It has been the goal of Instructional Development’s campuswide TA Development Program (TADP) to provide activities and to assist in the development of departmental TA training activities in order to strengthen the instructional abilities of UCSB’s graduate student teaching assistants. The outcomes expected by the TADP are as follows.
As a result of campus TA training activities, TAs are expected to improve their
1. basic presentation skills (e.g., voice volume, pacing, avoidance of speech fillers, good eye contact w/ students, organized boardwork;
2. understanding of and facility in general teaching and discussion skills (e.g., using advanced organizers, organizing, encouraging and focusing discussions, creating learning-centered instruction, grading with rubrics, encouraging discussions focused, interacting with a wide variety of students);
3. ability to evaluate when and how to refer students to various campus resources (e.g., learning skills, tutoring, interpersonal skills, disabilities, conflict resolution, drug and alcohol counseling, sexual harassment, career counseling);
4. ability to create instructional materials including in-print, wet lab exercises, and online interactive exercises that can be effectively assessed and found to enhance student learning.
5. knowledge about teaching and learning and to adopt a scholarly approach to their teaching.
ADVANCED TEACHING COMPETENCIES for FUTURE FACULTY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
Campuswide programs for the preparation of future faculty, including the Summer Teaching Institute for Associates and the Certificate in College and University Teaching include the following competencies.
Ability to create and evaluate a teaching philosophy
Ability to create and evaluate a syllabus
Ability to apply research on teaching and learning to their own instruction and to instruction in general
Ability to discuss the uses and abuses of instructional technologies
Ability to articulate, reflect upon, and evaluate instructional decisions
The overall goal of UCSB’s future faculty programs is to assist graduate students in becoming reflective teacher-practitioners who value and seek to implement a scholarly approach to teaching.
http://www.oic.id.ucsb.edu/ta/TA_Competencies.html