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14 Ideas for Helping GSIs Develop Their Skills
Each of the following ideas offers a specific way for you to assist your GSIs in becoming more effective instructors. (Each idea below is further explained when you click on the link.)
- Plan a pre-semester course orientation.
- Know your GSIs.
- Meet weekly with GSIs to talk about teaching.
- Build into the weekly meetings specific pedagogical goals.
- Encourage your students to keep a teaching journal.
- Observe your GSIs in the classroom.
- Encourage GSIs to be videotaped in the classroom.
- Set up a peer observation program.
- Encourage your GSIs to get ongoing feedback on teaching and learning from their students.
- Recommend participation in teaching-related events.
- Help GSIs construct a teaching portfolio.
- Encourage your GSIs to read pedagogical literature.
- View your course as one step in helping GSIs to prepare for their own future roles as professors.
- Take part in the programs for faculty of the GSI Teaching and Resource Center.
Faculty Links:
- Introduction
- Conducting Classroom Observations
- 14 Ideas for Helping GSIs Develop Their Skills
- Faculty Advisers for GSI Affairs: Roles and Responsibilities
- Mentoring Policy
- Campus Resources
- Teaching with GSIs in Large Enrollment Courses [335k PDF]
- 300-level courses, Fall 2007
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