First Day to Final Grade, Third Edition: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching (Michigan Teacher Training

by Anne Curzan, Lisa Damour

The third edition of First Day to Final A Graduate Student’s Guide to Teaching is designed to help new graduate student teaching assistants navigate the challenges of teaching undergraduates. Both a quick reference tool and a fluid read, the book focuses on the “how tos” of teaching, such as setting up a lesson plan, running a discussion, and grading, as well as issues specific to the teaching assistant’s unique role as both student and teacher. This new edition incorporates newer teaching and learning pedagogy. The book has been updated to reflect the role of technology both inside and outside the classroom. In addition, a new chapter has been added that discusses successfully transitioning from being a teaching assistant to being hired as a full-time instructor.

Genres: Teaching, Nonfiction, Education

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 13, 2000

About the author

Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, and Education and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, where she also currently serves as the dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Reviews

[Hafsa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview for new graduate student instructors--easy and simple read, including how to lead effective discussions, grading and managing teaching with other responsibilities.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful for graduate students who may receive little to no guidance in their teaching assistantships. As with most books of this nature, some topics address issues that are out of the graduate student's control, but will nevertheless be helpful for the future. Chapters cover a wide range of topics from designing a syllabus, weekly preparation, and running a discussion, to office hours and balancing student/teaching life.

[Mills College Library]

378.125 C983 2011