Linguistics TA Manual

"I think one [reason it's hard to generalize about TAing in Linguistics] is that the classes are very varied, and so whoever you draw to be TA for is going to make very different kinds of requests." - A Faculty member on 'What is a TA's job?'


For TAs
Your job	Handling the professor, your finances, and your time
Your Ancestry	A list of who's TAed what in past years
Support	Contact people for help in life & teaching
Logistics	All the administrative stuff that seems trivial until you have to figure out how to do it
How to teach	Online tips about teaching
How to teach better	Evaluating your teaching & evaluating your evaluations
Courses: Materials and Methods	All the commonly TAed courses in our department, with handouts, tips, lecture notes
Pedagogical resources	TAing advice, here and away
Policies & Schedules	Stanford University lays down the law
For International TAs	The American Undergraduate Classroom demystified
For Undergraduates	Your students might ask you for help with life in general - here's where to point them
On Teaching Portfolios	Information on preparing a teaching portfolio in linguistics
TA Awards	About University TA Awards and past recipients

For the Corpus TA
Your job	A corpus TA job description - formal and informal
Your Ancestry	Previous Corpus TAs

For the Mentor TA
Your job	A mentor TA job description - formal and informal
Your Ancestry	Previous Mentor TAs
TA Training Course	Help with designing the course
Support in the Department	Turns out, professors here know a lot about teaching
Support at CTL	About Marcelo, our friend and contact at CTL

For the Subject Pool TA
Your job	A Subject Pool TA job description - formal and informal
Your Ancestry	Previous Subject Pool TAs

For the Experimental Lab CA
Your job	An Experimental Lab CA job description - formal and informal
Your Ancestry	Previous Experimental Lab CAs

For the WIM CA
Your job	A WIM CA job description - formal and informal
Your Ancestry	Previous WIM CAs
Resources	Resources for the WIM CA

This work was funded by a seed grant from the Center for Teaching and Learning (Stanford University).

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Last modified June 18, 2008