Click HERE for the orientation schedule.

The members of the 2004 GTA Orientation Team:

• Yuliya Gorb   ;-)
• Dima Matsnev   ;-)
• Carl Mummert   ;-)


• Jo Battaglia
• Andrew Belmonte   ;-)
• James Sellers   ;-)

The following may be some useful links for new Graduate Teaching Assistants:

• Registrar's Course Page (Fall - mathematics)
• eLion Class Information


• "The Penn State Teacher II" (see also here)
• The Schreyer Institute (incorporates the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching).
• Penn State Policies (University Faculty Senate)
• Sample Academic Integrity Statements
• Math Instructor Manual
• Math Department Mentoring Handbook
• 2003 GTA Program website (last year's)
• GTA Technology Training
• The GTA Development Program


• Penn State Department of Mathematics homepage
• Penn State Undergraduate Math homepage

Here are the slides from the GTA Program, most in Microsoft PowerPoint  format.

• Overview of Teaching at Penn State
• Class Administration (also in PDF)
• Strategies for Teaching
• The GTA Development Program
• Ideas for International TAs
• Evaluation and Assessment
• Policies and Issues

Paul Burtny	Jiang Chen	Jiangtao Duan	Arseni Egorov
Yang Fang	Andriy Gogolyev	Steven Hair	Elizabeth Hart
Andrew Ho	Yong Hu	Ming-Hsuang Kang	Jonas Kibelbek
Kagan Kursungoz	Manlin Li	Uuye Otgonbayar	James Patek
Daniele Signori	John Skukalek	Vivek Srikrishnan	Peng Sun
Yiqiang Wang	David Weaver	Jiangwei Xue	Devren Yener
	Lei Zhang	Nikita Zinovyev