The graduate teaching assistant (GTA): lessons from North American experience

Park, Chris

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“…Graduate student roles include: teaching assistant, graduate assistant, research assistant, and mentor (Austin, 2002;Dolan & Johnson, 2009;Flora, 2007;Gardner & Barnes, 2007;Park, 2004). Graduate students who serve as teaching assistants, for example, teach in classrooms and laboratories, lead discussions, grade student work, and advise undergraduates on academic and non-academic issues (Park, 2004). These opportunities, while providing support to undergraduates, simultaneously train graduate students to deepen their understanding about their discipline and provide opportunities to practice faculty duties (Austin, 2002;Park, 2004).…”

Section: Graduate Students As Important and Influential Actors In Resmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, we focus on the roles that connect graduate students with undergraduates as this is the population that determines HSI status. Graduate student roles include: teaching assistant, graduate assistant, research assistant, and mentor (Austin, 2002;Dolan & Johnson, 2009;Flora, 2007;Gardner & Barnes, 2007;Park, 2004). Graduate students who serve as teaching assistants, for example, teach in classrooms and laboratories, lead discussions, grade student work, and advise undergraduates on academic and non-academic issues (Park, 2004).…”

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Becoming an Hispanic-Serving Research Institution: Involving Graduate Students in Organizational Change

Marín

Pereschica

2018

AMAE Journal

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The changing demographics of higher education have led to an increase in the number and type of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). As research universities continue to see a rise in the enrollment of Latino/a students, a better understanding of the implications of this change within the existing institutional context will be essential to best serve this growing community of students. We position our study within a tradition of organizational culture theory that points to the importance of organizational actors' interpretations, perspectives, and actions in order to understand an organization's general behavior and change. By acknowledging the importance of graduate students within research universities, we focus on their perspectives at an Emerging Hispanic-Serving Research Institution (HSRI) and ask, "What are the organizational culture implications of an HSI designation for a research university?" Our analysis revealed four important themes: communicating institutional pride as an HSRI, engaging the benefits of an HSRI, operationalizing a serving mission, and involving graduate students as institutional actors at HSRIs. Institutional recommendations that follow from our findings include providing clear communication regarding HSI status, objectives, and commitment; assessing the campus climate; and increasing graduate student involvement as key leaders within HSRIs.

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Section: Graduate Students As Important and Influential Actors In Resmentioning

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Becoming an Hispanic-Serving Research Institution: Involving Graduate Students in Organizational Change

Marín

Pereschica

2018

AMAE Journal

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“…Training teaching assistants is important to provide a quality learning experience for students, and this has resulted in many different training programs [23][24][25][26]. In the school, the overwhelming majority of teaching assistants are international PhD students.…”

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Understanding How Students Use and Appreciate Online Resources in the Teaching Laboratory

Nikolic

2015

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-The internet is a great resource student's use for learning. Reasons include the ease in searching with sites such as Google, or the vast collection of informative videos on YouTube. The teaching laboratory can also benefit from online resources, especially when students are deficient in prerequisite knowledge. The benefits are greatest when there are non-standard learning paths, and multiple entry points into a degree. This study undertakes a mixed methods research approach to try and understand how students use and appreciate an online resource, called the Training Laboratory, designed to support learning in the engineering teaching laboratory. The targeted resources are used to help support students as well as the laboratory teaching assistants (called laboratory demonstrators). The study finds that such resources are used by a substantial number of students to aid learning, increasing productivity, and improving teaching. The availability of such targeted resources leads to an improved student experience.

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“…Training programs for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in the United Kingdom, too, traditionally have been peremptory, since "the more common model in the UK is still the graduate student who teaches, [but] whose main role is as a research student" (Park, 2004, p. 349). But the sense of teacher education as a distraction rather than a central concern in preparing students for academic work seems irresponsible in the face of a cloudy employment outlook that places new importance on teaching (Boman, 2008;Chism, 1998;Park, 2004;Wulff & Austin, 2004).…”

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Teaching and Learning SoTL: Preparing Future Faculty in a Pedagogy Course

Auten

Twigg

2015

Teaching & Learning Inquiry

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The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) offers a way of equipping graduate students for monitoring, assessing, and reflecting on their teaching and their students' learning in higher education. After reviewing recent literature about the ways graduate students prepare for teaching, this essay presents an example of one way SoTL can inform teaching and teacher education as part of a graduate seminar. When a SoTL approach was integrated into a course about teaching in higher education, the course itself became a faculty-graduate student collaborative project. This essay demonstrates the potent circularity of the reflective teaching practice that drives the course and inspires similar practice in its students, which in turn informs subsequent iterations of the course.

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The graduate teaching assistant (GTA): lessons from North American experience

Cited by 141 publications

References 30 publications

Becoming an Hispanic-Serving Research Institution: Involving Graduate Students in Organizational Change

Becoming an Hispanic-Serving Research Institution: Involving Graduate Students in Organizational Change

Understanding How Students Use and Appreciate Online Resources in the Teaching Laboratory

Teaching and Learning SoTL: Preparing Future Faculty in a Pedagogy Course

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