<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div></div><div>Dear Grad Students,</div><div><br></div><div>If you’re interested in opportunities to improve your teaching, please take note of the announcement below. Apologies if you’ve already received this info.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div>Jason</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-4294894730733130506m_3160081630431360394m_-532399149056082282gmail-docs-internal-guid-b7e2676c-7fff-8082-89f3-4f036f792ad5"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Grad Advisors,</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">I hope you had a great summer! Just wanted to start off the Fall quarter by sharing some news and info about the <b>Teaching Assistant Development Program</b> (<a href="http:///" target="_blank">TADP</a>), housed in GradSuccess.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font>We offer a wide variety of Professional Development and Teaching resources and programming for current and aspiring TAs,</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </b><font>including:</font></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/ta-training/orientation" target="_blank">New TA Orientation</a>, which is required of all TAs (the Canvas self-enroll link is on the web page)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/resources/workshops" target="_blank">Workshops</a> on a wide variety of teaching-related topics (see attached flyer)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The highly competitive <a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/university-teaching-certificate" target="_blank">University Teaching Certificate</a> Program (UTC)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stay TA Ready (<a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/stay-ta-ready-certificate-program-0" target="_blank">STAR</a>) Certificate Program</span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/teaching-awards" target="_blank">Teaching Awards</a></font></span></li><li><font><span>Confidential teaching observations</span></font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/resources" target="_blank">Pedagogical Resources</a> for TAs</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">And more, found on <a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">our website</a></font></li></ul><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-4294894730733130506m_3160081630431360394m_-532399149056082282gmail-docs-internal-guid-b7e2676c-7fff-8082-89f3-4f036f792ad5"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please share this email with colleagues or grad students that might be interested in TADP, thanks! L</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">ooking forward to hearing from you or your grad studen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