Passport to Teach and Learn: Supporting Graduate Teaching Assistants and New Nontenured Faculty

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Abstract

Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) like new teachers in the field, are faced with many challenges such as mastering the content knowledge, understanding their students and the culture of the institution, managing their classrooms, and attending to the administrative tasks associated with teaching. Hence, Passport to Teach and Learn is a research initiative that aims at providing professional development and teacher strategy training for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). In this paper, we report on the findings of the pilot study where we surveyed the (GTAs) and program chairs from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education to assess each program’s needs regarding teaching, learning, and development. Data were analyzed using needs assessment (NA)framework.

Authors

• Wesam M. Salem, University of Memphis

• Crystal L. White, University of Memphis

• Olivet Neethipudi, University of Memphis