Tools for Teaching Associates
Here is information and tools for those who are currently teaching associates here at Ohio University.
791 Options for Spring 2008
Here is a printable version of the 791 options.
Remember that you need 6 total hours of 791 this term. You will need to email your respective Assistant Comp Director where required to let them know which hours you completed.
Required 791 hours:
- (1) hour for the informational meeting
Optional sessions (You must choose at least 5 hours from the following):
- (1) possible hour for attending a session on teaching summer courses. You can earn credit for being a presenter or for attending one or both hours. This session will be held on Fri. 4/18 from 11:00-12:00 in Ellis 111.
- (1-2) hours for attending a session on adjuncting and life after being a TA. This session will be held on Friday, May 2nd, from 10:00-12:00 in Ellis 111.
- (2) possible hours for attending a workshop with Drs. Ayesha Hardison and Liz Miller on creating a CV. This session will be held Friday, May 9th, from 10-12 in Ellis 111.
- (2) hours for attending a workshop on teaching in the computer classrooms and the Ellis computer labs (Ellis 18, 19, and 20). This session, called, “Why Would I Want to Teach with Computers?” will be held on Friday, May 16th, in Ellis 20, from 10-12, and will be conducted by TAs who have taught in the computer classroom. This session will be a sharing, Q&A-style workshop.
- (1-2) possible hours for meeting with your mentoring group (1 hour per meeting). Please email Todd or Megan one paragraph describing what you discussed during your meeting.
- (1-2) possible hours for observing other TAs or for being observed. Please e-mail Todd or Megan one paragraph with the name of the person you observed, the date, and what you gained from the observation.
- Up to (6) possible hours for participating in a 791 reading group. There will be two reading group this quarter; one facilitated by Rachel Burgess, and one facilitated by Jason Carney. For more information on Rachel Burgess’ group, please see the attached sheet.
- (2) hours for defending your dissertation, or attending a dissertation defense. If attending a dissertation defense, email Todd or Megan with a brief write-up detailing whose defense you attended, and your reaction to the defense.
- (2) hours for attending the following workshop, offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence: Teaching Portfolios for Future Faculty (CTL): Tuesday, April 22; May 6; & May 20, 2008: 10:00 AM - 12:00 N | 301U Faculty Commons. This workshop will be facilitated by Tim Vickers, Associate Director, CTL. It is a three-part workshop series for graduate students on the professional teaching portfolio and the critical role it can play in securing a faculty position and achieving success in the professoriate. For more information, please visit the CTL Web site at http://www.ohiou.edu/ctl, call 740.593.2681, or email .
- (2) hours each for attending the following workshops (2 hours per workshop you attend). These workshops are sponsored by the Center for Writing Excellence: Negotiating Plagiarism May 2 10-12 in Faculty Commons Alden Library 301u; Blogs and Wikis May 9, 10-12 in Faculty Commons Alden Library 301u. You do need to sign up in advance; please see the attached sheet for more information.
- (1) hour for scoring Jcomp exemption exams. (This will serve in lieu of pay.) If you have done this, please email Todd or Megan with the date you scored exams.
- (2) hours for presenting at a conference or attending a conference. E-mail Megan or Todd with the conference information (conference title, place, date) and your abstract or reaction.
- (2) hours for attending a presentation, either in the English Dept. or in another department, that you believe is relevant to your studies or your teaching. For example, if you are teaching a film course, and notice a presentation on Thai film, email Candace and Megan or Todd (whoever you normally email) with a brief explanation of the presentation and why you believe it will be relevant to you. After attending the presentation, please email us with a brief description of the presentation and your reaction to it (was it relevant/helpful after all?).
- This quarter the English Department will be hosting a presentation by Dr. Barry Milligan, professor of English Language and Literature at Wright State University. Dr. Milligan’s areas of interest include 19th Century Literature, Romanticism, Literature and the History of Medicine, and poetry and music. Dr. Milligan has taught courses on the Bronte sisters, the 19th century British Novel, and WWI and British Culture. He has also published work on the influences of opium and the Orient on 19th Century British Culture. The time and date of Dr. Milligan’s presentation will be announced at a later date.
Dogwood Bloom Reading Series
This quarter's Dogwood Bloom Reading Series will be held May 2nd at 5:00pm in Ellis 214 and will feature readings by poet Robert Cantoni, fiction writer Tony Dallacheisa, and poet Megan Villegas.
Dogwood Bloom is a student-run creative writing reading series that allows current second-year graduate students to showcase their work.
Chestnut Reading Series, in Honor of Dean McWilliams
chest * nut
- any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
- a venerable, oft-repeated story
Chesnutt, Charles W. 1858-1932
- 1058-1932, African American author and lawyer, b. Cleveland, Ohio. Subject of study by Dean McWilliams.
This quarter's Chestnut Reading Series will be held Friday May 23rd at 5:00pm in Ellis 214. The readers will be Matthew Stallard and Ian Scott Todd.
The Chestnut reading series is a student-run reading series showcasing critical work by graduate students in the English department. The reading series is a venue through which we can celebrate the critical work graduate students are doing, while giving readers valuable experience in presenting and discussing their work with other members of the academic community.
Composition Instructor Filing and Electronic Resource
CIFER is a place for our graduate student community to access and share their teaching materials. We hope that by sharing ideas and materials, instructors are able to spark new ideas about teaching, writing, and rhetoric.