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The first Day of class

Graduate Teaching Assistant Training
Fall 2014
It’s the first day of class! What do I do!??
Kevin
Hospitality Management & Dietetics
Kansas State University

Outline

•That first day and…
–Teaching Beliefs & Perspectives
–Teaching Relationships
–Teaching Tips

Teaching Beliefs
•What is effective teaching?

 

•Effective teaching
–Who should decide?
–Customers?
•Value
–Art & Delivery
OR
–Content & Technical Skill

Hospital Food

Teaching Perspectives
•What are the best practicesof teachers?
•What are the worst practicesof teachers?

•Best practices
–Engaging with the class, conversational
–Organized & consistent
–Enthusiastic
–Able to relate subject to real life
–Say what is important
–Passionate
–Flexible
–Hands-on & participative

•Worst practices
–Reading from slides
–Monotone & no emotion, dry & boring
–Unorganized, not prepared
–Useless busy work
–Unpredictable tests -questions don’t come from teaching material
–Not understanding when students don’t understand
–Contradictory
–Condescending or unapproachable

My Turn

What I think are the best practicesof students
–They are honest with me
–They try and they take some risk
–They come to work
–They accept criticism
–They bridge concepts with life and future practice
–They ask guest speakers, the instructor, and their peers good questions
–They understand I am human and mess up

What I think are the worst practicesof students?
–Not assertive
–Poor attitude
–Don’t try to apply material outside comfort zone
–Just want to get things “done”
–Need lots of pre-grading

Hospital Food

More -Teaching Relationships
•Learn from your students
•Admit to yourself and your students that you still have a lot to learn
–you’ll foster relationships while maintaining classroom authority.

Material students won’t forget
requires a
teacher they won’t forget

Teaching Tips
•Get creative & think differently
–Content vs. delivery
OR
–Content AND delivery
•Use current events
•Use things/topics they do like in the program or field to your advantage
•10% exception

Thinking Differently
Nutrition Care Process
1.Nutrition Assessment
2.Nutrition Diagnosis
3.Nutrition Intervention
4.Screening and Referral
5.Outcomes
Financial Care Process
1.Financial Assessment
2.Financial Diagnosis
3.Financial Intervention
4.Communication
5.Outcomes

Thinking Differently

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Management & Leadership

Applying Leadership and Management Theories

•K-State Campus Challenge Course
•&
•HMD 560 Students

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching Tips
•Class “committees”
–Technology committee
–Hospitality committee
–Quality control committee
•Why?

Future
•GTA roles differ
–Grading to full class ownership
–Lab/practicum to really big lectures
•Future Vita or Resume
–Seek feedback and data about your teaching
•How?
•Do it now –
–Why?

Future Vita or Resume
–Seek feedback and data about your teaching
•How?

•Future Vita or Resume
–Why?
Kevin Sauer –Vita
Education
Job #1
Job #2
Fall 2014, Graduate Teaching Assistant, K-State
WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS TO SAY!

Summary
•Foster teaching relationships
–Ask about best/worst teaching practices
•Then, revisit this (remember, relationships)
•Learn from students
–Admit your limits (remember, relationships)
•Get creative and think differently
•Format/build your resume now

Thank you
Kevin Sauer
105 Justin Hall
ksauer@ksu.edu
785-532-5581

About Monica E. Vaca-Cárdenas

Mónica Elva Vaca-Cárdenas is a Ph.D student at Kansas State University in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She has also been the Graduate Research Assistant at the Teaching and Learning Center of the Kansas State University for the last two years. Monica is from Ecuador, where she obtained the following qualifications: Doctor in Languages, mention International Cooperation, Diploma in teaching (EFL) English as a Foreign Language and a Master degree in Linguistics applied to EFL. Teaching experience: Monica has been teaching English as a Foreign Language for fifteen years in Ecuador, at elementary, high school and University level; and teaching Spanish for a couple of semesters in the International Student Center of K-State.

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