2007 Ohio
University
New Teaching Assistant Orientation
Center for
Teaching
and Learning and
the Office of Graduate Studies
Baker
University
Center Ballroom A
Day One Program- Tuesday, August 28,
2007
Introduction
to Ohio University: An Orientation
Session for All Teaching Assistants
8:45
AM
Registration
9:00
Welcomes:
Dr. Katie
Tadlock Interim Associate Provost for
Graduate Studies,
Dr. David
Descutner, Interim
Executive Vice Provost & Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies
Tim Vickers,
Assistant
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
9:15 – 10:00
Overview
of Orientation, Teaching Assistant Handbook, and other University
Resources and
Services for Teaching Assistants
Tim Vickers,
Assistant
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
10:00
–
10:35
Critical
Issues In and Out of the OHIO Classroom
Dr. Katherine
Ziff, Interim Executive
Assistant to the Provost for Institutional
Equity,
Jennifer
DeForest, Director of Disability
Services and Assistant
Director, Office
of Institutional Equity
10:35
–
10:45
Break
10:45
–
11:15
Academic
Integrity & Plagiarism
Mac Stricklen, Associate Director,
University Judiciaries
11:15
–
11:45
FERPA
Overview (The
Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and amendments)
Patrick
Beatty, Associate Director,
University Registrar
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11:50 - 12:50
Light
Lunch- Baker
Center
Ballroom
(Questions &Concerns, meet other TAs,
etc.)
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1:00-1:45
Class
of 2011
Judith
Piercy, Assistant VP for Student
Affairs & Director
of Residence Life and Off-Campus
Living
1:45 -2:45
Panel
Discussion: Questions, Concerns
& Hopes about being a TA at OHIO
Distinguished
Faculty and Teaching Assistants from across the University Campus
2:50
Closing
Remarks and Overview of Thursday's Programs and Beyond
Tim Vickers,
Assistant
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
A
Special
Orientation Session for International Teaching Assistants
Baker
Center Ballroom
B
3:00
–
3:10 PM Welcomes:
Dr. Katie
Tadlock Interim Associate Provost for
Graduate
Studies,
Tim Vickers,
Assistant
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
3:10 – 4:30
Basic
Issues for International Teaching Assistants:
Dawn Bikowski Director of Academic Oral
Communication
Programs
Theresa Kolk, Department of Linguistics
4:30 – 5:15
Virtual
Orientation to the OHIO Campus for International Teaching Assistants
Day Two Program-
Thursday, August 30, 2007
New
Teaching
Assistant Orientation: Follow-up
Programs
Baker University
Center, Rooms 240 and 242
A
series of 3 seventy-minute programs will be available from 2 p.m. to 5
p.m. Teaching Assistants are free
to attend as many, or as few, programs, in any sequence they like. For those unable to attend a session,
and where there is sufficient interest, programs will be repeated at a
later
date in the Fall, and possibly Winter quarter, as well.
Program
details will be provided at TuesdayÕs orientation, and may be
found online,
along with other useful resources for Teaching Assistants, at the
Center for
Teaching And LearningÕs web site at:
www.ohiou.edu/teacher/
Grading/Assessment:
Providing Feedback to Help Students Learn
Facilitators:
Kelly
Roberts, Doctoral
Candidate
in Counseling and Higher Education
Teaching
101-Getting
Started in the Classroom:
The
First
Day, Week & Beyond
Facilitator:
Tim
Vickers,
Associate Director,
Center for Teaching and Learning