Individualized TA Training and Professional Development Workshops
The College of Letters & Science is pleased to deliver TA training and professional development workshops to your department, any time of year.
To schedule a 30-90 minute workshop, select a topic that would benefit your course or department TAs and contact Brian Bubenzer to set up a time.
Workshop topics include:
- Understanding student expectations
- Establishing credibility
- Motivating students to participate
- Developing a personal teaching style
- Teaching a required class to non-majors
- Coping with the demands of teaching and graduate work
- Evaluating student performance
- Teaching controversial subjects
- Understanding learning styles
- Creating a positive classroom environment
- Surviving mid-semester doldrums
- Teaching as part of a team
- Managing relationships and power differentials
- Acclimating international TAs
- Your course and the big picture of UW-Madison’s curriculum
- “How am I doing?” - Assessment tools and techniques
- Diversity in the classroom
- The multiple roles of the TA
- Dealing with student issues
- Ethics in college teaching
- Developing a teaching portfolio