Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 2 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 15 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 36 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 60 |
Descriptor
| Graduate Students | 90 |
| Teaching Assistants | 90 |
| Teaching Experience | 90 |
| Higher Education | 31 |
| Student Attitudes | 28 |
| Teaching Methods | 25 |
| Teacher Education | 23 |
| College Faculty | 20 |
| Undergraduate Students | 16 |
| Teaching Skills | 14 |
| Mentors | 11 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
| Higher Education | 63 |
| Postsecondary Education | 47 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
| Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
| Teachers | 5 |
| Practitioners | 4 |
| Administrators | 2 |
| Students | 1 |
Location
| United Kingdom | 4 |
| Canada | 3 |
| United States | 2 |
| Canada (Toronto) | 1 |
| China | 1 |
| Colorado (Denver) | 1 |
| Illinois (Champaign) | 1 |
| India | 1 |
| Nepal | 1 |
| New Jersey (Newark) | 1 |
| New York | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkTulane, Sarah; Beckert, Troy E. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
This qualitative analysis examines responses from individuals who completed a robust graduate instructor training program--a guided mentoring forum that meets bi-weekly, beginning the semester prior to the graduate students' first teaching assignment, and continuing through the totality of their teaching experience in graduate school. Current and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Teacher Education, Student Attitudes
Dixon, Cory E.; Russell, Jared A.; Hastie, Peter A. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2022
Purpose: This study examined the pedagogical experiences of former graduate teaching assistants following their teaching experiences at a youth development center. Method: A case study approach was utilized to investigate each participant case while a phenomenological approach was employed to analyze each case. The participants, Malik, Dante, and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Physical Education, Student Attitudes
Collins, Jo; Brown, Nicole; Leigh, Jennifer – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
This article reports on a study with over 100 Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), 69 of whom were international GTAs. We explore their experiences of 'cultural bumps' in their transition into one UK University. Following the principles of practice-based enquiry, data collection combined interviews with data generated in workshops, including…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Cultural Differences
Megan Covington – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Black women are severely underrepresented in faculty careers. To begin moving towards action in eradicating the policies and practices used against Black women to keep them from successfully obtaining faculty roles, we must first look to challenges and opportunities faced during doctoral training that negatively impact the faculty pipeline. As…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Teaching Experience
Download full textJessica Cherry; Carly Densmore – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2024
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are faced with managing how to respond to student disclosures of grief in the classroom but often lack grief training from their universities when these instances occur. Good and Mad grief, and Critical Grief Pedagogy (CGP) are the frameworks for which this study is positioned. Through interviews with GTAs in…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship
Baker, Micah; Richardson, Stephanie; Rubio, Fernando – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2022
Extensive research supports the claim that student-instructor interaction is an essential element of successful online teaching. It is less clear, however, whether teaching presence is discipline-specific, or how it may be affected by the personal and professional background of individual instructors. This article describes the quantitative…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction
Thompson, Courtney M.; Bowlick, Forrest J. – Geography Teacher, 2022
Pandemic teaching during COVID-19 has further magnified the unsustainable and fraught nature of teaching across schools and universities worldwide (Singer 2020). The remote turn to emergency remote teaching (ERT)--so-called "Zoom University" (Martin et al. 2020)--brings with it immense challenges of access, equity, outreach, and mental…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Wei Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As more and more international students came to the United States to further their education, the number of international teaching assistants (ITAs) has grown tremendously since 1980s. Among these ITAs, some have been assigned to teach English composition classes to American students. These ITAs form a unique group, and their experience is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Writing Instruction, Teaching Assistants, English Instruction
Ina Zaimi; Daisy B. Haas; Matthew J. Silverstein; Ginger V. Shultz – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) hold a unique positionality as instructors and research mentors to undergraduate students, research mentees to faculty members, and employees to an institution. With limited pedagogical training and teaching resources, the enactment of planned teaching activities and learning resources may be influenced by how…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Reid, Joshua W.; Weigel, Emily G. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2022
Recent reform efforts in postsecondary science teaching have called for shifts in instructional methods to include more evidence-based instructional practices. However, a myriad of factors play a role in whether an instructor adopts these more student-centered methods. One such factor is teaching perspective. In this study, we explored the…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students
Gelinas, Katharine A.; Ovid, Dax; Amaya-Mejia, Wilmer; Ayala, Rafael; Baek, Hanna E.; Gasmin, Eric; Hissen, Karina; Johnson, Amanda; Kossa, Emily; Levesque, Lauren; Lutz, Kurt R.; Lyons, Amichai S.; Mata, Alan F.; Mitchell, Casey G.; Paggeot, Lisa; Pastor-Infantas, Maria José; Patel, Cheryl; Prestol-Casillas, Susan; Chen, Kevin Xu; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Instructor Talk--noncontent and nonlogistical language that is focused on shaping the classroom learning environment--is a recently defined variable that may play an important role in how undergraduates experience courses. Previous research characterized Instructor Talk used by faculty teaching in biology lecture classrooms. However, graduate…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Biology
Ioana, Mi?u Sorina; Cristina, Ghenu Iulia – NORDSCI, 2019
PhD students are a valuable asset for universities as they are able to perform a varied number of activities. Moving on from their basic role of students, their main focus becomes researching on their theses' topics, however a PhD student life does not happen only between the walls of a library. Sometimes, PhD students perform in a benevolent or…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Student Responsibility, Teaching Assistants
Eleni K. Zotos – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Chemistry graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) play a unique but important role in undergraduate STEM education. As leaders of laboratory and discussion sections, GTAs teach fundamental experimental techniques and reinforce course content in classrooms and have more opportunities to interact with students one-on-one or in small groups. GTAs often…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Chemistry, Teaching Assistants, STEM Education
Lutter, Jacob C.; Hale, Lillian V. A.; Shultz, Ginger V. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Graduate students play a critical role in undergraduate education at doctoral-granting institutions and yet their training is often brief and overgeneralized. Little is known about how they develop knowledge for teaching chemistry in this context. To further understand how graduate students develop knowledge for teaching, we used a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Undergraduate Study, College Science, Chemistry
Jahanbani, Nakissa; Willis, Charmaine; Lee, Donnett – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
The learning curve on how to become a Teaching Assistant (TA) can be rather steep. In this paper, the authors explore three areas they wish they were advised in prior to beginning their teaching careers. The lessons are centered on balancing expectations and responsibilities in the following areas: 1) prioritizing their own work and research over…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Reflection, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
