Category: TA Training and Graduate TA Training Consultants

Supporting our International Graduate Students in Their Teaching Roles

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With increasing global mobility, international teaching assistants (ITA) are now a major part of the workforce in higher education institutes in the U.S. In 2020 National Science Foundation reported that 29% of science and engineering faculty were ‘foreign born’ and this same demographic received 6 out of 10 doctoral degrees in engineering, math and computer… Continue Reading Supporting our International Graduate Students in Their Teaching Roles

Becoming Teachers: Engineering graduate students reflect on their diverse professional journeys at Cornell

Doğa Yücalan, Jason Chang, Colleen Lawlor and Thais Campos de Almeida on

Prologue Teaching is a calling. It’s a calling that can be awakened at different points in one’s experience. But once awakened; evidence-based teaching practices must be cultivated. Part art and mostly science, the research that informs the best teaching practices is as wide and diverse as any. When a passion for teaching finds itself lodged… Continue Reading Becoming Teachers: Engineering graduate students reflect on their diverse professional journeys at Cornell

Intrepid TA Development Consultants are Certain to be Needed in Uncertain Times

Celia Ann Evans on

in·trep·id      /inˈtrepəd/     adjective fearless; adventurous. (Origin:  late 17th century: from French intrépide or Latin intrepidus, from in- ‘not’ + trepidus ‘alarmed’. Source: Online Oxford dictionary) ELI TA Development Consultants are Cornell Engineering’s academic leaders of the future. Always intrepid, they are passionate about the craft of teaching and excited to become leaders and peer educators to improve teaching… Continue Reading Intrepid TA Development Consultants are Certain to be Needed in Uncertain Times