It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Well, I took a large part of the summer off to spend with my family. Yesterday was my first day back at work, and today, I have the awesome opportunity to speak to a hundred or so graduate teaching assistants from across the University of Memphis. I was a TA at both Clemson University and at The University of Georgia. So I have a great respect for these folks and the important work you do.
Dr. Karen Weddle-West, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, asked me to share tips on creating effective courses both on ground/on site and online. I’m really super excited to do so. I’ve put together quite a few tips that I use both in my face to face courses and online courses. I have created a page on my professional development wiki at http://viralnotebook.pbworks.com/Graduate-Teaching-Assistantship-Works hop .
I’ve organized the tips into four categories
- Setting student expectations
- Tips for managing a course
- What value am I adding?
- For whom and what purpose is your Powerpoint?
On the wiki page above, you can find all the notes and tips I discussed today, as well as the embedded presentation and the link to download the slides.
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Here are some previous posts that you may be interested in:
Dr. Grant,
Your presentation was the best. As a believer in best teaching practices, I loved that you reminded us that we are here for the students and not here to read PowerPoint. I’ve already borrowed your CSM’s for several of my classes.
I hope U Memphis continues to include you and your presentations in all of their Prof. Development and Training sessions. I hope to take your class one semester, if you’ll allow a music major to join you.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Carolyn Ponce
Thanks, Carolyn, so much for dropping by. I’m really glad you you enjoyed my presentation and found it valuable. Feel free to use whatever you can get your hands on of mine.