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