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MENTORING
Mentoring provides one-on-one interaction for faculty and TAs wishing to develop their skills and learn from more experienced practitioners. There are many programs for teacher mentoring throughout the university. For the latest programs, go to the FTAD web site.
TAs
Preparing Future Faculty (PFF)
Since 1996, the Graduate School has offered the Preparing Future Faculty Program, a collaborative program between The Ohio State University and leading liberal arts colleges and universities in Ohio designed to broaden the academic and professional horizon of Ohio State Ph.D. students. Specifically, the program offers an opportunity for approximately 40 Ohio State graduate students each year to experience first-hand the unique challenges and rewards of an academic career at liberal arts colleges through a partner relationship with a mentor-faculty member at PFF’s host institutions. This mentoring program is intended to prepare our graduate students for the challenges of the evolving professoriate, which increasingly includes greater emphasis on teaching and service in addition to the research role of university faculty. This program provides a capstone experience in its participants’ path toward becoming professors in ways that go beyond the traditional graduate experience.Graduate TA Fellows
The Graduate TA Fellows Program is professional learning community for senior graduate students who are nominated by their departments. Selected Graduate Teaching Fellows will participate in a comprehensive summer seminar, meeting twice per week during second summer session to study important aspects of teaching and teaching support at the university level and examining models for departmental GTA preparation and support programs. They will then meet once per month throughout the academic year to share ideas and assist with each others' project planning.Graduate Teaching Fellows assist with departmental preparation and ongoing support of new GTAs. While they may participate in their departments’ pre-academic year teaching orientation and help GTAs get off to a good start, the central thrust of these programs will be to provide on-going systematic teaching support throughout the academic year. Teaching Fellows may observe and videotape GTAs, provide constructive feedback, share instructional strategies, or develop and present seminars and workshops. According to the needs of their individual departments, they will help design, modify, and implement the project proposals submitted by department chairs and faculty mentors with the program application.
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