Research Guides: Graduate Student Services: Teaching

How the Library Can Help Teaching Assistants

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- Consult with a librarian to enrich your course with library materials or activities.

- Schedule subject-specific library instruction session lead by a UHM librarian.

- Refer your students to our online subject guides to get a better understanding on what is available in the library for their topic of interest.

- Place supplemental readings on reserve.

- Use our audiovisual collection or streaming video resource to show a video in class or place media on reserve for your students.

- Direct your students to Sinclair Library's Student Success Center for extra help with homework and library research.

UHM Campus Resources

Center for Teaching Excellence
Check the CTE event calendar for TA workshops and lectures.
Assessment Office
Get help designing evaluation or assessment tools for your classes.
Graduate Division Policies for Teaching Assistants
Official policies for graduate and teaching assistants from the Graduate Division.

Selected Books for Teaching Assistants

Classroom Assessment Techniques by Thomas A. Angelo; K. Patricia Cross
Call Number: LB2822 .75 .A54 1993
ISBN: 1555425003
A Handbook for Teachers in Universities and Colleges : A Guide to Improving Teaching Methods by Robert Cannon & David Newble
Call Number: LB2331 .N43 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis
Call Number: LB2331 .D37 1993
Publication Date: 1993
The Art of College Teaching : 28 Takes by Marilyn Kallet and April Morgan
Call Number: LB2331 .A649 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Teaching What You Don't Know by Therese Huston Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now you're lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. You've taught Kant for twenty years, but now you're team-teaching a new course on âeoeEthics and the Internet.âe#157; The personality theorist retired and wasn't replaced, so now you, the neuroscientist, have to teach the "Sexual Identity" course. Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they don't know very well. The challenges are even greater when students don't share your cultural background, lifestyle, or assumptions about how to behave in a classroom. In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. How can you prepare most efficiently for a new course in a new area? How do you look credible? And what do you do when you don't have a clue how to answer a question? Encouraging faculty to think of themselves as learners rather than as experts, Therese Huston points out that authority in the classroom doesn't come only, or even mostly, from perfect knowledge. She offers tips for introducing new topics in a lively style, for gauging students' understanding, for reaching unresponsive students, for maintaining discussions when they seem to stop dead, and -yes- for dealing with those impossible questions. Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you don't know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. It's an adventure.
Call Number: LB2331 .H875 2009
ISBN: 9780674035805
Publication Date: 2009

Selected Electronic Resources for Teaching Assistants

Teaching at College and University: Effective Strategies and Key Principles by Sarah Moore, Gary Walsh and Angélica Rísquez
Call Number: Electronic Format
Publication Date: 2007

The following resources are licensed for UH use only. The links below will take you to the Voyager Catalog record for this material. From there, click on the link in the Holdings Information section in the record entitled "Access for UHM students, faculty and staff" (see below).

This link should lead you to an authentication page where you can access the material by logging-in with your UH username and password.

The Joy of Teaching by Peter G. Filene; Ken Bain (Foreword by)
Call Number: Electronic Format
Publication Date: 2005
Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses.