Table of Contents Introduction PART 1: Rights and Responsibilities 1.1 Becoming a Teaching Assistant 1.2 Responsibilities as an Employee 1.3 Teaching Assistants' Rights Part 2: In the Classroom 2.1 Prior to the First Class 2.2 The First Class: Getting to Know Your Students 2.3 Leading a Seminar PART 3: Evaluating Your Students and Yourself 3.1 Evaluating Student Seminar Performance 3.2 Grading Essays, Papers and Exams 3.3 Evaluating Teaching Assistants PART 4: Teaching Assistant Training and Orientation Bibliography Teaching Assistant Statement of Rights Acknowledgements

Credits, Resource Materials and Bibliography

Allen, R. R. and Theodore Rueter. Teaching Assistant Strategies: An Introduction to College Teaching. Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1990.

Curzon, Anne. First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching. Anne Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Brooks, Ron et al. The Effective Teaching of History. London: Longman, 1993.

Hadwin, Allyson and Susan Wilcox. A Handbook for Teaching Assistants. Kingston: Instructional Development Centre Publications, Queen's University, 2001.
Available online at: www.queensu.ca/idc/idresources/index.html

Iacovetta, Franca and Molly Ladd Taylor.Becoming a Historian: A Canadian Manual for Women and Men. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 2000. Revised (2008)
Available online at http://www.cha-shc.ca/becoming%20a%20historian/

Janes, Joseph. Now What?: Readings on surviving (and even enjoying) your first experience at college teaching. 2nd ed. Acton, Mass: Copley Publishing Groups, 1988.

Naeth, M. Anne. Teaching Resource Manual for Graduate Teaching Assistants. 1991. University Teaching Services, University of Alberta, 215 Central Academic Building, Edmonton, AB, T6C 2G1. Parts of the work are available online at: www.ualberta.ca/~uts/ResourceMan/man.html

Piccinin, S., E. Mihu and A. Farquharson. "Teaching Assistants: An Unknown Resource," Canadian Journal of Higher Education, c. 1993.

Queen's University. Teaching Assistant Orientation Training Manual. Kingston: Queen's University Press, 1997.
Available online at: www.queensu.ca/idc/idresources/index.html

Ronkowski, Shirley. "TAs as Teachers." University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.
Available online at: id-www.ucsb.edu/ic/ta/hdbk/title.html

University of California at Berkeley, Graduate Division. Departmental Handbook for Graduate Student Instructor Training. Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, Office of Graduate Instructor Training. 94720. Phone (415)642-4456

University of Toronto. "Teaching Assistant Training Programme." University of Toronto
Website: www.utoronto.ca/tatp/resources.html

Ward, Paul L. Studying History: An Introduction to Method and Structure. 3rd ed. Washington: American Historical Association, 1985.

York University. Centre for Support Teaching. Teaching and Learning at York: A Guide for Teaching Assistants and Course Directors. 1989. Centre for the Support of Teaching. York University 4700 Keele Street, North York, ON, M3J 1P3.

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