[ATTW-L] Grad teaching assistants and tech comm service courses

[Stuart Selber]

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
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802

selber at psu.edu
http://sites.psu.edu/selber
http://www.des.psu.edu

814-863-8032
814-863-7285 (fax)
 
> On Apr 8, 2020, at 1:09 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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