University of Sheffield - Open Educational Resources
GTA Development Program
University of Sheffield - Open Educational Resources
GTA Development Program
This site is an Open Educational Resource (OER) containing guidance and a file pack that you can download and adapt/use for your own training of GTAs (Graduate Teaching Assistants). This contains all you need (hopefully) to implement a highly effective GTA development program in your own University.
We always want to learn more about how others approach GTA training, so if you want to share ideas or talk about any of this content then please get in touch:
Harry Day | h.day@sheffield.ac.uk Matteo Di Benedetti | m.dibendetti@sheffield.ac.uk
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Contents (see navigation pane):
0. Home (this page)
Why use GTAs?
If you can do all your teaching on your own, then good for you! Mostly however, we need GTAs for several reasons:Why train GTAs
GTAs often have no prior teaching experience, so we need to train them for many reasons:Why train GTAs… like this?
Underneath all the details in this OER (site), the program is effective for GTAs for a just few key reason:Turn over to Page 1 to see how the overall programme is layed out!