New Graduate Teaching Assistant Institute

Date/Time:

August 18, 2025 - 8:00 AM to 4:45 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
8:00 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
9:15 – 10:15 am	Five Areas of Undergraduate Student Success (UG Success)
10:15 – 10:30 am	BREAK/TRANSITION
10:30 – 11:45 am	Successful Communication and Healthy Boundaries Sara Morales and Dr. Sam Drake
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, FERPA ⮚ RCPD and Reasonable Accommodation ⮚ Relationship Violence & Sexual Misconduct ⮚ Web Accessibility
2:20 – 2:30 pm	BREAK/TRANSITION
2:30 – 3:30 pm	Creating Authentic Learning Environments Presenter: Danielle Cadet)
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 (GTAs from various departments)
4:30 – 4:45 pm	Wrap up of the Day (announcements, questions)