Mentoring TAs: Program for Instructional Excellence (PIE)
Meet with a Graduate Teaching Enhancement Associate
Teaching Assistants (TAs) can get confidential consultation on any or all teaching skills. Consultations are tailored to meet the needs of individual instructors or entire groups and may include videotaping of classroom teaching.
- Designing a course
- Preparing a syllabus
- Incorporating cooperative and active learning strategies
- Using technology appropriately
- Creating assessments
- Devising effective grading schemes
- Interacting with students
- Classroom observation
After a preliminary consultation to identify needs, concerns, and instructional objectives, instructors may request observation of a class by a teaching consultant, who will prepare a confidential description of the instructor's classroom strengths, as well as suggestions for improving student learning. - Classroom videotaping
Instructors may also arrange to have a prepared segment of their teaching or an entire class period videotaped. Videotapes may be viewed exclusively by the instructor (a checklist of recommended teaching behaviors is available for self-critiquing) or with a teaching consultant, who will provide a confidential report detailing teaching strengths and suggestions for improving student learning. - Teaching Assessment by Students (TABS)
Instructors may request that the interim assessment TABS be administered around mid-semester of any term to help identify ways an instructor can increase student learning. Support in interpreting the results of SUSSAI and SIRS is also available.
Consultations are strictly confidential and may be scheduled year-round. For more information or to schedule a consultation, contact Connie Eudy, 850/644-2947.
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