Issue Focus: AI in your Classroom  

"How might AI enhance students’ learning? How can I promote academic integrity?" This issue points you to key campus resources.

  • The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring's guide to Generative AI in Teaching offers guiding principles, upcoming events, and deep dives into exploring AI and planning to use AI in your course.
  • Do students in your class write? Writing Across the Curriculum offers AI-Generated Text: Considerations for AI in Teaching.

  Actions for Teaching with AI  

How can instructors use generative AI to support student learning? Some strategies are to:
  1. Try activities that explore the capabilities and limitations of AI
  2. If your class involves writing, integrate AI into the writing process
  3. Establish norms and boundaries for classroom AI use
Learn more in this article from the Instructional Design Collaborative.

  Grow your Teaching with Peer Observation  

What do you want to learn about your teaching? Partner with other TAs and LSAs to watch each other teach and share supportive feedback.

Enroll by Sept. 25 for this semester's Peer Observations Partners.
Learn More about POP

  TA Training Recap & Photos  

TAs from 60+ departments and programs attended the Fall New and Returning TA Trainings on Aug 29.

Attendees valued:
  • connecting with TAs outside their department in small group workshops
  • hearing experienced TAs talk about their teaching challenges and strategies
Learn more and see photos in our Fall 2024 TA Training Recap.
Recap & Photos
 

  Teaching Tips from Experienced TAs  

Teaching Mentors serve as facilitators at the annual L&S Fall TA Training event. Those selected to be Teaching Mentors have a proven track record of excellence as educators and a strong desire to mentor TAs.

This Week's Teaching Mentor:

Cameron Jones is a PhD Student in Statistics.

"Working in a Teaching Team" with Cameron Jones

"In my first semester as a TA, I taught alongside an experienced TA and a fellow first-timer, and leaning on them was what got me through it!  If you have an experienced TA on your team, don’t be afraid to ask them all your most honest questions. If you’re alongside a fellow first-timer, reflect on your experiences together, what worked and what didn’t. And finally, when you become the experienced TA, lend a helping hand; you might just find yourself learning something new too!"
 

McBurney's Instructor Guide to Student Accommodations

Visit McBurney's guide to learn more about student accommodations at UW. It can often be helpful to talk to your lead instructor if you have questions about a specific student.

Graduate Assistant Equity Workshops

The Graduate Assistants’ Equity Workshops are employee professional development sessions focusing on diversity, discrimination and harassment. TAs cannot be reappointed for more than one semester unless they have completed a workshop. Learn more, see the fall schedule, or register.
Graduate student teachers learn in small groups at the Fall 2024 L&S TA Training.
Learning Forward is brought to you by the L&S TA Training & Support Team.

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