{"id":277,"date":"2009-09-03T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-09-03T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T20:04:41","slug":"beginning-fall-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/2009\/09\/03\/beginning-fall-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Fall 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September is upon us! Events are moving right along&#8230; yesterday was TA Development Day, during which PhD student Lara Aknin and I led a full day of events for our new and returning TAs. The focus was on basic skill development, including\u00a0ways to promote a smooth semester for oneself, students, and the instructor;\u00a0dealing with critical incidents professionally; developing grading rubrics;using course-related technologies (e.g., WebCT Vista, Turnitin.com, the library website,\u00a0&amp;the Scantron machine); and becoming familiar with relevant policies.\u00a0Thanks to everyone who helped out on the organizing team, and for everyone who came and participated.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday brings the start of the semester&#8230; welcome (back)! We&#8217;ll be kicking off the\u00a0year with Imagine UBC, including Psychology-specific events (check out the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). Classes will begin on Tuesday evening. I&#8217;m excited and a bit nervous for the first days of classes, but I have many plans in place to make this semester an enjoyable &amp; educational one for all of us. See you in class!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is upon us! Events are moving right along&#8230; yesterday was TA Development Day, during which PhD student Lara Aknin and I led a full day of events for our new and returning TAs. The focus was on basic skill <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/2009\/09\/03\/beginning-fall-2009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Beginning Fall 2009<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4281,4282,1],"tags":[4044,5091],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-from-professional-development-activities","category-reflections-from-the-classroom","category-uncategorized","tag-excitement","tag-ta-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}