The TA Development Program (TADP) offers campus-wide training, resources, and consultation services for UCSB’s Teaching Assistants (TAs). We have workshops and certificate programs for new, mid-career, and experienced TAs that develop graduate students’ teaching competencies and prepare them for future careers as faculty.
We run Pillars of TAship workshops every quarter as well as specialty workshops, which change every quarter and are designed with the mid-career TA in mind. Below are descriptions of specialty workshops that are offered frequently.
- Crafting your Teaching Philosophy Statement
- Preparing your CCUT Portfolio
- Analyzing and Interpreting your ESCI Scores
- Cool Tools for Communication and Collaboration
- Boosting In-class Participation
We also frequently partner with the Graduate Division, GauchoSpace, and CITRAL to provide comprehensive support. For technical training in GauchoSpace, GradeScope, i>Clicker, Nectir and other campus-supported technologies, please see the educational technology help pages or email the help desk.
Please register to attend workshops in advance to guarantee your spot.
This Quarter's TA Workshops TA Certificate Programs TA Orientation
TADP Professional Development for TAs at UCSB
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Grad 210: College & University |
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TA Development
TA Community
Join the TA Development Program community on Nectir to give and receive great advice about teaching at UCSB.
Info for New TAs
See here for resources specific to new TAs, including information about TA Orientation.
TA Programs
Attend a TA Training Program to improve your teaching skills or prepare for your future career as a faculty member.
International TAs
Click here for more information about teaching in the American context.
Our Graduate Student Peer Consultants
Every year we hire a team of experienced graduate students as Teaching Assistant Pedagogical Advisors to conduct TA video consultations, develop and run TA workshops, and make pedagogical materials for our website and programs.
Jazmine Exford - Linguistics
Alyssa Lawson - Psychology and Brain Sciences
Destiny Hoerberg - Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
2019-2021 Peer Consultants
- Elizabeth Schmidt - History
- Evan Murnane - Music
- Eugene Riordan - Global Studies
- Katie Jan - Comparative Literature
- Jenny Sperling - Education
- Anthony Clairmont - Education
- Brody Thompson - Music
Contacts
TA Development Program
1130 Kerr Hall
id-tadp@ucsb.edu
805-893-2972