Have students create portfolios and resumes. This helps them show off the breadth of their skills. and connect their learning to real-world job skills.
Reflect on how implicit bias impacts your teaching so that media representations of female students and students of color don't impact your classroom.
Have teaching assistant candidates do a mock teaching and debugging session in the interview process to begin their training assess their ability to scaffold students’ learning.
Motivate unpaid teaching assistants (TAs) by creating a TA community, recognizing excellent TAs, and offering TAs a letter of recommendation.
Give teaching assistants (TAs) opportunities for contributing to the course and TA program to increase their investment in the class and reduce your workload.
Organize weekly sessions for teaching assistants to discuss their experiences assisting students, learn from each other, and prepare for teaching.
Host group grading sessions to provide opportunities for teaching assistants to interact with each other and avoid falling behind in grading.
Create an online staff chat-room to help undergraduate teaching assistants form community, ask for help, and share teaching strategies.