A "short list" of links to pedagogical sites, instructional development programs, and TA labor union sites.
For access to more extensive resources, please visit the English Department Knowledge Base Instructor's Index.

TA Development Programs

UCSB TA Development Program A deep site by UCSB's Department of Instructional Consultation. Includes important dates (for orientation and TA institutes) as well as teaching tips, details about how to have your class video-taped, tips for international TAs, and information about the UCSB Certificate in College and University Teaching (CCUT).

Instructional Development's TA Handbook If you don't have time to explore IC's TA site, go here first. This is an extremely competent and comprehensive resource with statements on contractual conditions of TA employment, your status as a union member, how to run a discussion section, the promotion of academic honesty. This page is an indispensable resource!

UCLA Library of links for TA development programs. Links to Instructional Development Centers spread throughout the University of California. Includes direct links to resources such as TA Training programs and TA Handbooks.

Labor Union Sites

UC AGSE/UAW The home page for the Academic Graduate Student Employees'/United Auto Worker's Union.

Local 2865 UCSB AGSE/UAW page for UCSB TAs.

Yale's TA Union A useful link for all those interested in the history of the TA labor movement.

UCSB Graduate Student Resources

UCSB Graduate Student Association Interdisciplinary association run by and for UCSB grads.

Pedagogical Resources

UCSB English Department Knowledge Base/Voice of the Shuttle Teaching Resources Extensive link library; annotated. Categories include: General Teaching Resources, Media Literacy Project, Technology of Teaching, Syllabus Archive, Journals, and Conferences.

Barbara Gross Davis's Tools for Good Teaching. A compendium of classroom-tested strategies and suggestions designed to improve the teaching practices of all college instructors, including beginning, mid-career, and senior faculty members. The book describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical tasks--writing a course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture--as well as newer, broader concerns such as responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints. This is not a site developed with TAs in mind, but very helpful nonetheless.

Writing Resources

Style and Grammar (Voice of the Shuttle)

Writing Guides (Davidson Library UCSB)