- Where do I go for books, videos, or other resources related to enhancing my teaching?
The Center for Teaching & Learning houses a library on college teaching resources that includes books, journal, articles, and instructional videotapes available for loan. CTL also publishes and provides access to a number of print, video, and online resources.
- Where do I go for assistance in developing or designing a course, syllabus, or class assignments, or analyzing student feedback?
CTL staff offer one-on-one, confidential consultations with instructors who would like to get feedback on their teaching, explore alternative teaching strategies, create original instructional materials, and interpret student ratings constructively.
- Where do I go for help with assessing my teaching effectiveness?
CTL staff provide confidential class observations. Teaching consultants offer a pre-observation conference to discuss the instructor's goals and identify the specific types of feedback the instructor desires, and then the observation is scheduled at the instructor's convenience. During a post-observation session the consultant describes what was observed and explores instructional improvement strategies with the instructor.
- Where do I go to learn more about enhancing my teaching in general?
Talk to your peers – one of the best resources for teaching in your chosen field are your immediate colleagues. A good way to learn about how best to instruct a particular class, how to relate to an individual professor, or to anticipate common student questions is to simply ask your fellow TAs, particularly experienced ones. After all, they have likely gone through very similar experiences (assisted with the same courses, worked with the same professors, struggled with the same material).
