"Teaching Gradually" is a guide for anyone new to teaching and learning in higher education. Written "for" graduate student instructors, "by" graduate students with substantive teaching experience, ...this resource is among the first of its kind to speak to graduate students as comrades-in-arms with voices from alongside them in the trenches, rather than from far behind the lines. Each author featured in this book was a graduate student at the time they wrote their contribution. Consequently, the following chapters give scope to a newer, diverse generation of educators who are closer in experience and professional age to the book's intended audience. The tools, methods, and ideas discussed here are ones that the authors have found most useful in teaching today's students. Each chapter offers a variety of strategies for successful classroom practices that are often not explicitly covered in graduate training. Overall, this book consists of 42 chapters written by 51 authors who speak from a vast array of backgrounds and viewpoints, and who represent a broad spectrum of experience spanning small, large, public, and private institutions of higher education. Each chapter offers targeted advice that speaks to the learning curve inherent to early-career teaching, while presenting tangible strategies that readers can leverage to address the dynamic professional landscape they inhabit. The contributors' stories and reflections provide the context to build the reader's confidence in trying new approaches in their his or her teaching. This book covers a wide range of topics designed to appeal to graduate student instructors across disciplines, from those teaching discussion sections, to those managing studio classes and lab sessions, to those serving as the instructor of record for their own course. Despite the medley of content, two common threads run throughout this volume: a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, and an acknowledgment of the increasing shift to online teaching. As a result of engaging with "Teaching Gradually," readers will be able to: (1) Identify best teaching practices to enhance student learning; (2) Develop a plan to implement these strategies in their teaching; (3) Expand their conception of contexts in which teaching and learning can take place; (4) Evaluate and refine their approaches to fostering inclusion in and out of the classroom; (5) Assess student learning and the efficacy of their own teaching practices; and (6) Practice professional self-reflection. Foreword written by Mathew L. Ouellett.
Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special ...educational needs. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils. This key and timely text examines the impact of TAs on pupils' learning and behaviour, and on teachers and teaching. The authors present the provocative findings from the ground-breaking and seminal Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) project. This was the largest, most in-depth study ever to be carried out in this field. It critically examined the effect of TA support on the academic progress of 8,200 pupils, made extensive observations of nearly 700 pupils and over 100 TAs, and collected data from over 17,800 questionnaire responses and interviews with over 470 school staff and pupils. This book reveals the extent to which the pupils in most need are let down by current classroom practice. The authors present a robust challenge to the current widespread practices concerning TA preparation, deployment and practice, structured around a conceptually and empirically strong explanatory framework. The authors go on to show how schools need to change if they are to realise the potential of TAs. With serious implications not just for classroom practice, but also whole-school, local authority and government policy, this will be an indispensable text for primary, secondary and special schools, senior management teams, those involved in teacher training and professional development, policy-makers and academics.
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Revue française de science politique,
01/2019, Volume:
69, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
C'est un décentrement du regard, des élus vers leurs collaborateurs dans toute leur diversité, que nous proposent Willy Beauvallet, Sébastien Michon et leurs treize coauteurs et coautrices dans leur ...Sociologie des collaborateurs politiques. Ayant pour titre principal Dans l'ombre des élus, cet ouvrage collectif a effectivement pour objectif et principal mérite d'éclairer cet objet d'étude encore trop inexploré que sont les milliers de collaborateurs chargés d'assister, de façon plus ou moins institutionnalisée et professionnalisée, les dirigeants politiques dans leurs fonctions électives. Proposant dix contributions à cette sociologie des collaborateurs, le livre choisit de délaisser les classiques conseillers ministériels qui ont suscité l'attention des travaux fondateurs de ce champ d'étude pour faire place à des fonctions plus méconnues : administrateurs du Parlement, directeurs de cabinet régionaux, directeurs généraux des services, assistants de groupes parlementaires ou encore conjointes d'élus. Les dix chapitres explorent trois problématiques distinctes : la manière dont les collaborateurs jouent avec la frontière entre technique et politique et interrogent les frontières des entreprises politiques des élus ; les relations de concurrence et de collaboration entre les collaborateurs d'élus et leurs effets sur la division du travail politique ; le travail de collaboration comme étape préliminaire à la carrière élective. Le choix est d'une certaine manière de s'intéresser davantage aux assistants d'élus comme catégorie sociale en s'interrogeant par exemple sur ce que cette expérience de collaboration produit sur leur carrière professionnelle qu'à la production des collaborateurs, notamment en termes de politiques publiques…
North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea of an 'ITA problem', a deficiency model ...which is framed as a divergence between ITAs' linguistic competence and undergraduates' and their parents' expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice.
A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.In a book written directly for graduate students that includes graduate student voices and experiences, Aeron ...Haynie and Stephanie Spong establish why good teaching matters and offer a guide to helping instructors-in-training create inclusive and welcoming classrooms.Teaching Matters is informed by recent research while being grounded in the personal perspectives of current and past graduate students in many disciplines. Graduate students can use this book independently to prepare to teach their courses, or it can be used as a guide for a teaching practicum. With a just-in-time checklist for graduate students who are assigned to teach courses right before the semester starts, step-by-step directions for writing a compelling teaching philosophy, and an emphasis on teaching well regardless of modality, Teaching Matters will remain relevant for graduate students throughout their careers.
Few patients with opioid use disorder receive medication for addiction treatment. In 2017 the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act enabled nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) ...to obtain federal waivers allowing them to prescribe buprenorphine, a key medication for opioid use disorder. The waiver expansion was intended to increase patients' access to opioid use treatment, which was particularly important for rural areas with few physicians. However, little is known about the adoption of these waivers by NPs or PAs in rural areas. Using federal data, we examined waiver adoption in rural areas and its association with scope-of-practice regulations, which set the extent to which NPs or PAs can prescribe medication. From 2016 to 2019 the number of waivered clinicians per 100,000 population in rural areas increased by 111 percent. NPs and PAs accounted for more than half of this increase and were the first waivered clinicians in 285 rural counties with 5.7 million residents. In rural areas, broad scope-of-practice regulations were associated with twice as many waivered NPs per 100,000 population as restricted scopes of practice were. The rapid growth in the numbers of NPs and PAs with buprenorphine waivers is a promising development in improving access to addiction treatment in rural areas.
Examining the work-related psychological states of nurse practitioners and physician assistants is important, given their increased role expansion. The current PRISMA-guided review examined studies ...published between 2000 and 2016 for both these groups. The review also examined features of the research to draw conclusions about overall quality. Applying theories in job enrichment and job demands, 32 articles were identified that contained analyses of satisfaction, burnout, stress, and turnover. Key findings include the lack of robust research designs, overemphasis on job satisfaction, lower levels of satisfaction across both groups, and higher intrinsic versus extrinsic satisfaction levels generally. The literature can develop by using larger, more representative samples, including subgroup analyses that incorporate everyday work contexts, and more predictive modeling. The results suggest that both occupations experience role expansion in both positive and negative ways that may require additional policy or managerial interventions.
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