Improving your Time Management (in TAing)

Event Date & Time

Event Description

Do you have trouble balancing your graduate studies and TA responsibilities? Do you stay up all night marking or preparing for class? Are you a procrastinator? If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, then this workshop is for you. Please come to this workshop prepared to be open and honest with yourself. This workshop will begin by helping you to identify your time management strengths and weaknesses. You will also learn a number of tried-and-true methods and receive resources that will help you to gain control of your day to day life. Finally, you will have some time to reflect and assess what you have learned to determine what will be your personal best practices to manage your life as a TA moving forward. Any personal technology that you use daily (phones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, etc.) are welcome to join you in this workshop, but are not required.

Register and attend this workshop in order to complete the following theme(s):

• TA Wellness
• Teaching Skills

Facilitator: Jennifer Brown, Lead Graduate Student Facilitator, CTLT

TA Institute

The TA Institute is open to any Graduate Student who is interested in teaching or TAing, and includes sessions on Teaching and Learning Theory, Scholarship, Classroom Strategies, Campus Climate, and Lesson Design. If you have interest in becoming a better TA, or get a head start preparing for teaching in your career, sign up for one or more of these 2 hour, interactive workshops.

This year, workshops in the TA institute are organized into 5 themes, and if you complete 3 workshops in a theme, and do the related pre & post institute online module, you are eligible for a letter of completion you can include in your Teaching Portfolio and C.V. These letters will include a brief description of any themes that you completed, and how the work you did in those themes supports your development as a teacher.

The themes are:

• Teaching Skills
• TA Wellness
• Teaching and Learning Spaces
• Experiential Learning
• Teaching with Technology