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When Drafting Your Questions
Consider a specific teaching context you are familiar with from your discipline: e.g. a course you have taught or TAed before.
Here is a useful activity you can use to begin drafting questions for student feedba…
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ResourcesAs a teaching assistant, you’ll soon become familiar with hearing certain complaints from students. Here are some of the most common student complaints and some suggested responses.
Common Complaints
“I met all the criteria in the assignmen…
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ResourcesAssessment writing can be a very difficult thing. Many times we have certain expectations and presumptions about our assessments. Moreover, there seems to be a multitude of ways to create and administer an assessment. This resource is aimed…
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ResourcesTeaching tips courtesy of the TATP staff
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ResourcesOverview of Active Learning
What is Active Learning?
Active learning comprises a wide range of activities that are defined as “any instructional method that engages students in the learning process. In short, active learning requires studen…
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ResourcesAs TAs, the task of preparing students to write examinations often falls on our shoulders. Preparing a successful exam review takes time and preparation on your part. You should view exam preparation as a process with several steps. Below a…
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ResourcesThe University of Toronto library system offer resources and services to support TAs and CIs in delivering courses, and to help enhance students’ learning experience.
Where to Start?
Supporting students
A good place to start as a new TA or …
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ResourcesPurpose
Low stakes writing exercises can be used to get the class thinking, to open the class, as here, and to make connections between previous learning and the new day’s activity. Low-stakes writing exercises are not graded – rather, they…
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ResourcesA major component of the iterative writing process is giving and receiving feedback. Unfortunately, this can be one of the most challenging aspects of teaching for educators. How can instructors or teaching assistants, with limited amounts …
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ResourcesWhy Ask Questions?
Asking and answering questions is a key ingredient in the learning process and in effective teaching. Using a variety of questions in the classroom can serve many different purposes — they can be used to:
diagnose studen…
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ResourcesConsultative feedback is based on “i” statements. This feedback should be…
Objective
“I was able to follow your explanation even though I don’t know calculus.”
Realistic and concrete
“I liked it when you showed us how to use the instruments…
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