[Gradstudents] Registration for Fall 2021 New Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation - Now Open

[Heather Killeen]

Dear GSOE Graduate Students:

Please find the email below regarding the mandatory New Teaching Assistant Orientation hosted by Teaching Assistant Development Program (TADP).

PhD students with a fellowship starting their second year Fall 2021: unless you have worked out a GSR (researcher) position with your faculty advisor, you will likely be a TA next year. Please RSVP for this orientation. Annual TA assignment letters will be emailed later in the summer.

All other students: only register for TA orientation if you have secured a TA position for Fall 2021 and have not previously completed the training.

Let me know if you have any questions.

-Heather

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Good afternoon,

Registration for Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 Graduate Division New Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation is now open through our website: https://tadp.ucr.edu/ta-training/orientation



The orientation is mandatory for all new teaching assistants, even if they have worked as a TA at another institution. Once the UCR Graduate Division New TA Orientation has been completed, the student will not need to take it again.



All New TA Orientation components for Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 will be conducted online via Canvas/eLearn. The orientation will be asynchronous; however, our expectation is that each TA will complete the required training between the beginning of the quarter (September 20th) and the conclusion of Week 3 (October 15th). In accordance with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement currently in place with the union representing graduate student workers, the required elements of the training (as mandated by the Academic Senate) should take approximately four hours to complete. Resources for both classroom and online teaching technologies, relevant campus partners, and best practices in pedagogy will be provided in additional, non-mandatory sessions.



The Fall 2021 New TA Orientation will include:

  *   Mandatory session on basic pedagogy (organization, instruction, and knowledge)
  *   Mandatory session on teaching in a diverse classroom and building rapport with students
  *   Mandatory session on TA rights and responsibilities
  *   Mandatory session on FERPA rules and regulations for TAs
  *   Mandatory presentation by the UAW
  *   Campus resource materials
  *   Pedagogical resource materials
  *   Technological resource materials



The Teaching Assistant Development Program (TADP) has limited staff and resources so, if graduate students fail to complete the required trainings by the deadlines outlined, we cannot guarantee that everyone will be certified.



Registration and other information available here: https://tadp.ucr.edu/ta-training/orientation.



If you have any questions, feel free to email me at tadp at ucr.edu<mailto:tadp at ucr.edu>.



Best,

-Sarah



Sarah Murray, M.A.

Pronouns: she|her|hers

Coordinator, Teaching Assistant Development Program (TADP)

University of California, Riverside

Email: tadp at ucr.edu<mailto:tadp at ucr.edu>

Website: https://tadp.ucr.edu/
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