The list below is a compilation of online teaching handbooks at U.Va. and other institutions. Some of the handbooks are general and others are department specific, and some are for teaching assitants and others are for faculty.
General
Teaching at the University of Virginia: A Handbook for Faculty and Teaching Assistants
Through Teaching at the University of Virginia: A Handbook for Faculty and Teaching Assistants, accomplished U.Va. professors and TAs share with you, both faculty members and graduate student teaching assistants, some of what they've learned from others and from their own fruitful—and less than fruitful—experiences.Teaching a Diverse Student Body
The suggestions in this handbook are meant to help faculty and teaching assistants recognize some broad ways in which students may differ from one another–and from each of us–and to examine what effect these differences may have on our students’ learning and our teaching.
French
Handbook for TAs - Required Courses Sequence (French 101, 102, 105, 201, 202, and 232)
Sociology
Handbook for Graduate Teaching Assistants
The purpose of this handbook is to provide a guide to the work of the teaching assistant (TA) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia. This handbook is primarily intended to provide orientation for the new TA, but should also serve as a handy reference for more experienced TAs.
Spanish, Italian, and Portugese
General
Teaching at Brown (PDF)
This booklet offers an introduction to the education of undergraduates at Brown, summarizes some of the research on learning, suggests some general qualities of good teaching applicable to all subjects, and details useful techniques for specific instructional situations (leading discussions, giving lectures, running labs, grading, and teaching in small groups). It addresses the diversity (learning, cultural, racial, economic, etc.) that teachers may encounter in the Brown classroom and offers a variety of suggestions for evaluating and improving your teaching.
General
Duquesne University International TA Handbook
Though it is designed for ITAs, this handbook contains information valuable to all TAs, especially to those new to the Duquesne community.
General
Instruction at FSU
This handbook has been designed to help those instructional faculty and graduate teaching assistants who are interested in being more effective teachers. It offers strategies used by experienced instructors and presents instructional methods and techniques following four components of Instructional Design: Course Planning, Lesson Delivery, Student Testing and Grading, and Course Revision and Evaluation.
General
A Handbook for Teaching Assistants (PDF)
This manual is packed full of suggestions, pedagogical models, and resources.
Chemistry
English
TA Handbook 2003 (PDF)
This handbook is meant as a guide for Teaching Assistants in the Department of English at Northwestern University. This handbook was written with the understanding that the Teaching Assistantship is a professional apprenticeship. Being a TA forms an integral part of the training that you receive in preparation for the Ph.D. From the Graduate Student's perspective, the Teaching Assistantship should be much more than merely a source of funding; from the Department's perspective, Teaching Assistants should be much more than a convenient (and in some sense, exploited) source of academic labor.
General
Teaching at Ohio State University: A Handbook
Teaching at Ohio State University: A Handbook for International Faculty and TAs
Women's Studies
Handbook for Graduate Teaching Associates (PDF)
This handbook contains specific information about how the Department is organized, office procedures, specific resources in women's studies, terms of appointment and other job-related information, as well as, practical tips on teaching including holding office hours, managing classroom disruptions, promoting group discussion.
Sociology
AI (Assistants in Instruction) Handbook (PDF)
This handbook is meant to help instructors as they face expectations. It might also help strengthen their own commitment to teaching and to their discipline, where, as a graduate student, they are on their way to becoming a professional.
Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology AI Manual
This AI (Assistants in Instruction) training manual is designed to address issues specific to teaching courses in Molecular Biology.
Computer Sciences
Teaching at Stanford: An Introductory Handbook for Faculty, Academic Staff/Teaching, and Teaching Assistants, Revised 1998, Edited by Michele Marincovich, Ph.D.
This handbook introduces instructors to some of your more important skills. Necessarily-because scientists, humanists, social scientists, and engineers will be reading this-the advice is a bit general. We urge you to uncover the necessary specifics for your field by talking to colleagues, reading on teaching in your subject, reflecting on your own experiences, and watching carefully those who already know how to teach your area well. We expect that you will find enough here, however, to get you started with confidence and a notion of what lies ahead.
Engineering
Electrical Engineering TA Handbook
Civil and Environmental Engineering TA Handbook
Linguistics
Physics
Teaching Physics at Stanford University
This site is designed to provide information and advice for your career as a teaching assistant in the Physics Department at Stanford, such as A) What you've signed up for, B) What about the course I'm teaching?, C) Stuff to do ahead of time, D) Some ideas about teaching, E) If you're a head TA, F) Helpful resources.
Statistics
Resources for Statistics TAs
This document provides a library of course handouts, teaching basics, and latex and html primers.
General
Teaching at Temple University
An extensive section on teaching effectively makes this TA handbook a valuable resource.
General
T.A. Cyber Handbook
Do you need advice or information on T.A.-related matters? The Center for Academic Excellence has surveyed and indexed the on-line Teaching Assistant Handbooks of twenty-two prominent universities. You may search our compilation by thirty-one different subject categories (for example, "Lab Sections" or "Diversity Issues") or by a keyword of your own choosing (for example, "gender," "discussion," "test," "section," or "problem.") Your search will yield both a list of T.A. Handbooks with the specific information you seek and the web addresses (URL's) of those handbooks.
For New Teachers
This page provides links and resources of special interest for people new to university teaching.
General
GTA Handbook (PDF)
The handbook is organized around three types of information: planning and teaching, campus resources, and university rules and procedures.
Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center
Here, you will find a variety of resources focused on helping you become a better instructor, such as creating ground rules for discussion sections, using group work in discussion sections, strategies for variety in the classroom, developing critical reading skills, how to teach lab sections, award-winning teaching ideas (teaching effectiveness award essays), theories of learning, dealing with and preventing academic dishonesty, grading students' written work, understanding & using instructional technology, five ways to improve your teaching, how to write a letter of recommendation, and FAQs.
General
International Teaching Assistant Handbook
UCSB has made available Shirley Ronkowski's International Teaching Assistant Handbook: An Introduction to University and College Teaching in the United States. Although directed primarily to ITAs, this source has much of value for all TAs.
General
TA Handbook 2004-2005 (PDF)
This handbook is designed to make your life as a teaching assistant easier. It has been compiled and written by teaching assistants who have worked "in the trenches" teaching undergraduates at UCLA. We have included tips and guidelines gleaned from our experience so that you can learn from our mistakes without having to make them yourself. The handbook also provides basic information about University policy as it relates to TAs and the teaching assistant job.
University of Colorado at Boulder
General
Graduate Teacher Program Handbook
The GTP handbook provides a plethora of articles on diverse topics like Academic Ethics and Gender Equity,Thoughts on Teaching and other relevant material for graduate students.The Tutor
The Tutor explores aspects of postsecondary teaching that are especially relevant to graduate students.
Gereral
Self-Help for Beginning Teachers
Advice regarding course planning, the classroom, assessing and improving, the job market, and more.
Essays on Teaching Exellence
These essays address the following topics: learning strategies, cooperative and collaborative, learning, critical thinking, teaching Philosophy, testing and grading, introductory courses/ general education, and technology.
General
TA Handbook 2004-2005
This handbook is designed to help TAs in their development as instructors. This handbook is intended as a working handbook. Read it selectively or completely, for the information, practical tips you need for your teaching now or in the future. Go back to it as questions arise or when you receive a new teaching assignment. Use the handbook as a basis for discussion with fellow TAs and faculty supervisors.
Online University Manuals for Graduate Teaching Assistants
A list of TA Handbooks online at other universities.
General
University of Florida Handbook for Teaching Assistants
An excellent section, drawn from a variety of resources, on the TA's role as a teacher.
Handbook for Graduate Teaching Assistants
This handbook gives general information about teaching in the undergraduate classroom at The University of Georgia and a list of teaching resources.
General
University of Iowa TA Handbook (PDF)
This handbook has good sections on "The Classroom," "The First Day," and "Teaching Responsibilities."
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
General
University of Massachusetts Amherst Handbook for Teaching Assistants
This handbook is especially valuable for its sections on the various roles that TAs must balance, and for its section on creating inclusive classrooms.
General
GSI Guidebook
This Guidebook is designed to help Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) during their first teaching experiences.
Lab Courses
Guidebook for Teaching Labs
This guidebook was written to help instructors as they begin teaching in a laboratory setting. At present, the guidebook includes sections on goals of laboratory classes, the roles of a lab GSI, preparing for and teaching a lab class, helping students work collaboratively, and grading.
General
A Handbook for Graduate Assistants (PDF)
The Handbook begins with sections that answer the general questions most graduate assistants will have early on in their appointment. After these introductory sections, an especially important segment of the Handbook is devoted to "Helpful Resources and Important Issues for All Graduate Assistants." The Handbook proceeds toward sections designed specifically for the particular assistantship roles of teaching assistant and research assistant. The "Case Studies" section, located near the back of the Handbook, offers scenarios in an effort to encourage ongoing reflection and discussion.
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
General
Teaching at Carolina
The Teaching at Carolina handbook is a reference work that instructors can consult when they have questions or want information on a specific aspect of teaching.Teaching for Inclusion
This is a handbook exploring diversity in the college classroom.
General
2003 Teaching Assistant Handbook
The TA Handbook is designed as a reference tool for you to use during your initial semesters of teaching.
General
The Teaching Assistant Experience
The teaching assistant and teaching fellow handbook for the University of Pittsburgh offers an indexed overview of teaching in a variety of classroom situations.
General
Teachers and Students Handbook
This handbook has been compiled to help professors at the University of Texas at Austin deal more effectively with the teaching portion of their work. The articles and handouts included in this handbook relate to many teaching issues that may be encountered as a professor.
General
Teaching Assistant Resources: Survival Guide Tips
Provides tips for TAs teaching a class, TAs leading discussions, TAs in the lab, readers/ graders, international TAs, and general TA survival.
General
Teaching and Learning at UW: A Handbook for TAs
This handbook includes nformation and resources for UW Teaching Assistants.
ISG Tutor/TA Handbook
The purpose of this handbook is to inform the new staff (tutors and TAs) how ISG functions as a team; however, experienced staff will also find the information useful. This handbook includes general information about resources, responsibilities, and expectations of ISG members.
Updated: 7/19/05
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