Programs and Services

Teaching Orientation Workshops for Graduate TAs

Schools and departments organize orientation workshops for new graduate teaching assistants.  In addition, TLL is also available to assist individual departments with their own orientation program.

Fall 2009 TA Orientation Calendar & Contact Information

School of Architecture and Planning

ARCHITECTURE - Date/time/loc TBD - contact Cynthia Stewart (stewart@MIT.EDU)

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING - Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon, location TBD - contact Lilly Song (lsong@MIT.EDU)

School of Engineering - Friday, September 4, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., location TBD - contact Barbara Masi, x3-1860 (bamasi@MIT.EDU)

EECS - Tuesday (evening), September 8, 2009, exact time & loc TBD - contact Professor Denny Freeman (freeman@MIT.EDU)

Civil & Environmental Engineering (Training for 1.00 TAs only) - Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in 5-231 - contact George Kocur x3-1982 (gkocur@MIT.EDU)

School of Science

CHEMISTRY - Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in 4-237 AND Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. beginning in 4-237 - contact Melinda Cerny, x3-0909 (cerny@MIT.EDU)

BIOLOGY - Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in 68-181 - contact Janice Chang, x3-7344 (jdchang@mit.edu)

BRAIN & COGNITIVE SCIENCE - Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., 46-3015 - contact Denise Heintze, x3-5741 (heintze@MIT.EDU)

EARTH, ATMOSPHERIC, & PLANETARY SCIENCES (EAPS) - contact Vicki McKenna, x3-3380 (vsm@mit.edu)

MATHEMATICS - Microteaching Workshops at the end of semesters and prior to start of fall semesters - contact Michel Behrens, x3-4380 (behrens@MATH.MIT.EDU). Further information available at: (http://www-math.mit.edu/academics/grad/timeline/training.html)

Sloan School of Management - Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 12 noon, E51-345 - contact Debbie Berechman, x3-5160 (dberech@MIT.EDU)

School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Science (SHASS)

ECONOMICS

LINGUISTICS (Training specifically for 24.900 TAs) - Friday, September 11th - contact Donca Steriade, x3-9374 (steriade@MIT.EDU)

POLITICAL SCIENCE

HASTS (History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society) - Wednesday, September 9, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon, E51-095: Orientation to teaching HASS recitations; facilitated by Lori Breslow, Director of MIT’s Teaching and Learning Lab.

Wednesday, September 16, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon, E51-095: Evaluating students’ writing assignments; facilitated by Neal Lerner, Director of Training for MIT’s Writing Across the Curriculum.

TAs from other SHASS departments are invited to attend the above sessions hosted by HASTS - contact Karen Gardner to reserve a seat, x3-9759 (kgardner@MIT.EDU)