"The Teaching Assistant's Guide is a terrific step by step guidebook to help set you up for success. I wish I had this resource when I was starting out!"
-Shannon Odell Ph.D., Neuroscientist and Science Communicator
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2024
The Teaching Assistant's Guide:
Essential Skills for College Lectures and Labs
The Teaching Assistant's Guide provides practical advice, recommendations from experienced TAs, and insights from education research–all with the goal of making your first teaching experience rewarding and efficient.
The Teaching Assistant's Guide includes:
Advice to make sure your first class goes smoothly
Worksheets to help you prepare to teach
Proven strategies that increase student participation
Ways to ensure all students feel welcome
Tips to make grading fast and fair
Written and illustrated by professor and New Yorker cartoonist, Ed Himelblau