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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"GTAs"”.
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Perception of GTAs About Their Graduate Teaching Experiences: The Effects of Pedagogical Support/Mentoring
… offer little or no specific training for their GTAs and, as a result, many of them find themselves confused and frustrated in their duties.</p><p>For this research, an experienced professor of long tenure offered a sixteen-week course in “College Teaching” designed specifically for graduate …
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The Development of Student-Centered Teaching Orientations and Teaching Practices Among Stem Graduate Students
… explored STEM Graduate Teaching Assistants’ (GTAs) beliefs about teaching and teaching practices as they represent an important and under-researched link in the STEM pipeline. This study also explored how STEM GTAs’ beliefs and knowledge about teaching developed across an academic year and …
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An examination of mentoring among graduate teaching assistants
… mentoring among graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Surveys were distributed to GTAs in every department and school at that university. Results indicated that GTAs believe the teaching experience has been good for them, but responded neutrally when asked …
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Disciplinary Participation and Genre Acquisition of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Composition
… the way that new graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in English develop both their professional identity as teachers and their view of Composition as a field. Drawing on social theories of disciplines (Prior, 1998; Hyland, 2004; Carter, 2007), disciplinary enculturation (Hasrati, 2005; Bazerman …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
… and students. Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have unique communication concerns and provide a context to explore how this particular population of teachers interpret and respond to student immediacy cues. While previous research has not always given adequate focus to the transactional …
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues
… and students. Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have unique communication concerns and provide a context to explore how this particular population of teachers interpret and respond to student immediacy cues. While previous research has not always given adequate focus to the transactional …
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Gene transfer agents promote survival and DNA repair during stationary phase for Caulobacter crescentus
Gene transfer agents (GTAs) are prophage-like entities found in many bacterial genomes that cannot propagate themselves and instead package ~5-15 kbp fragments of the host genome that can then be transferred to related recipient cells. Although suggested to facilitate horizontal gene transfer in …
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Investigating the role of teaching circles in composition GTA development: narratives of professional growth and identity formation
… support system for Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in composition courses, with a particular focus on the development of their professional identities and pedagogical practices. Despite the increasing reliance on GTAs in higher education, many existing professional development programs neglect …
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Teaching in a Materials’ World: A Qualitative Study of Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Use of Texts for Teaching Culture in The Spanish Classroom
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are central to lower-division foreign language instruction in U.S. universities, where teaching is structured around standardized syllabi, shared assessments, and textbook-driven curricula. In many programs, the syllabus itself is organized around the adopted …
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Valuing the Everyday: A Verbal Study in GTA Response to Pre-Designed Curriculum
… analysis of verbs emphasizes the experiences of GTAs interacting with pre-designed curriculum, a site of possible professional development support. After conducting four interviews with GTAs, the interview transcripts went through a multi-step in-vivo coding process which uncovered eight …
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The Motivation and Identity Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants in First-Year Engineering Programs
… Assistants (TAs) who may be graduate students (GTAs) or undergraduate students (UTAs). The roles of TAs in first-year engineering courses vary from instructional staff to lab supervisors to graders, but despite their widespread use, little is known about the TAs' experiences. This study fills a …
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The effect of a feedback system on teacher performance in writing conferences
… of interactions and content in each of the GTAs’ conferences with students in this study. After the printouts were generated, I conducted feedback interviews following the first and second set of text-based conferences. Transcripts of these taped feedback interviews were also analyzed. I …
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Self-efficacy, the Innovation-Decision Process, and Faculty in Higher Education: Implications for Faculty Development
… adoption of innovations by teaching faculty and GTAs in higher education. Specifically, three types of self-efficacy (college teaching, teaching with technology, and general) were considered in light of demographic variables and Rogers' model of the innovation-decision process. Most significant …
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The formation of teaching identities among novice social science seminar tutors: A longitudinal study at the London School of Economics and Political Science
… social science graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) formed identities as academic teachers during their first two years inservice. These tutors participated in the London School of Economics' Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) during these two years. Changing identity …
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistants' Conceptions of Teaching
… UTAs and graduate student teaching assistants (GTAs), the effects of professional development on teaching conceptions and approaches, and the effects of teaching approaches on student learning. The literature on professional development for UTAs in teaching and learning was limited, and there …
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CONDITIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: THEORIZING CRITICAL COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY WITH/IN THE CLASSROOM USING A LENS OF RELATIONAL SAFETY
… focus groups, four graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) interviews, and 23 individual student interviews. Findings revealed five major themes that are salient for the emergence and development of a teaching practice which nurtures feelings of safety in the teacher-student relationship: 1) …
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‘Restor(y)ing their position in the spotlight, please welcome back on stage… Postgraduate Students who teach… or Graduate Teaching Assistants... or Teaching Postgrads… or…’
… the concept of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) and explores the many different challenges that face teaching postgraduate students within the sector, as voiced by the postgraduate students themselves. Guided by a Foucauldian theorisation, that suggests power can be pervasive and capillary, …