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Direct linkHardre, Patricia L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2005
Institutions need effective and efficient methods of professional development for preparing graduate students to teach. These skills are important both for their immediate roles as teaching assistants (TAs) and for their eventual roles in the professoriate. An iterative process model from instructional design can function as a cognitive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes, Teaching Assistants, Faculty Development
Peer reviewedSmith, Kathleen S. – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
This case study of an international teaching assistant's experience with college teaching focuses on the process of becoming an effective instructor in the undergraduate classroom. A developmental model that emphasizes clarifying the student's individual linguistic, cultural, social, and professional goals is suggested, and implications for…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Instruction, Foreign Students, Goal Orientation
Peer reviewedTanner, Mark W.; And Others – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
To prepare new international graduate students for assignments as teaching assistants, the University of Washington chemistry department worked with specialists in language, pedagogy, and chemistry to design a discipline-specific training program. The program's structure, participants, benefits and limitations, and effectiveness in its first year…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Instruction, College Science, Foreign Students
Peer reviewedRubin, Donald L. – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
To help international teaching assistants balance their roles as teacher and graduate student, the University of Cincinnati developed a program in classroom communication skills for this population. It begins with naming and social identity but focuses primarily on communication for participative learning. Interacting with academic advisors is…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedThomas, Clayton F.; Monoson, Patricia K. – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
A survey indicates that student complaints led legislators in 20 states to mandate that higher education institutions develop policies on oral English proficiency of instructors, including language certification for international teaching assistants. Many institutions responded with policies requiring formal language testing and remedial…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDavis, William E.; Minnis, Douglas L. – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
In the University of California (Davis) Program in College Teaching, graduate teaching assistants develop and fulfill contractual agreements for faculty-guided investigations into their disciplines, with supporting individualized activities about practices and issues of college teaching. Aspects of the program's development and effectiveness are…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Faculty Development, Graduate Students, Higher Education
