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This summer I worked with @searlelearning as a training developer/facilitator for workshop leaders of the Graduate TA conference here @NorthwesternU. I'm also leading a workshop @ the conference today. Here's my perspective, & why I'm feeling that #TADisorientation hard....(1/7)
TAs are 
underresourced & underprepared. We are thrown into TAing on top of our own coursework & research, constantly forced to choose between the 2— and SPOILER, the academic capitalism we've created seems to reward output-driven research over process-driven pedagogy. (2/7)
underresourced & underprepared. We are thrown into TAing on top of our own coursework & research, constantly forced to choose between the 2— and SPOILER, the academic capitalism we've created seems to reward output-driven research over process-driven pedagogy. (2/7)
As a result, many of us have 
structural pedagogical training in our departments. No class on how to teach. No faculty observations. No department-led training. So what do many of us do? We create our own peer-led training/support programs. @ScreenCultures did. (3/7)
structural pedagogical training in our departments. No class on how to teach. No faculty observations. No department-led training. So what do many of us do? We create our own peer-led training/support programs. @ScreenCultures did. (3/7)
We also jump at the opportunities that do exist (like this conference). I want to give a big 
to my fellow workshop leaders today. We're out here training folks on anti-oppressive practices, universal design, active learning strategies, drafting learning objectives... (4/7)
to my fellow workshop leaders today. We're out here training folks on anti-oppressive practices, universal design, active learning strategies, drafting learning objectives... (4/7)
integrating tech for collaborative learning, creating rubrics, & hear this, setting EXPECTATIONS & BOUNDARIES with profs day 1. We are giving voice to the tendency of exploitation baked into these positions. So to faculty/admin, I say... (5/7)
WE are at the frontlines of your classrooms; we're implementing, improving, and even rescuing your pedagogy; we're handling student crises & responding to their immediate needs; we're organizing and training ourselves; we're teaching YOU how to use Canvas, Zoom, & Padlet. (6/7)
See this work. Bring us in. Learn from us. Support us. Materially. Contractually. Financially. Institutionalize new spaces for TA training. Provide funded year-long positions for grad TA organizers within your department. Anything less is just a perpetuation of the problem (7/7)
