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Helping Graduate Teaching Assistants Lead Discussions with Undergraduate Students: A Few Simple Teaching Strategies Feature Summary

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Helping Graduate Teaching Assistants Lead Discussions: A Few Simple Teaching Techniques
Description:
Graduate teaching assistants are frequently asked to lead discussion groups in tutorials, review sessions, or problem-based learning classes. In their preparation, what to teach is often emphasized over how to teach. This paper provides a few simple teaching strategies for TAs in the biological sciences, but the ideas are applicable to physical science educators as well.
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June 14, 2010 - August 14, 2012