PSU Math Department GTA Training 2005

A Welcome Lunch for all new graduate students will be held in 114 McAllister (the 'Synergistic Room') on Thursday August 25th at 12 noon.   All newly arrived graduate students should attend.

Welcome to the home page of the Penn State Math Department's Graduate Teaching Assistant Training for the fall semester 2005.  Training will take place on Tuesdays at 1 pm in room 106, McAllister Building, beginning Tuesday August 30th.  Click here to see the timetable for the training program.

The Mathematics Department normally requires all newly-arrived Teaching Assistants to participate in all sessions of the Training Program.  TAs who will spend their first year in the English Language Proficiency program may be exempted, but are required instead to participate in the GTA Training Program at the beginning of their second year. Attendance will be taken.

Here are the slides from the training program and other useful background information. Many of these are in Microsoft Power Point format.

• Why GTA Development?
• Introduction to Teaching at PSU (James Sellers)
• Policies and Issues (John Roe)
• Class Administration (Yuliya Gorb)
• Strategies for Teaching
• Evaluation and Assessment
• The First Day of Class
• GTA Technology Training Information
• Overview of the GTA training and oversight process
• Summary of Policies and Issues Links

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

• The Schreyer Institute (incorporates the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching).
• Registrar's Course Page
• eLion Class Information
• Penn State Policies (University Faculty Senate)
• Sample Academic Integrity Statements
• Math Instructor Manual
• Math Department Mentoring Handbook
• 2001 Training Program
• Penn State Math Department
• Math Undergraduate Homepage
• GTA Computer Training
• Useful Policies and Issues Links

Here are photographs of (some of) the program participants:

Lynn Vandemeulebroeke

Gordana Stojanovic

Nana Wang

Yuliya Gorb

Tyrone Crisp

Sergei Orshanskiy

Xiaotian Zhu

Xiao Chen

Shishoo Fu

Yanxiang Zhao

Huan Sun

Thinh Le

Melchior Grutzmann

Van Cyr

Vaughn Climenhaga

Dmitry Scheglov

Vitaliy Gyrya

Rufus Willett

Bram Mesland

This page brought to you by the members of the 2005 GTA Training Team:

• John Ethier
• Yuliya Gorb
• John Roe
• James Sellers
• Lynn Vandemeulebroeke