Work-in-progress: unpacking Graduate Teaching Assistants' (GTAs) taught practice - exploring training through decisional capital
Author(s)
Chadha, D
Shah, UV
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
High quality teaching in chemical engineering is often supported by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) who have always been at the forefront of this endeavour. They often contribute to lectures, labs, academic tutorials and more occasionally get involved with assessment, feedback and learning design. Therefore, it is important that we understand how GTAs can develop their practice as professional educators - for the time they are employed in these roles and better support them. Decisional capital is a useful lens through which to appreciate the mechanisms that help GTAs make decisions and choices about their teaching. As such, GTAs were invited to complete online surveys in which they were asked questions about their levels of experience, training, and motivation to provide us with insights on how they developed their taught practice. Furthermore, a few GTAs contributed further insights. From an ongoing analysis of our findings, we are in the preliminary stages of developing appropriate support mechanisms for our GTAs which build on aspects of decisional capital, namely mentoring and evaluation. In this paper we start identifying what meaningful mentoring, and deep-rooted and critical evaluation consist of.
Date Issued
2023-06-25
Date Acceptance
2023-06-01
Citation
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings, 2023
Publisher
American Society for Engineering Education
Journal / Book Title
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings
Copyright Statement
© 2023 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference.
Source
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2023-06-25
Finish Date
2023-06-28
Coverage Spatial
Baltimore , Maryland, US