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intentionally take on projects your only partially qualified for.

Finding your teaching groove after a long stint away from the classroom.

grading final papers

check in with your students; extend availabilities to meet; offer feedback, and follow up

Thoughts on bringing current events into your classroom.

creating a “humanities lab”,

assignment sheets

female graduate students

But these tools require we think about their purpose, method, and audience just as carefully as when we design an essay prompt, a problem set, or any other assessment exercise.

Our discussion made the classroom feel like it was not the professor’s class to run alone, but ours as well.

student writing

Inevitably, what I find reaffirms aspects of writing pedagogy I’m familiar with while giving me fresh ways to express it to the new audiences with whom I’m working.

plagiarism

On bringing lessons from dissertation writing into your classroom.

failing to recognize that my own identity was blinding me to opportunities that would allow my students’ identities to take center stage

For graduate teaching assistants, this is the time when we introduce ourselves, lay out our expectations, and, hopefully, establish the tone and level of authority that we want to convey throughout the term.

More forcefully than in any other single class, I realized the importance of universal design for learning (UDL). This curricular design features privilege multiple access points for learning, engagement, and assessment. As Dr. Jennifer Stone puts it, “designing on the front end” with UDL minimizes the need for individual learners to make a special request.

semester-long, graded course on pedagogy through my university’s Learning Assistant Program.

Regardless of your discipline, there’s a good chance that at some point you will be responsible for teaching or grading writing in some shape or form.

how to maximize that stack of evaluations.

The Next Target

But this one didn’t just argue that how I dress influences student perceptions, it argued that it directly affects my ratings, and more importantly, my students’ behavior in class and the quality of their learning.

A Scholarly Approach to Your Career

graduate teaching assistant

Graduate teaching assistant salaries also are reported in the aggregate. Across institution types, they made $11,205 this year, on average. Those at doctoral institutions made more, at $14,345 (the salaries were roughly the same at both public and private universities). Graduate teaching assistants at master’s-level institutions made about $9,000 and those at baccalaureate institutions made about $7,042.

Graduate teaching assistants have voted to unionize, in locals affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, at Central Michigan University a

"We interpret this result as evidence of 'teaching to the exam,'" the authors write, "where TAs divulge information that is pertinent to the class’ exams if given the opportunity. Students who are more likely to interact with the TAs by attending the TAs’ discussion sections and office hours are the beneficiaries of teaching to the test."

graduate teaching assistants making up almost another 13 percent

In 2000, when the NLRB ruled that graduate teaching assistants are eligible for collective bargaining and can be considered employees, New York University became the first private university to recognize a graduate student union.

one of the most pervasive topics of concern and frustration that I address in my workshops with faculty members and graduate teaching assistants is classroom incivility

Graduate student workers' newly won right to unionize at private universities is a ding on those institutions' credit, Moody's Investors Service said Thursday.

Timeline on Graduate Student Unions at Private Universities

graduate teaching assistants

graduate teaching assistants

graduate teaching assistants

Graduate teaching assistants also have particular needs.

As a teacher, I kept it quiet