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Faculty of Engineering and Design GTA/TA Training Course

Course Overview

This 6 hour training course is intended to help prepare those employed in teaching support roles (such as GTAs, TAs, and markers) at the Faculty of Engineering and Design for their duties and responsibilities. While there are a wide variety of duties, roles and responsibilities depending on the course and context you are employed in, this course covers the most common aspects of teaching support you will likely be involved in. 

It consists of 2 parts: this online course (3 hours) and an in-person workshop (3 hours). They are designed to work together and you must complete both parts.

  • The online course includes compulsory material and activities to prepare you for the in-person session. It also contains additional information that you can refer back to as a resource during the course of your teaching semester.
  • The in-person workshop is interactive and gives you the opportunity to work with your peers and colleagues to put what you have learned in the online course into practice.

For more information about how this course works, see Getting Started. For information on the online course and in-person workshop, as well as a summary of the compulsory activities, see the Course Map in Getting Started.

 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this 6-hour programme, you should be able to: 

  1. Recognise and describe the expectations, parameters and responsibilities of GTAs/TAs in the Faculty of Engineering and Design. 
  2. Outline and demonstrate key principles of good practice in the main teaching duties of GTAs/TAs.  
  3. Communicate and facilitate learning activities effectively to support inclusive learning in teaching sessions. 
  4. Demonstrate the application of relevant learning theories effectively in training scenarios and in providing feedback. 
  5. Define and demonstrate an understanding of Te Ao Māori principles in teaching in interactions with students by treating them respectfully, ethically and honestly. 
  6. Understand the purpose and practices of assessment, marking, moderation, and formative feedback and be able to apply them to support student learning when teaching and marking in lab and tutorial learning contexts.

Acknowledgements

For a full list of contributors, please see Acknowledgements.

 

Copyright

The content and delivery of content in this course are protected by copyright. Material belonging to others may have been used in this course and copied by and solely for the educational purposes of the University under license.

You may copy the course content for the purposes of private study or research, but you may not upload onto any third party site, make a further copy or sell, alter or further reproduce or distribute any part of the course content to another person.

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