scholarly journals From Teaching Assistant Training (TA) to Workplace Learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Cynthia Korpan

In this paper, I propose a renewed look at how teaching assistants (TAs) are being prepared to fulfill their duties in higher education. I argue that the apprenticeship model of learning that is currently in use be replaced by the more holistic workplace learning approach. Workplace learning theories take into consideration the complexity of the learning situation of the TA.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Gerry Gourlay ◽  
Cynthia Korpan

In this case study, a graduate student and staff member show how an institution wide program, aimed at enhancing learning and teaching in higher education, exemplifies Matthews’s (2017) “Five Propositions for Genuine Students as Partners Practice” at the department level. To do so, we describe the five propositions in relation to the Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC) program that positions a graduate student leader in each department to support new Teaching Assistants (TAs). Through comparison, we look at how the program is inclusive, exhibits strong power-sharing capabilities through continual reflection and conversation, is ethical, and is strongly transformative.


1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Mueller ◽  
Baron Perlman ◽  
Lee I. McCann ◽  
Susan H. McFadden

The quality and type of instruction teaching assistants (TAs) receive provide basic preparation for a faculty career. We sampled 249 chairs of psychology departments offering doctoral programs. Questionnaire results show that faculty respondents (a) identify TA responsibilities in a variety of pedagoical areas, (b) describe a diverse set of TA training components, and (c) rate TA supervisors as experienced in both working with TAs and as undergraduate teachers. Faculty respondents describe a pedagogical base from which new faculty with TA experience may continue to develop as teachers.


Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Mio Tsubakimoto

Teaching assistants (TAs) play a key role in helping undergraduate university students with their studies. However, there is a lack of formal training provided to TAs and their role is not always clearly defined. Project Associate Professor Mio Tsubakimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan, is seeking to make improvements to this situation by enhancing the education provided to TAs and, in the process, improving university education. FIrst, Tsubakimoto set out to understand the role played by TAs from the perspective of students, teachers and the TAs themselves and build a picture of the set of skills and techniques that make a good TA. To do this she qualitatively and quantitatively studied how the different classes and lectures that make up First Year Seminars (FYS) were taught, as well as surveying TAs, with a view to implementing improvements to TA training. These investigations led to the development and distribution of a guide for TA training and content that incorporates active learning. Following two years of training TAs using the guide, Tsubakimoto repeated the surveys in order to assess the ways in which the implementation of the guide had enhanced TA performance. She found that the presence of trained TAs led to improved student and faculty performance. The research underlined the benefits of the presence of trained TAs in the classroom for university learning, both for the students and for the TAs themselves, enabling them to reach their full potential.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandu Lal Chandrakar ◽  
Yuan Bentao

This exploratory study critically investigates the teaching assistant regulations of higher education institutions of China. On the basis of content analysis of the teaching assistant regulations of five premier universities of China this study analyses the possible discrepancies that might compromise the principles of transparency, equal opportunity and encouraging excellence as stipulated in the vision, mission, and goal of the regulations. Teacher assistants do make more than two third of the academic staff at the universities in China. Besides, China has a second largest higher education system in terms of scale in the world. Practices of sharing skills and imparting knowledge at these institutions have been intermediated by a semi-institutionalized position, called ‘teacher assistants’. It’s therefore, the informal submission of assignments without record at the PhD level questions the purpose of integrity and academic freedom of the higher education at the universities. On the basis of an instrumentalised framework guided by the dimensions of decision making and learning organization theories this study using content analysis has formulated the recommendations for the institutions while selecting and training the students as teaching assistants. A critical but logical illustration of the teaching assistant regulations has also been detailed regarding academic integrity in this study.


1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 641-641
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-516
Author(s):  
María Ángela Jiménez Montañés ◽  
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Susana Villaluenga de Gracia

The implementation of curricula of degree, within the framework of the European space of higher education (EEES) has been a substantial change in University learning. The student spent acquire knowledge, competencies, being considered as “an identifiable and measurable set of knowledge, attitudes, values and skills related that allow satisfactory performance in real-life situations of work, according to the standards used in the occupational area” (Van-der Hofstadt & Gómez, 2013, p. 30). More specifically, we talk about generic skills, which are the cognitive, social, emotional and ethical (initiative, effort with the quality, liability, etc.) of transferable character that constitute “knowledge be” in vocational training of the University; and specific competencies in the various degrees and disciplines, allowing to specify functions and professional profiles to form. The degree of management and business administration, general objective is to train professionals and experts in the knowledge and use of processes, procedures, and practices employed in organizations. This overall objective implies to consider the interrelationships between the different parts of the Organization and its relationship with the environment. Studies administration and business management are aimed at learning theories, models and tools applicable to the processes of decision and management organizations. According to the book white of the title of the degree in economics and business, published by the national agency of evaluation and quality, distinguish between specific objectives in the field of knowledge and specific objectives in the field of competences and skills. Focusing on the latter, and in accordance with the Subject Benchmark Statements of General Business and Management, published by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in the United Kingdom, the specific objectives in the field of skills and abilities that we focus the work would empower the student to it raise the ethical exercise of the profession, assuming social responsibility in decision-making. In this environment, it is necessary to consider the implementation of the 2014/95/EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial information and information on diversity of certain large companies and certain groups resulted in the publication of the Royal Decree 18/2017, of 24 November, whereby amending the commercial code, the consolidated text of the Capital Companies Act approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2010 of 2 July and the law 22/2015, 20 July audit of accounts , in the field of non-financial information and diversity. This new disclosure requirement for companies leads us to consider the need to introduce a transversal subject in the curricula of students in economics and management and business administration studies, in order to acquire the skills necessary in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), to produce the new business reports.


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