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One
of the primary goals of TA Services at the Center
for Instructional Development & Distance Education (CIDDE)
is to provide teaching assistants with opportunities to acquire
new skills and perfect teaching fundamentals. To better reach this goal, TA Services is taking a new
approach to workshops.
First, we are moving some of our workshops online with an
innovative online newsletter, TATALK (as in “TA talk”). Every other week, a brief essay on teaching skills with
additional resource links is broadcasted to nearly 150
subscribed graduate students on campus.
Second, we are encouraging departments to schedule
workshops tailored to their TAs.
Faculty, staff or graduate students can request a
departmental workshop from TA Services.
Topic suggestions include plagiarism, coping with
difficult situations, the web as a teaching tool, teaching
portfolios or a topic more specific to your department’s
needs.
For more information
on department-based workshops or to sign up for our online
newsletter (for graduate students only), contact TA Services at
CIDDE, 624-6671 or TAHELP@cidde.pitt.edu.
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