GTA Boot Camp: A Training Program to Prepare First-Time Graduate Student Teaching Assistants

 

Carly N. Jordan, Angela M. Seliga, & Elizabeth A. Faherty

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2014, Volume 35

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Abstract

We tested two different intensive training models to prepare graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) for their first experience teaching laboratory sections. In the first model, GTAs attend two 4-hour training sessions for inquiry-based teaching, Socratic questioning, applying Bloom’s Taxonomy, and providing the GTAs with opportunities to practice using each of these pedagogical techniques. In the second model, GTAs attend one six-hour training session to practice teaching by role-playing prepared scenarios. At ABLE, attendees will receive an introduction to both models with opportunities to practice using our training activities.

Keywords:  pedagogy, Bloom’s Taxonomy, GTA training, role-play, socratic questioning, inquiry-based, teaching workshop

University of Calgary (2013)