Enjoy Teaching?  Good at it?

Become a TA Trainer!

Every year the Center for Teaching and Learning asks experienced TAs to apply to help train new TAs.  The Center needs students in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to lead new TAs in workshops such as:

• Grading in the Humanities and Qualitative Social Sciences
• Grading in the Quantitative Social & Natural Sciences
• Leading Discussions
• Teaching Recitations in the Sciences and Quantitative Social Sciences
• Being an Effective Lab TA

Trainers will prepare to train other TAs by participating in several day-long workshops.  Applicants should expect to be available for two days in May and must be available during the entire week of August 31-September 4.  They will receive a $1,400 stipend.

Here is a copy of the 2009 application.

Applications (which should include the applicant's CV) are due the first Friday in March (March 6, 2009).  You may send completed applications electronically to Emma Aronson at emmala@sas.upenn.edu or you may send a hard copy to the Center for Teaching and Learning, 3619 Locust Walk.

For more information about the application process, contact Emma Aronson at emmala@sas.upenn.edu or Nicole Myers Turner at turnern@sas.upenn.edu.

If you have questions about TA training contact Bruce Lenthall at 215.898.4170 or lenthall@sas.upenn.edu.