Overcome Your Fear Factor

Welcome

Concurrent Sessions (choose one)

For New TAs

• What to do the first day of class:
  Setting the Tone for a Successful Semester
  
• Anyone? Anyone?
  Motivating Classroom Discussion (repeats at 11:15)

For Experienced TAs and AIs

• Self-Regulated Learning:
  Helping Your Students Learn How to Learn
  
• The Challenge of TA'ing in Large Classes:
  Learning What Works

Concurrent Sessions

For New TAs

• Introduction to Blackboard
  (See also the Post-Seminar workshops offered by CIT below.)
  
• Interactive Teaching (3 sessions)
  a) Natural Sciences, b) Liberal Arts, c) Labs

For Experienced TAs and AIs

• What Are Our Students Really Learning?
  CATS (Classroom Assessment Techniques) can tell you
  
• Anyone? Anyone?
  Motivating Classroom Discussion (also at 11:15am)
  
• Teaching On-Line
  

Concurrent Sessions (choose one)

For New TAs

• Panel:
  Experienced International TAs discuss
  their UT classroom experiences
  
• Establishing and Maintaining Effective Communication
  with your Supervising Professor and with your Students

For Experienced TAs and AIs

• Developing a Teaching Portfolio
  
• Grading: Establishing Effective Measures
  for Natural Sciences
  
• Grading: Establishing Effective Measures
  for Liberal Arts Essay Exams
  
• Develop More Effective Classes
  Using the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory
  [NOTE: Limited to 40 participants. Sign up at Registration Desk.
  This session ends at 1:30 p.m., not 1:05 p.m.]
  

ADJOURN: Wrap-up and Evaluations