TA Resources

• TA Application instructions
• Fall 2013 TA application - due April 1, 2013 (Word)

Teaching Resources

• TA Resource Book
• Center for Excellence in Teaching - TA Resource Page
• The Impact of Teaching Assistants on Student Retention in the Sciences - Journal of College Science Teaching
• Effects of Graduate Teaching Assistant Attire on Student Learning, Misbehaviors, and Ratings of Instruction - Communication Quarterly, Vol. 45,No3, Summer 1997, Pages 125-141
• What Defines Effective Chemistry Laboratory Instruction? Teaching Assistant and Student Perspectives - Journal of Chemical Education
• Essential Learning Outcomes - LEAP
• Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford has several resources for TAs
• The Delta program at UW is dedicated to integrating research, teaching, and learning
• Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students by Steve Stearns
• A reply to Stearns
• Office of Educational Development at UC/Berkeley
• “Making the Grade” by Kurt Wiesenfeld - in Newsweek
• Teaching Tips Index, Honolulu Community College
• UCLA Office of Instructional Development

Training opportunities

• Comm B training

• Equity and Diversity Training: offered by the Equity and Diversity Resource Center. You must attend this training (and teach for 2 semesters) to advance from “Regular” to “Experienced” in TA status.
• New TA welcome letter from OEDD
• Spoken English Proficiency of non-native English Speaking L&S Teaching Assistants
  • SPEAK Test Schedule
  • L & S Policy of English Proficiency (pdf)
• L&S TA Training

Graduate Assistant Benefits

• Benefits Seminar
• Benefit forms and applications

Campus Resources

• McBurney Disability Resource Center
• Office of the Dean of Students
• University Health Service
• Division of Information Technology
• Classlists (free listserv for your class)
• Institute for Biology Education
  
  
  If you have additional resources to list here or if you have questions, please contact the Department at 262-1051.