Teaching Assistants — Teaching Resources

As teaching assistants you occupy a special place in a university. You're experts on being students — you've been at it for 16 years or more. And you've experienced all kinds of teaching styles and professors. You have the opportunity to learn a range of pedagogies and methods as you begin to find your own teaching style.

10 Strategies for Encouraging Critical Thinking and Learning — Learning activities and assignments that can trigger deeper learning.

Getting Students to Interact with the Text — How do you get students to really understand what they are reading?

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) — An introduction, with examples, of a versatile assessment tool.

Other Resources

PROMISE
http://www.umbc.edu/promise/

PROF-it
http://www.umbc.edu/promise/pages/PROF-it description.htm

Teaching and Learning Topics

• Academic Integrity
• Active Learning
• Assignments that Help Students Learn More Effectively
• Civility in the Classroom
• Crafting Effective Lectures
• Designing and Managing Effective Group Learning
• Designing Courses
• Developing Students Thinking Skills
• Discussion Leading
• Evaluating Your Teaching
• Getting Students to Read
• Measuring Student Learning
• Motivating Students
• Reflective Teaching Habits
• Service Learning
• The Professional Development of Graduate Students
• The Syllabus as a Teaching Tool
• Teaching Freshmen
• Teaching Portfolio
• Testing and Grading
• Time Management
• Writing and Critical Thinking