TA Activities/EventsTeaching
Assistants are welcomed, and encouraged to attend events sponsored
by the Center for Teaching Excellence.
All Center for Teaching
Excellence events are open to UMaine faculty members, staff, and
graduate students. We also welcome colleagues from the
University of Maine System when they are in the area. Most
of our programs involve pre-registration, so we can better
anticipate the need for materials.
Please
look back later for up coming events
Please note: registration
at all events is required. You may call 581-3472 or send an e-mail
to
CTE@umit.maine.edu
to register for our events
Resources for Teaching
Assistants
In addition to our own
University of Maine Teaching Assistant's Handbook, we found
others that may be useful as well.
Test Scoring Services (moved to Faculty Development
Center)
Contact: (207) 581-1313,
149 Memorial Union
Room Scheduling
Contact: (207) 581-1311,
201 Wingate Hall
The Tutor Program
Contact: (207) 581-2351, 104
Dunn Hall
Arie Bodek and Priscilla
Auchincloss from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the
University of Rochester developed a
Web site containing "Notes and Suggestions for Teaching
Assistants." Effective teaching guidelines and procedures are
emphasized. This site would be particularly suited for those
teaching lab courses, and offers a section on "Advice Regarding
Communication Difficulties."
The Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with
Excellence: A comprehensive list of links for teaching
guidance and ideas from Barbara Gross Davis, Lynn Wood, and
Robert C. Wilson.
Teach Philosophy 101
website developed at Villanova University is intended for new
faculty and TAs who are teaching introductory courses in
Philosophy or other disciplines. The website is designed to
follow the thought process of teaching a course and provides
materials and strategies.
Teaching and Learning Links: A long list of links, which
offer a variety of choices as specific as "teaching tips," and
as general as the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning.
The National Forum for Teaching and Learning on-line
edition--just like the printed version--offers readers
"stimulating insight[s] [regarding] ways of helping students
reach the highest levels of learning." This URL provides
access to the feature article, which is Incivility in the
Classroom this month.
Office of Instructional Consultation at the University of Santa
Barbara: Another list of good tips—each tip is linked
to a bulleted list, which makes for a quick, informative read—or
a list of links that allows you to refine your search.
Topics range from What Constitutes Good Teaching? to
Instructional Uses of the Internet.
