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Training The Foot Soldiers Of Inquiry: Development And Evaluation Of A Graduate Teaching Assistant Learning Community, Kimberly Linenberger, Michael C. Slade, Elizabeth A. Addis, Emily R. Elliot
Training The Foot Soldiers Of Inquiry: Development And Evaluation Of A Graduate Teaching Assistant Learning Community, Kimberly Linenberger, Michael C. Slade, Elizabeth A. Addis, Emily R. Elliot
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As part of a Howard Hughes Program for Innovation in Science Education grant at Iowa State University, a series of interdisciplinary graduate teaching assistant learning communities (TALC) were developed. The purpose of these communities was to create an environment to facilitate teaching assistants' pedagogical development and training to enhance the implementation of inquiry experiences in the undergraduate laboratories. The TALC evaluated in this study were held for two consecutive semesters and included teaching assistants who facilitated multi-week course-based research experiences in their respective STEM courses. Topics discussed during the TALC were based on the teaching assistants' concerns related to teaching …