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

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2014, Volume 35

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

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)