Teaching Assistant's Guide

How should I prepare to teach a new topic? <p/>How do I balance my time between teaching research and my own classes? <p/>What if the students don't respect me? <p/>New TAs--typically young graduate students--need answers to these and many other questions as they step into their roles as teachers. <em>The Teaching Assistant's Guide</em> offers advice to help first classes go smoothly worksheets to help advance preparation a teaching diary to record experiences and save time guidance for maintaining boundaries proven strategies to increase student participation tips to make grading fast and fair and steps to make a class inclusive and welcoming. Bringing together practical advice from experienced TAs and insights from education research this handbook will help all new teachers get off to a great start. <p/>TAing your first class as a graduate student can feel nerve-racking and overwhelming. It's hard to know what to expect. <em>The Teaching Assistant's Guide</em> is a terrific step by step guidebook to help set you up for success. I wish I had this resource when I was starting out! --<strong>Shannon Odell</strong> <em>Neuroscientist and Science Communicator</em> <p/><em>The Teaching Assistant's Guide</em> fills a gaping hole in the teaching literature. Himelblau creates a terrific road map for TAs with a mixture of cartoons quotes from experienced TAs and his own unique voice. This book is for anyone hoping to improve the classroom experience for TAs and their students. --<strong>Jo Handelsman</strong> <em>Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and author of </em>Scientific Teaching<em> and </em>A World Without Soil