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This repository of information and resources has been created to help you evolve professionally; inside and outside the classroom. We hope you find it useful in developing your craft and that it benefits your professors and students as well.
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Welcome Teaching Assistants!
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Simplified How-To Guide
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Academic Dishonesty
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Acknowledgements
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Active Learning Strategies
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Activity Driven Labs
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Additional Helpful Links
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Additional Links On Academic Dishonesty
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A Few Tips Every TA Should Know
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Anxiety
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Arguments Of Karl Marx
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Articulate The Principles Of And Purpose For Good Assessment
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A Safe Learning Environment
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Assignments Quizzes Etc
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Be Able To Effectively Manage Class Time
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Be Able To Elicit Discussion
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Be Able To Identify Obstacles To Motivation And Learn To Address Those Obstacles
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Be Able To Illustrate Points Clearly
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Be Aware Of Teaching Roles and Teaching Styles
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Be Fair, Objective And Prompt
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Be Fair, Objective And Prompt
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Beginning A Lab Section
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Best Practices
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Bibliography
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Bipolar Disorder
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Bringing Closure To The Lab
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Check For Understanding
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Classify and Respond to Diverse Student Needs
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Classroom Teaching Roles
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Communicating About Grades
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Communicating Effectively With Your Students
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Conducting a Laboratory Session
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Connect Discussion To Lecture
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Constructing Assessments
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Contact
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Create and Maintain a Safe Learning Environment
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Creating An Excel Gradebook
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Dealing with Conflicts
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Debates
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Delineate Appropriate Boundaries Between TAs And Students
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Depression
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Design Assignments
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Each One Teach One
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Eating Disorders
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Efforts and Attention: Yes, there's a way to evaluate this too!
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Enforcing Missed Exam Late Work Policies
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Evaluate Students Relative To Learning Goals
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Evaluate Students Work Relative To Learning Goals And A
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Evidence Of Cheating At USC
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Examples
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Examples Of Tcp
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Examples Of Tec
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Examples Of Technologies
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Exercise Flexibility With Enforcing Your Missed Exam Late Work Policies
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Expectations
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Experiment Driven Labs
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Finding Material
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For Teaching Assistants in Arts
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Forum Categories
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Forum Category
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Forum Thread
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Fundamental Theories
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Fundamental Theories Of Education
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Get Organized Before Discussion
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Grading
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Grading
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Grading Exams And Assignments
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Grading Exams And Assignments
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Grading Group Work
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Grading Methods
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Grading On The Curve Vs Grading Against A Preset Standard
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Grading Participation
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Grading Principles And Policies
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Grading Principles And Policies
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Grieving
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Groupwork
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Group Work
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Group Work- Jury Selection
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Handling Diverse Student Personalities
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Handling Student Personalities And Behaviors
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Handling Student Personalities And Behaviors
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Handling Student Personalities And Behaviors Ii
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How Do I Deal With
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How Technology Creates A Better Learning Environment
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How to Communicate Effectively With Students
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How To Edit Pages - Quickstart
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How to Get the Contact Information for the Instructor
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How To Get The Most Out Of Technology
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How to Motivate Different Types of Students
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Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
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Identify Dishonest Student Work And Respond Appropriately
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Identifying Student Personalities
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Implement Fair Grading Practices In A Multi Ta Setting
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Importance
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Interacting With Students
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Introduction
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Join This Site
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Journaling Reflection
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Jury Selection/Voir Dire Process
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Keeping Students Engaged
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Keeping Track Of Time
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Keep Students Involved
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Know How University Policies Shape Your Responsibilities
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Know Your Audience
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Late Work Or Missing Exams
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Late Work Or Missing Exams
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Leading A Discussion Session
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Lead TA Responsibilities
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Learning Differences And Disabilities
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Learning Styles
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Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Students
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Lesson 2: Rewards
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Limits And Hazards Of Technology
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List All Pages
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Make The Most Of Your Time
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Making The Lab Relevant To The Lecture Material
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Making The Mistake Of Mis-identification
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Manage Site
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Managing Responsibilities
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Midterm and Final Reviews
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Motivate And Inspire Your Students
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Motivational Techniques
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New Forum Thread
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Notecards
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Objective 1
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Organization And Preparation
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Others Responsibilities
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Page Tags
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Pairwork Or Pair-Share
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Plan for Short- and Long-Term Rewards of TA-ing
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Plan For Short And Long Term Rewards Of Ta Ing
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Plan For Sort And Long Term Rewards Of Ta Ing
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Policies Regarding Late Work
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Policies Regarding Missing Exams
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Potential Problems
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Preventing And Addressing Problems
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Prevention
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Problems With Equipment And Materials
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Proctoring Exams
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Project Driven Labs
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Quick Hints On Teaching Roles
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Quiz-games, Word search and Crosswords
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Recent Changes
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Recent Forum Posts
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Recent Threads
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Recording And Calculating Grades
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Recording And Calculating Grades
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Recording Calculating Grades
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References
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Returning Graded Material
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Role Of The Instructor And The TA
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Role Playing
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Roles, Responsibilities, and Rewards of TA-ing
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Running A Weekly Discussion Section
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Running A Weekly Lab Section
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Safety Procedures
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Scenario 1: Don't worry! You can handle this.
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Scenario 1: Don't worry! You can handle this.
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Scenario 1: You make yourself a hot cup of tea.
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Scenario 2: Past Sins
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Scenario 2: While you are waiting for emergency vehicles to clear the road, you sit and watch the driver next to you.
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Scenario 2: You are optimistic that emergency vehicles will appear soon and clear the highway.
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Scenario 3: Did my professor just go AWOL?
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Scenario 3: On your way to the building, you stop at the library.
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Scenario 3: Stop running!
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Scenario 4: You think, “Everyone is in the wrong room but me”!
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Scenario 4: You wonder how this can happen on the first day of the class.
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Scenario 5: You locate the nearest phone.
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Scenario 5: You look at the beautiful day around you.
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Scenario 6: You are seconds from going into complete panic mode.
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Scenario 6: You have NO idea what the answer could be.
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Scenario 7: You embrace the adventurous side of being a TA.
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Scenario 7: You sit back and smile to yourself.
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Schizophrenia
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Search the site
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Side
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Site Management
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Site Members
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Software And Goodies
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Standardizing Your Grading
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Standardizing Your Grading
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Strategies To Get To Know Your Students
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Strategies To Get To Know Your Students
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Student-Athletes
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Student Diversity
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Student Emergencies
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Student Investment
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Student Mental Health
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Student Privacy: Ferpa
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Students Coping With Mental Health Issues
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Supporting the Professor's Lecture
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Page tags
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TA Investment
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Ta Responsibility Questionnaire
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Teaching Roles Videos
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Teaching Strategies
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Teaching With Technology
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Technology at USC and Elsewhere
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Technology Quick Start
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The Appropriate Level of Your Students
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The First Day And Before
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The Usc Honor Code And Its Meaning
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Thought Mapping
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Tips For Preventing Academic Dishonesty
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To-Do Lists
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Top Bar Menu
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Understand and Plan for Your Assistantship Role
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University, Departmental And Course Policies
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Uscta Anchor Template
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Uscta Page Template
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Utilize Active Learning Strategies
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Video Clip Examples
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What Are The Possible Sanctions And Consequences Of Academic Dishonesty
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What Are University Policies And Resources Regarding Academic Dishonesty
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What Constitutes Academic Dishonesty
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What is a Wiki Site?
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What To Do In A Case Of Emergency
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What You Don't Want To Find Yourself Doing
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When Attention Wanders
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Why Are YOU There
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Working with Different Students Issues
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Working With Professors Expectations
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Worst Case Scenarios
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Your Responsibilities
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Your Role as a Teaching Assistant
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