Teaching Tips and Techniques
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Documents
These documents contain tips for teaching. CTD has developed these documents based on questions and comments from other UCSD teaching assistants. If you have a suggestion or would like to see a certain topic dealt with, please don't hesitate to contact CTD. More documents are added all the time, so check back often.
- TA Training Competencies (Word) (PDF)
- The First Day of Class
- Types of Questions to Ask Your Students
- Alternative Participation Formats
- Tips for TAs
- Guidelines for Preparing Teaching Portfolios
Video Situations
These videos present common teaching situations and are intended to serve as triggers for discussion. After viewing these videos, we encourage you to share your thoughts about these situations (or suggest other situations we might want to include in future videos).
Please note that to view these videos you must have the RealOne Player installed. If you don't already have the RealOne Player, click here to download it for free.
- One Student Does
All the Talking [1.15 MB]
- Students Arrive Late [1.03 MB]
- Talking in
the Back of the Room [0.52 MB]
- Hard Grader?
[0.49 MB]
- Student are Rude
to Each Other [0.35 MB]
- Small Groups
Not Working [1.01 MB]
- Wanting
To Be Liked [5.09 MB] (Slower
Connection [0.71 MB])
- Classroom Management [2.92 MB] (Slower Connection [0.40 MB])
| Video Credits | |
Actors: |
Sarah Kirk, Vicki Groeling, Theodore Schneider, Timothy Ritchey, Martha Stacklin, David Shirk, Victoria Floriani, Tim Groeling |
Writers: |
Tim Groeling, Laurie Chamberlain |
Production, Editing, Direction: |
Tim Groeling |
Special Technical Assistance: |
Theodore Schneider |
Special Thanks: |
Rosalind Streichler and Barbara Mauro |
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