[ATTW-L] ATTW-L Digest, Vol 25, Issue 21
Lawrence, Halcyon M.
hlawrence at towson.edu
Thu Apr 9 16:03:43 UTC 2020
Have you been seeing these responses to Grad student training to teach tech com?
Halcyon M. Lawrence, PhD
Assistant Professor of Technical Communication
Department of English | LA 5339
Towson University
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Grad teaching assistants and tech comm service courses
(Bay, Jennifer L)
2. Re: Grad teaching assistants and tech comm service courses
(Lisa Melon?on)
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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 13:42:41 +0000
From: "Bay, Jennifer L" <jbay at purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: [ATTW-L] Grad teaching assistants and tech comm service
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Hi Abigail,
Purdue?s TA training is very similar to Penn State?s?a year-long practicum for first-year writing, then a semester long practicum focused on teaching our service course in business writing. Although we do not have official practica for teaching online or technical writing, we have been offering an online teaching ?boot-camp? for our instructors in May before they teach online (almost all of our summer offerings are online), as well as informal training for teaching technical writing. We have a strong secondary area for our PhD students in Professional and Technical Writing, so they are also supported by that advanced coursework.
TAs can customize their courses as they progress through the program as long as they meet course outcomes, and we also maintain an internal, crowd-sourced repository of syllabi, assignments and class activities.
Hope this helps!
Best,
Jenny
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Dr. Jennifer Bay
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Director of Professional Writing
Purdue University
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From: ATTW-L <attw-l-bounces at attw.org> on behalf of Stuart Selber <selber at psu.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 9:02 AM
To: "Bakke, Abigail R" <abigail.bakke at mnsu.edu>
Cc: "attw-l at attw.org" <attw-l at attw.org>
Subject: Re: [ATTW-L] Grad teaching assistants and tech comm service courses
Hi Abigail--
All of the graduate students at Penn State begin by teaching first-year composition, and with that comes a two-semester teaching practicum.
After they have completed this requirement they can then teach our service course in technical communication, which comes with a one-semeter teaching practicum. If they want to also teach business writing they take a practicum for that course too. The practicum meets weekly, and the students use a common syllabus, assignments, etc. They can customize their own version of the service course down the road.
We also have a practicum for online teaching.
Our students have 3-4 semesters of teacher training (or more) before they hit the job market.
Stuart
Stuart A. Selber
Associate Professor of English
Director of Digital Education
Director of The Penn State Digital English Studio
Department of English
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On Apr 8, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Bakke, Abigail R <abigail.bakke at mnsu.edu<mailto:abigail.bakke at mnsu.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm working on a proposal for training tech comm grad students to teach our tech comm service courses. As part of that process, I want to get a sense of how other programs handle this.
If your program offers TAships to tech comm master's and/or PhD students, what are the qualifications or requirements for those grad students to teach tech comm? For instance, must they teach first-year comp first?
What about teaching online - what additional qualifications/requirements are in place for TAs to teach courses online?
Thanks for your help.
Abi
Abigail Bakke, PhD
Assistant Professor, Technical Communication
Department of English
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Armstrong 307H
(507) 389-1035
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From: Lisa Melon?on <meloncon.research at gmail.com>
To: "Bakke, Abigail R" <abigail.bakke at mnsu.edu>
Cc: "attw-l at attw.org" <attw-l at attw.org>
Subject: Re: [ATTW-L] Grad teaching assistants and tech comm service
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Abi -
Here's what I can tell you from a field wide-perspective.
Of the 34 schools where you can specialize in TPC for the PhD, all require
a composition practicum course and about 1/3 require a TPC practicum
course.
At the MA/MS level, things get a little more confusing since the vast
majority (around ~70%) of the ~110 schools that offer a master's degree do
so as a professional degree so they do not have TA lines. Of these schools,
only 2% require a teaching course, while 22% have it on the books as an
elective. These are often a practicum in composition. (Note: in the ten
years from when I first gathered data to currently when I updating and
verifying it, this particular statistic has not changed.)
When it comes to the online component, over the last 5 years most
institutions (from near as I can gather from those offerings a TPC degree
of some kind), around ~60%, require some sort of
institutional "certification" that while not teaching you to teach online
at least makes sure you know the LMS and the minimum things to start
thinking about course structure online.
If you want more detailed information, such as alignment with other
institutions like yours, just email off list, and I'll parse the data
differently and provide more specific details about the courses and
structure.
Hope everyone has a great day,
Lisa
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:15 PM Bakke, Abigail R <abigail.bakke at mnsu.edu>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a proposal for training tech comm grad students to teach
> our tech comm service courses. As part of that process, I want to get a
> sense of how other programs handle this.
>
> If your program offers TAships to tech comm master's and/or PhD students,
> what are the qualifications or requirements for those grad students to
> teach tech comm? For instance, must they teach first-year comp first?
>
> What about teaching online - what additional qualifications/requirements
> are in place for TAs to teach courses online?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Abi
>
> Abigail Bakke, PhD
>
>
> Assistant Professor, Technical Communication
>
> Department of English
>
> Minnesota State University, Mankato
>
> Armstrong 307H
>
> (507) 389-1035
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