TwitterGraduate Teaching Fellows Responsibilities and Benefits
*APPLY NOW: Applications Due April 12, 2013
Responsibilities
As part of the program, Graduate Teaching Fellows
- design and execute a discipline-specific project that contributes to the pedagogical development of graduate students in your department
- develop and facilitate one or more graduate workshops on teaching and learning in the winter or spring quarter
- lead one or more workshops as the New TA Conference at the beginning of the fall quarter
- attend monthly meetings to discuss program initiatives, workshop plans, and teaching practices
- conduct teaching observations for fellow graduate students, as needed
Sample Discipline-Specifc Projects
Brian Clites, Religious Studies
Harmonizing TA and Faculty Voices: A New Dialogue
Brian designed three collaborative workshops, offered throughout the year to confront the most prevalent challenges faced by teaching assistants leading discussion sections for Religious Studies. The workshop topics were selected in consultation with the program's graduate student association and included: (1) Overview: Strategies for Facilitating a Discussion Section; (2) Experimenting With New In-Class Activities; and (3) Growing as a Teacher and Cultivating Your Classroom Persona. Brian also worked with graduate students, faculty, and the director of graduate studies to evaluate departmental procedures and create the first-ever set of departmental TA guidelines, to be ratified by the entire faculty and included in the 2013-14 Religious Studies graduate student handbook.
