<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Abigail--</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All of the graduate students at Penn State begin by teaching first-year composition, and with that comes a two-semester teaching practicum.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We also have a practicum for online teaching.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our students have 3-4 semesters of teacher training (or more) before they hit the job market.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stuart</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Stuart A. Selber<br class="">Associate Professor of English<br class="">Director of Digital Education</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Director of The Penn State Digital English Studio<br class="">Department of English<br class="">Penn State University<br class="">University Park, PA 16802<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:selber@psu.edu" class="">selber@psu.edu</a><br class="">http://sites.psu.edu/selber</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://www.des.psu.edu" class="">http://www.des.psu.edu</a><br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">814-863-8032<br class="">814-863-7285 (fax)</div><div> <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 8, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Bakke, Abigail R <<a href="mailto:abigail.bakke@mnsu.edu" class="">abigail.bakke@mnsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi all,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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?<br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">What about teaching online - what additional qualifications/requirements are in place for TAs to teach courses online?</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thanks for your help.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; 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