http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2008/09/22/watering-the-garden-of-future-teachers-ta-training/ explorations and inspirations... in how we learn science Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2008/09/22/watering-the-garden-of-future-teachers-ta-training/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Ben Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:05:14 +0000 http://sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=637#comment-423 Departments vary a lot on their emphasis on TA training. I've seen some that have the program laid out to train every grad student as a potential future professor and others that relegate TAs to grading lab reports. There's also a tendency in some schools to look at TAs as kind of second class grad students behind the RAs, which doesn't exactly encourage the whole teaching enterprise. It's one thing I think grad students should pay close attention to when choosing a grad school. If you want to do the professor thing, there are definitely some better than others. Departments vary a lot on their emphasis on TA training. I’ve seen some that have the program laid out to train every grad student as a potential future professor and others that relegate TAs to grading lab reports. There’s also a tendency in some schools to look at TAs as kind of second class grad students behind the RAs, which doesn’t exactly encourage the whole teaching enterprise. It’s one thing I think grad students should pay close attention to when choosing a grad school. If you want to do the professor thing, there are definitely some better than others.

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