--- Forwarded Message from "Amy Burns Short" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Amy Burns Short" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Technology/professional development in ITA training >Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:39:20 EDT ------------------ Greetings, Hope all goes well. I have some questions to pose. I am compiling information for a follow-up article about international teaching assistants for the July/August issue of American Language Review. For this second part, I have been writing to and talking with a variety of people about curricular and co-curricular institutional efforts focusing on acculturation of ITAs. This might include, but is certainly not limited to, the following areas: ** Using technology to enhance ITA training. ** Providing increasing professional development opportunities for ITAs. ** Using a variety of perspectives to rate ITA performance. ** Including ITAs in the multicultural mission of universities. Should you, your colleagues, or any ITAs you work/have worked with be interested in sharing thoughts, expertise, and comments with regard to these queries, it would be most appreciated -- not to mention very interesting to see what various institutions are doing or planning to do. For teachers, trainers, administrators: What programs, practices and/or projects have been useful at your institution in preparing international teaching assistants for classroom interaction (as an instructor) with mostly American students? How have these efforts helped to acculturate and/or integrate the ITAs/future ITAs into the cultures of American academia and/or American life? What, in your opinion, are future trends in this type of preparation/training at yourinstitution? For international TAs: What programs, practices and/or projects have been useful at your institution in preparing you for classroom interaction (as an instructor) with undergraduate students? How have these efforts helped to acculturate and/or integrate you into the cultures of American academia and/or American life? What are some of the experiences you have had (good or not so good)? What advice could you give to new international TAs, generally? Thanks for your time and consideration. Regards, Amy Short ___________________________________________ Amy Burns Short Director of Graduate Student Teaching Programs North Carolina State University The Graduate School Campus Box 7102 Raleigh, NC 27695-7102 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: (919) 515-2293 Fax: (919) 515-2873 ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com