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)

Examined the congruence of professed beliefs about teaching and observed instructional practices of four graduate teaching assistants in an elementary French program at a large state university. Found that their classroom practices were often at odds with their expressed clear beliefs; they attributed this to difficulties arising from their status…

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.…

Investigated how a mathematics pedagogy course challenged teaching assistants' (TAs') beliefs about the teaching and learning of mathematics and informed their teaching practice. Found that TAs adopted a different set of beliefs about the teaching and learning of mathematics and that several constraints (institutional, cultural, a lack of…