA Program and to the individual components as described below and includes the registration links.  

• All new GTAs (domestic and international, starting in the Fall Semester 2023 or Spring Semester 2024) should attend the New GTA Institute on August 16, 2023, and are also encouraged to attend the Pedagogy Workshops on August 23, 2023.  

• All new International GTAs (starting in the Fall Semester 2023 or Spring Semester 2024) should also attend the International GTA Orientation on August 25, 2023, along with the other dates mentioned above.  

• All GTAs (new and returning) should consider attending the Pedagogy Workshops on August 23, 2023 which will include best practices in teaching, use of technology tools, and culturally relevant pedagogy among other topics, and some will count toward the Certification in College Teaching.

We encourage all GTAs to also complete this form to let us know what pedagogy workshops they are interested in for future planning: GTA Workshop Topics.

In addition, GTAs (new and returning) may join the GTA Virtual Lunch and Learn sessions which also run over the summer every other Wednesday from Noon to 1 p.m. Registration is available on the Graduate School Calendar. It will be specified if a session will be in person or in hybrid format.