Maybe you're an undergraduate or graduate student who's just been appointed a TA. Or maybe you're a postdoctoral student or a new hire with limited teaching experience. In either case, you'll be expected -- with little to no training -- to enhance the learning experience of students. Kathy Nomme and Carol Pollock recognize this gap between…

New college instructors often are advised, coached, and mentored by department professors who may not have scheduled class time to meet regularly with their novice educators. This book meets many of the principles outlined in the position statements of the Conference on College Composition and Communications and the Council of Writing Program…

The High School Workshops in Careers in Education serve as preservice and inservice training experience for high school students, to stimulate their interest and expand their early involvement in careers in education. The major objectives of the workshops are to identify and attract high school students to new insights and dimensions in education…

This manual is a collection of analects from seven university manuals for indoctrinating graduate assistants in the teaching of undergraduate mathematics courses. Topics and exercises deal with class conduct, record keeping, chalkboard techniques, homework, test construction, question strategies, attitude, and Polya's ten commandments. Included…

Seeks to guide language program coordinators in the creation of a teaching assistant (TA) handbook on logistics and administrative duties in second and foreign language programs at the university level. (Author/VWL)

This publication, written partly in response to increased interest in collective bargaining among graduate student workers, is a directory of recognized graduate employee labor organizations and other student organizations not yet recognized as bargaining agents. Section 1 contains entries on recognized collective bargaining agents organized by…

This publication contains course outlines and descriptions of seminars from graduate level courses on how to teach sociology to undergraduates. Some of the outlines are detailed, other outlines in the publication are brief. For example, the first syllabus is a detailed description by class session of a seminar-practicum on the teaching of…

This manual contains rules for playing both training and contest versions of LAG (Language Assistant Game). LAG (Training) is designed to give language assistants practice in the general teaching skill of explaining. One of the many problems that may confront the assistant in the classroom is the situation where, after reading a passage or telling…

The 1975 Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty handbook, after a brief examination of the institution and its objectives discusses: (1) organization; (2) faculty and staff; (3) obligations of the staff; (4) tenure; (5) staff appointment policy; (6) staff benefits; (7) relationships and responsibilities toward students and employees; (8)…

This book is for teachers and teaching assistants (TAs) seeking to improve the ways that they work together to meet the needs of children in their classes. The number of teaching assistants (including learning support assistants who support children with special educational needs) has expanded greatly in recent years, a trend which is set to…

In a letter to her mother, herself a former English teacher, a teaching assistant details impressions of her first year in the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). During a semester an instructor gets to know writing students individually in a way that pierces deeply through the veneer of stereotype. The class published…

Intended to assist both with the general preparation of personnel matters and the necessary documents for placing appointees on the official payroll of Southern Illinois University, the 1973 faculty handbook includes: (1) budget authority and responsibility; (2) faculty and administrative staff; (3) promotions; (4) salaries; (5) tenure; and (6)…

This manual is the final report on a two-year project to enhance the effectiveness of teaching assistants. It is designed as a workbook for persons conducting instructional programs for teaching assistants and is specific to teaching assistants in engineering and the natural sciences. The manual contains an introduction and six chapters. Chapter…

This book contains a collection of self-instructional modules for college faculty and teaching assistants. The modules address key aspects of teacher-learner interaction, including setting of course objectives, preparing lectures, conducting classroom discussions, preparing various types of tests (multiple choice, true-false, matching test items,…

The guide is addressed to the colleagues of the foreign language assistant in the languages departments since the assistant's work, to a large extent, depends on a successful relationship with them. The foreign language assistant is defined as a native speaker of a foreign language, e.g. French, German, Spanish, Italian, who serves in a British…