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Orientation

Join the Graduate Teaching Assistant Program (GTAP) Orientation for an introduction to GA requirements, privileges, campus resources, and teaching ideas. Enhance your skills and knowledge as an instructor while maintaining a focus on your own studies. Gain valuable experience and receive support to excel in your role.

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Orientation

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  1. Graduate Teaching Assistant Program Orientation Fall 2017

  2. Introductions • Geri Rypkema, Assistant Provost, Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships • Lisa Rice, Associate Professor, Special Education and Disabilities Studies, Instructor for the On-line GTA Course • Eileen Lavelle, Assistant Director, Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships

  3. Quote to Guide Us…

  4. Why Are You Here? • Benefits the GW students you serve • Benefits • Learn to be a professor • Prepare for ANY position in which you do presentations, training • Hone other employment skills (communication, teamwork, technology literacy) • Really learn the material you teach

  5. Elements of GTAP • GTAP Orientation: Today’s workshop on GA requirements, privileges, campus resources, and teaching ideas to get you started • Instructional Presentation: Today’s mini-teaching demonstrations, with feedback on presentation skills • (If Native Language is not English) Oral English Proficiency Screening(OEPS) with Speech and Hearing Clinic • Orientation Evaluation: GA feedback about today’s Orientation.

  6. Elements of GTAP • Online GTA Certification Course UNIV 0250.DE: • Readings/resources and short assignments in Blackboard • No charge • Pass-fail • MUST COMPLETE and PASS to: • Continue as a GA in future semesters or years • Be eligible to teach a course at GW independently

  7. More Elements of GTAP • Departmental Training and Guidance: Most important: Seek feedback • Departmental Evaluation: Mentoring professor’s evaluation of your semester’s GA performance.

  8. Broad Responsibilities as an Instructor(Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Canada) • Display content competence • Displaypedagogical competence • Dealsensitivelywith sensitive topics • Fosterstudent development • Avoid dual relationships • Maintainconfidentiality • Showrespectfor colleagues • Perform valid assessmentsof students • Showrespectfor the institution

  9. Payment Process • GA salary payments are issued on the last business day of the month. • Direct Deposit, OR • Mailed to permanent address • GA salary requirements for payments to be made: • Tax paperwork (W-4, etc.) must be completed • Employment Verification Form (I-9), Part I & Part II • All paperwork can be completed at the Faculty and Staff Service Center, Rice Hall, 2121 Eye Street, First Floor

  10. Perks • GA Parking: For discount, complete form at Student Parking Services in Colonial Central, Marvin Center, Ground Floor • Services: Do IT training in Word, Excel, PowerPoint; use of Instructional Technology Lab in Gelman, Blackboard training, etc.

  11. You’re Not Alone! • Faculty mentor • Department chair: if you have problems with your faculty mentor • GTAP website:www.gwu.edu/~fellows/GTAP • Online GTA course: great web resources on teaching • Mental Health Services: https://healthcenter.gwu.edu/mental-health(4-5300): help for psychological problems; stress mgt., study skills, test anxiety, time mgt. workshops; peer tutoring program • CARE Network: https://students.gwu.edu/care: Do you know a student who could use extra support? Use the CARE Network Report.

  12. You’re Not Alone! • The Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities and the Office of Academic Integrity • 4-6757 • https://studentconduct.gwu.edu • Supports the university’s academic community and supplies and oversees policy and procedures at GW.

  13. You’re Still Not Alone! • Gelman (or Himmelfarb) Library • Reference Desk (4-6558) • Help researching topics & training students in library research skills • Division of Information Technology (IT) • The IT training unit (4-4948) • teachme@gwu.edu • http://it.gwu.edu/training • Provides both classroom and online training in PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and more if you sign in through Skillport or GLearn

  14. You’ll Never Walk Alone! • Writing Center • 4-3765 • Help with papers • See University Writing Program website, https://writingcenter.gwu.edu, especially the WID Studio, for guidance on teaching writing • Disability Support Services • 4-8250 • Help for students needing accommodations • International Services Office • 4-4477 • Help for international students

  15. You’re a Student First! • Take your GA responsibilities seriously, but don’t let them consume you. • Work no more than 20 hours/week on average. • #1 priority is your own studies!

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