Teaching Assistants' Training Program Workshops

Please note that these sessions can be counted towards Job training, but not towards any TATP Certificates.  Nevertheless, anyone is welcome to participate in the event.   This is a 2-hour webinar for first-appointment TAs. This session will cover strategies for teaching. All departments may allow TAs to use this 2-hour session as part of their 4 […]

Is it a presentation or is it a lesson? Focusing on backwards design and strategic use of active learning, participants will discuss strategies for transforming unidirectional presentations into meaningful and interactive learning experiences. We will further explore how to adapt these strategies for different audiences – be they undergraduates, our academic colleagues, or non-specialists.  

Effective communities are both aspirational and practical. In particular, learning communities provide a space and a structure for people to align around a shared goal. They connect people who are eager to learn and work across boundaries, all the while holding them accountable to a common agenda, metrics, and outcomes. Learning communities enable its members […]

This session introduces TAs and graduate student course instructors to career learning as a reflective and integrative dimension of teaching. As many students face anxiety about their futures—including financial pressures and uncertainty around career paths—career learning offers a way to support them by connecting academic content to personal meaning, values, lived experiences, and long-term goals. […]