Instagram feedback
Use Instagram to give quick and professional feedback to your students on things like topic ideas. It’s also a good place to host reminders and/or announcements in addition to anything you might post on Blackboard.
Better discussions using socratic seminar
Do you ever have trouble keeping conversations about readings going, especially when your class seems to be made up of shy students?
Accessibility Tip: Make Your Deadlines Flexible
Do you have strict deadlines for turning assignments in? Are you worried that setting strict deadlines will make things difficult for students with busy lives? Feel free to use my deadline policy, which I adapted from www.accessiblesyllabus.com.
New TA Q&A
Read on to hear advice and tales of both triumph and tragedy from fellow TAs who have been where you are and lived to tell the tale.