Training Of Teaching Assistants On Technology Driven Lesson Development

The Graduate Teaching with Technology Certificate (GTTC) course is a 28 contact hour training program for graduate student teaching assistants intending to become faculty members. The program combines technology with pedagogy to better enable participants to design instruction and integrate technology to enhance student learning. After being introduced to a number of technology tools currently used for instruction, participants develop a one-hour online lesson utilizing any or all of the tools. Peer and instructor feedback is utilized to help guide participants towards developing a lesson that is both technologically and pedagogically sound. A sample lesson developed by an engineering graduate student is provided in the appendix to demonstrate the content creation resulting from the course. The effectiveness of the program was measured using a series of feedback and evaluation forms provided to the participants throughout the program.