Teaching Tips

• Effective Questioning Enhances Student Learning (.pdf, 188kb)

• Wait - Time (.pdf, 188kb)

• Ten Suggestions for Teaching Problem Solving (.pdf, 50kb)

• Encouraging Participation in the Classroom (.pdf, 284kb)

• When Students Haven't Done the Reading (.pdf, 48kb)

• Acknowledging Responses and Dignifying Errors (.pdf, 236kb)

• Dramatic Ideas for the Classroom (.pdf, 204kb)

• Discussion Sections (TA Handbook)

• Strategies to Enhance Learning (TA Handbook)

• Cooperative Learning Groups (TA Handbook)

• Redirecting Questions (.pdf, 200kb)

• Making Discussions and Lectures More Interesting (.pdf, 268kb)

• 10 Ways to Start Discussion (.pdf, 204kb)

Tips for Lab Sections

• Lab Sections and the TA (TA Handbook)

• Ten Suggestions for Teaching Problem Solving (.pdf, 140kb)

• Acknowledging Responses and Dignifying Errors (.pdf, 45kb)

• Wait - Time (.pdf, 45kb)

• Redirecting Questions

Tips for International TAs

• Strategies for Non-Native English Speaking TAs (TA Handbook)

• Useful Phrases for Classroom Communication (International TA Handbook)

Special Issues

• Recommendations for First Time TAs (.pdf, 152kb)

• TA-ing Large Classes

• Lecturing and the TA (TA Handbook)

• Re-Entry Students and the TA (.pdf, 208kb)

• Foreign Language Classes and the TA (TA Handbook)

• TAs as Writing Teachers (TA Handbook)

• Grading Rubrics (.pdf, 292kb)

• Motivating Your Students (.pdf, 352kb)

• Asking Probing Questions (.pdf, 128kb)

• How to Help Students Remember and Understand (.pdf, 248kb)

• Thinking is Driven by Questions (.pdf, 140kb)

• Checking for Student Understanding (.pdf, 300kb)

• How to Use Examples Effectively (.pdf, 388kb)

• Developing Strong TA/Supervisor Relationships (University of Minnesota)

Discipline-Specific Issues

• Physics Labs and Experiments (Washington State University in St. Louis)

• Teaching Statistics Using Small-Group Cooperative Learning by Joan Garfield (Journal of Statistics Education)