Mentoring International Teaching Assistants: A Case Study of Improving Teaching Practices

Improving Speaking Fluency for International Teaching Assistants by Increasing Input

One challenge for many international teaching assistants (ITAs) is improving their spoken English fluency after arrival in the U.S.A. It may be argued that poor fluency, with its hallmarks of slow speech rate, false starts, and particularly pauses that violate phrasal boundaries, account for the failure of many ITAs to be certified by their institutions to teach undergraduate labs or classes. A...

Assessment of Managerial Practices at selected Teaching Hospital in Khartoum State: A case study

Background and Objectives: Hospital management and its manner of governance influence different aspects of hospital performance. In Sudan; there we face scarcity of research about hospital management. The objective of this study was assessment of managerial practices of selected Teaching Hospital in order to improve the strategies of providing services and teaching. Me...

Mentoring beginning primary teachers for exemplary teaching practices

In exploring the potential for mentoring to support novice teachers’ use of effective teaching practices, we conducted a grounded theory analysis about change potential. Themes emerging from cross-case analysis of survey, interview, and observation data from six beginning primary teachers in the US and their mentors revealed factors, other than type of mentoring programme, that related to begin...

Planning, Discourse Marking, and the Comprehensibility of International Teaching Assistants

Teaching assistants Toolkit references

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