{"id":40,"date":"2017-07-19T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T23:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2018-08-23T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T21:34:44","slug":"training-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/training-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The department of Political Science does not require, but strongly encourages, its TAs to take advantage of professional development opportunities offered at the departmental and university level.<\/p>\n

Departmental Training<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each September the Political Science department holds a workshop for new and returning TAs, with several follow-up thematic sessions throughout the academic year. This year the first workshop will be held Saturday, September 8 in the Buchanan Penthouse (see map below) and\u00a0\"\"will run from 9 am to 3 pm. I will attend this workshop and run a session on essay grading. The workshop will be chaired by your new TA coordinators Veronica Hurtado and Spencer McKay. The workshop touches on a wide array of issues, including discussion of\u00a0equity and inclusion in the university classroom. This event is typically followed by a grading workshop in October, and an April workshop on how to\u00a0design a course syllabus, so check\u00a0<\/span>back later for more information.\u00a0Slides and notes from previous sessions are archived under the Resources tab.<\/span><\/p>\n

University Training<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)\u00a0provides a wide-array of free and ongoing workshops and events for UBC TAs. For more information click here<\/p>\n

Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop \u2013 August 19, 25, 26 2018<\/a><\/h2>\n
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CTLT also\u00a0publishes\u00a0An Instructional Resource Guide for Teaching Assistants<\/a><\/i>\u00a0that contains practical strategies and information to help novice and experienced Teaching Assistants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The department of Political Science does not require, but strongly encourages, its TAs to take advantage of professional development opportunities offered at the departmental and university level. Departmental Training Each September the Political Science department holds a workshop for new and returning TAs, with several follow-up thematic sessions throughout the academic year. This year the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16178,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/psta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}