by Jasmine Underwood It is a weird paradox to be a PhD student and a teaching assistant; the learner and the semi-professional. We are supposed to draw on our advanced standing to teach students, but we ourselves can be plagued with imposter syndrome and feelings of inadequacy. I was asked to be a WIP TA…
by Greg Mitchell Ellison Many teachers (including good ones), in my observation, express cynical views of their students, or of the various difficulties of teaching. It’s a perfectly natural reaction to the alienating modes of engagement necessitated by the state of modern higher education; increasing class sizes mean less personal interaction with students, online teaching…
by Valerie McLaurin Over the past semester as a WIP TA I’ve truly enjoyed immersing myself in the pedagogy of the program. The training has opened my mind to many simple but revelatory approaches to responding to student writing. In the past, as a TA for large intro level history courses, I sometimes gave into…
by Freddy Saia Unlike many of the WIP teaching assistants who have posted thus far this semester, I will not be TAing for a Writing Intensive Program class until Spring 2022. I have, though, been instructor of record for some number of Precalculus and Calculus I sections since Fall 2018 as part of my graduate…