The filing cabinet labeled TA Resources, located in the Department Reading Room, has printed copies of some of these articles, TA Handbooks, and other materials.
You can add to the files. Copies of your reading lists, information about videos you have used, descriptions of class projects that worked, and other information can help other TAs.
Websites with Useful Tips
Active Learning
Weblinks at the University of Michigan Teaching Excellence Website
What affects class attendance?
Findings of a study carried out at the University of Kansas
TA Handbooks from other Universities
Each handbook has particular strengths; see the annotations
University of Florida: Teaching Sociology Resource Library
Some of this is specific to Florida, but see the books on Books and Course Packs, Films, Exams, and FAQs. Graduate students wrote these sections.
[If the link does not work, search using Florida sociology TA]
Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maine
Many links; organized by topic and annotated
Yale University, "Becoming Teachers"
PDF document. Chapters on teaching basics, improving your teaching, teaching portfolios, grading (includes when students challenge your grade), active and experiential learning, etc.
Resources at Rutgers
Teaching Excellence Center
Links to equipment request form, information about using a smart classroom, information about WebCt, and information about having a class video-taped.
Graduate School TA Project
Rutgers' TA Handbook, Mid-term Evaluations, Phone Directory
Rutgers Writing Program
This material is designed for a beginning writing course, but some of it is useful in any course.
Handouts you can use. Examples: plagiarism policy, proofreading guide, citation guide.
Things that work. Examples: getting students actively involved, clarifying goals, knowing your students and using office hours, writing comments, presenting grades.
Syllabus Checklist
A list of items that should usually be included on any syllabus.
How to get things done in Sociology
Scheduling a classroom; changing a classroom
See Jeannie Danner
All issues involving undergraduates
See Jeannie Danner
Keys, xerox and phone payments
See Tamara Crawford
Instructional Supplies
See any staff member BUT give advance notice
Parking letters/tuition remission/all graduate issues
See Dianne Yarnell
Teaching related questions/problems
See the Head TA, Tom Degloma
Media equipment in the Department
See Shan Harewood
How to get things done at Rutgers
Book a video
Book media equipment
Schedule media equipment
Equipment not there, and its time to start the class? call 732-445-4685
Guide to putting readings on electronic reserve
Kilmer now has a scanner, and material goes on reserve within a day or so. Kilmer reserves: 732-445-3613
Schedule a class in an IML (student computer lab)
Each IML manager has his own policies re when to request reservations, etc.
Bookstore Orders
Livingston Bookstore web orders. Password 849
Douglass 932.9017 CAC 246.8448
New Jersey Books 732.828.7401 njbooks@bellatlantic.net
Classroom problems (e.g., temperature)
CAC 732-932-8150
Busch/Livingston 732-445-3740
Cook/Douglass 732-932-9456/9768
You are right; the thermostats in many classrooms do NOT control the temperature.
Other Useful Information
Data
Humanities and Social Science Data Center
Books on Teaching College Courses
Richard Light, Making the Most of College, Harvard Univ. Press. The TA filing cabinet in the Reading Room has copies of Chapter 4, "The Most Effective Classes." If you take the last copy, please tell Diane Yarnell.
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