Surveyed new faculty about the pivotal events in their graduate teaching experiences which contributed positively and negatively to their professional development as teacher scholars. Responses fell into the areas of scholastic, planning, management, presentation and communication, evaluation and feedback, and interpersonal skills. (EV)

Provides advice for graduate teaching assistants on how to organize the first meeting of a class and what to include so that they will be regarded as "real" teachers. Also provides a sample outline for a first class period. (SLD)

Describes a training program for graduate teaching assistants at the University of Aukland and a survey showing that support for such training across the campus was inconsistent; while teaching assistants often understood the efficacy of such programs, "decision makers" often did not. (EV)

Describes guidelines used in a teaching assistant development course for the University of California, Davis' physics department, and provides examples of activities that the guidelines inspired. The development course focused on meeting both short-term course preparation goals, and long-term professional development goals. (EV)

Describes a collaborative language-focused curriculum design project in a 3-week training workshop for international teaching assistants. The design attempts to deal with the shortcomings of short and intensive programs. Outlines the theoretical underpinnings and structure and process of the curriculum design effort. (SLD)

Describes a successful workshop for graduate teaching assistants which focused on the "notebook method" of writing scholarly papers. This method transforms writing a paper into managing a project. The method is linked to the pragmatic theory of inquiry developed by Charles Sander Peirce and John Dewey. (DB)

Describes a training program for graduate teaching assistants that utilizes examples, coaching, evaluation, and "prep meetings," conducted like a class in cooperative learning, but emphasizing teaching techniques as well as subject matter. Notes program effectiveness is assessed by classroom evaluations, student feedback, and self-evaluations.…