Here are some initial thoughts on the question of how to maintain the Arts TA/GA program over time.
Written documents
-Gillian problems used year-to-year
-notes taken during group sessions (i.e., group thoughts on Gillian problems)
-evaluations, including thoughts on possible changes to the program in future
-academic article
-possibility of academic poster?
Involvement of past Arts TA/GA participants
-people who have completed the program and are still at Ryerson (How to include them? How to motivate/interest them in taking part?)
-Arts TA blog; possibiity of occasional e-mail prompts to encrouage use?
-conference presentations/workshops/roundtables involving a larger group
-possibility of involving TA/GA participants from other universities? (people from Ryerson program who've relocated; people who've been through other programs/experiences from other universities who are now at Ryerson; people from other universites who wish to co-facilitate a program through blog, meetings, conference workshops/roundtables)
Institutional involvement
-allocation of space and resources
-involvement of interested faculty
(while I think this has to be acknowledged, not sure how far to go with this)
Thoughts? Comments?
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I don't see "grad students take over and run their own TA development program" listed here... :) Ownership of capacity, responsibility, and accountability seem key to the sustainability of the program, especially if the university wants to divide students by implementing its own "official" program.
ReplyDeleteYou're right that I didn't spell that out explicitly. I thought it was implicit though, i.e., through the documents created by TAs and their ongoing invovelement in the program. Good thought to make it explicit though.
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