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Summer Session & Team Teaching
Elizabeth NicholsGraduate Student TA Training Workshop
January 8, 2007
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Summer Session Teaching
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Why teach summer school?
• Gain experience planning a course
• Gain experience in public speaking
• Great addition to your CV
• Learn to explain complicated concepts clearly
• You get paid
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What should I teach?
• Intro Course – Not the same as an intro course taught during
school year
• Specialized Course– Something done previously (Abnormal Psych, Conflict
Negotiation, Peak Performance, etc)
– Something new
• Usually must have at least 5 students enrolled
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Who attends summer school?
Wide variety of education levels and ages
• High school students
• Undergrads (Stanford and non-Stanford)
• Grad students (Stanford and non-Stanford, usually not psych majors)
• Random others
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What problems have others experienced?
• High-school students can act like high-school students
– Talk or sleep throughout class• Take charge early on
– Don’t know how to take notes or follow lecture• Provide outline and/or cheat sheets• Talk to students after first exam• Provide emotional support if needed
– Do poorly and don’t care• Refer to Summer Session at Stanford
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What problems have others experienced?
• Teaching to wide variety of education levels– Keep everyone interested and involved
• Various other student-specific problems– Plagiarism– Don’t show up for exams or make-up exams
– Students that don’t want to be taught by females
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What resources are available?
• Center for Teaching and Learning– 723-1326 – http://ctl.stanford.edu/
• Stanford Disability Resource Center– 723-1066 – http://www.stanford.edu/group/DRC/
• Summer Session at Stanford– 723-3109– http://summersession.stanford.edu/summer/
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How do I make the class go well?
• Make coursework site and put books on reserve before class starts
• Come to class prepared (notes, slides, etc.)
• Clearly state expectations and grading basis
• Be available to students
• Ask for feedback (mid-course evaluations)
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How do I make lectures go well?
• Complement text with other materials
• Encourage discussion
• Don’t assume any background knowledge
• Take break if teaching more than 50 min.
• Expect to be surprised
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Teach alone or with others?
Teaching Alone• Complete control over
course• More money• Looks great on CV
Team Teaching• Dynamic and interactive
learning environment• Inspire collaborations
and new ideas• Less work per person
Each method has benefits:
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Team Teaching
“Team Teaching: Benefits and Challenges” by Melissa Levitt, 2006
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Models of Team Teaching
• Interactive Model- all instructors present and active throughout course
• Rotational Model- each instructor teaches subset of course
• Dispersed Model- some lectures taught by all instructors, some taught by only one instructor
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Be a Team
• Plan everything together– Before school starts
• Attend one another’s lectures
• Refer to co-instructors ideas
• Use common grading procedures
– Throughout the course
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Talk Even When Not in Charge
• Acting like an exemplary student encourages discussion and feeling of equality in class– Model learner
– Discussion leader
– Observer
– Devil’s advocate
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Encourage discussion
• Model debate with co-instructors
• Ask open questions
• Let the students speak
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Conclusion
• Summer school teaching and team teaching are both valuable and educational experiences.
• The more you put into to each the more you will gain.