EDUC 775

This is a special, free, one-credit course that is mandatory for all incoming teaching assistants. It consists of two days of pre-term TA Orientation workshops and four two-hour workshops scheduled during the term.

Objectives

This course is designed to provide teaching assistants with the following:

1. Understanding of the role and value of the TA in the Drexel undergraduate academic experience
2. Awareness of the expectations and needs of a diverse student population
3. Awareness of support services, instructional resources and technology: audio visual and online,
4. Understanding of teaching tasks and opportunities to practice doing them:
   • prepare for a class
   • create a lesson plan   
   • introduce yourself to a class  
   • reate an interactive learning environment
   • present material in different ways to accommodate different backgrounds and styles of learning   
   • field student questions
   • give feedback
   • grade      
   • evaluate good teaching practices  
   • manage challenging classroom and office hour situations

Materials

• TA Handbook: The Effective Teaching Assistant
• Observation Form
• Course Evaluation Form
• TA Group Activity: College Education Across Cultures
• Instructional Media Services
• Information Resources & Technology for Faculty &TAs
• Feedback Form

Week 2 Materials - October 5, 2012

• Lesson Planning for TA's
• MI Theory for TA's

Week 3 Materials - October 15, 2012

• TA Workshop