*Please note: Interested participants can submit a TA Article at any time before the final two weeks of a term.
- TA Article is a training option that is available to all teaching assistants (including teaching assistants who grade)
- Exceptions:
- Individuals can only submit two articles per academic year (Fall and Winter terms)
- Participants in EDC’s Certificate in Teaching Assistant Skills can count an article towards their 10 Training Sessions, but will still be expected to submit another article to complete the Article requirement
Your TA Article should reflect what you have learned about teaching and, more specifically, your teaching philosophy through your experiences as a teaching assistant.
Articles will be displayed on the TA Talk blog on the TA Support website or distributed to teaching assistants in your department. These articles should be:
- 1-2 pages
- Present an argument (an observation, best practice, or anecdote) that is supported by academic references
- Address the theme of the year. The theme for Fall 2012 is “Preparing Students”
Your article should resemble a brief, thoroughly researched journal publication.
- Begin with a quick survey of teaching and learning journals
- Google search: Faculty Focus blog, Tomorrow’s Professor Listserv, or search engine ERIC (via the Carleton Library website) or one of 300 teaching journals here (several of these are discipline specific).
- Include your: name, student number and academic references
- Compose, edit and proof your content
This year’s theme “Preparing Students” should prompt critical reflection on how your teaching / interactions prepare students for exams, future assignments, the quote/unquote ‘real world’ or even future classes or work in the discipline.
Even if you do not regularly interact with students, you should consider how your teaching – in whichever form it takes – achieves these feats . If you are concerned about your topic, you can submit a proposal to Joe Lipsett to ensure you are on the correct path.
