Online Learning

Introduction

Online learning has become a very effective way to serve education. The best way of maintaining a good online learning environment is by ensuring the educators are fully trained and interested in teaching online in a web based environment. Sometimes learning online is challenging because of technical difficulties and lack of quality interaction between learners and educators. To ensure delivering a quality education, there are some responsibilities as a role of Teaching Assistant. The interaction between students and instructors enhance student learning.

Understanding your course

As a TA one of your most important responsibilities as you will be hosting weekly office hour where students can receive extra help. However, doing so isn't as easy as simply setting a date, time, and place for students to meet you. It turns out, conducting effective and engaging office hours where students come out with more than they came in with is slightly more complicated. Thus, this section aims to help you achieve this by going over how to prepare for your office hours, how to set boundaries between yourself and students, how to get students engaged, and how to properly guide students.

Challenges for TAs

As a TA one of your most important responsibilities as you will be hosting weekly office hour where students can receive extra help. However, doing so isn't as easy as simply setting a date, time, and place for students to meet you. It turns out, conducting effective and engaging office hours where students come out with more than they came in with is slightly more complicated. Thus, this section aims to help you achieve this by going over how to prepare for your office hours, how to set boundaries between yourself and students, how to get students engaged, and how to properly guide students.

Student Learning Assessment

As a TA one of your most important responsibilities as you will be hosting weekly office hour where students can receive extra help. However, doing so isn't as easy as simply setting a date, time, and place for students to meet you. It turns out, conducting effective and engaging office hours where students come out with more than they came in with is slightly more complicated. Thus, this section aims to help you achieve this by going over how to prepare for your office hours, how to set boundaries between yourself and students, how to get students engaged, and how to properly guide students.

Online TA Tips

As a TA one of your most important responsibilities as you will be hosting weekly office hour where students can receive extra help. However, doing so isn't as easy as simply setting a date, time, and place for students to meet you. It turns out, conducting effective and engaging office hours where students come out with more than they came in with is slightly more complicated. Thus, this section aims to help you achieve this by going over how to prepare for your office hours, how to set boundaries between yourself and students, how to get students engaged, and how to properly guide students.

Resources

For instructors, a plan for Teaching Assistants (TAs) help running the course more smoothly and enhance the learning experience for the students. Effective training and advising of Teaching Assistants (TAs) benefit both the students in their learning and TAs in their professional development. Working effectively as a Teaching Assistant also accelerate their professional development. Perticipating in CTI's Teaching Assistant Online Orientation is helpful to prepare incoming TAs for their teaching responsibilities. This provides information and guidelines to prepare teaching, classroom roles and strategies, policies and campus resources.