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| Abstract Title: | Professional development programs for Graduate Teaching Assistants across three STEM disciplines |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are often the lead instructor in recitations and undergraduate labs. Universities have adopted different strategies to prepare their GTAs for the course content, class management, and teaching methodologies needed to run an effective class. Some of these approaches include pre-semester workshops, academic year workshops, regular meetings with course coordinators, pedagogy courses, and apprentice teaching. These different approaches have a range of goals from content knowledge to understanding research-based teaching methods, to practice in the classroom with feedback. In this talk we present a framework for understanding the range of GTA professional development models and, present our approach to GTA training across three departments - Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science (CS) - at George Mason University. The GTA professional development presented here evolved from local practices to meet the needs of a project that was working to embed more active and collaborative learning in large introductory courses. |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 |
| Poster Number: | B18 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Nishchal Thapa Magar George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 Phone: +1-4439855721 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Jessica L. Rosenberg, George Mason University Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University Marco Brizzolara, George Mason University |
