TA Training

WHAT & WHEN:New and returning 2009-2010 History TAs must attend the TA Initial
Training Day on Monday, September 21, from 9 am to 3 pm, as part of
the Department’s year-long TA Training Program.

WHERE:
TA Initial Training will take place on campus in the Humanities and
Social Sciences Building (HSSB), room 4020.  If needed, see this
webpage for directions to the HSSB.

WHO:
Graduate students who have never TA’d in the History Department,
despite prior TA experience in other departments, must attend the full
day of History TA Initial Training (9 am to 3 pm).  Experienced
History TAs will attend only the afternoon session (noon lunch to 3
pm; see below for lunch info). Graduate students TAing in other
departments on campus are welcome to attend the History TA Initial
Training Day, as are students on the alternate TA list.

FIRST TA 500 MEETINGS:
Please note that professors often hold their first 500 meetings with
new and experienced Fall TAs after 3 pm when the Initial Training Day
concludes. Professors that choose to do so will contact you
separately; please plan accordingly. 

LUNCH ON INITIAL TRAINING DAY:
The unifying theme for this year’s History TA Training Program is
accessibility: accessibility to community networks, accessibility to
teaching resources, and accessibility to campus resources.  In order
to help build our community networks this year, we hope to have
experienced History TAs contribute to a pot-luck lunch for all the
History TAs to share at noon during the Initial Training Day.
Experienced TAs, please contact either Colleen Ho
(colleen_ho@umail.ucsb.edu) or Roger Eardley-Pryor
(pryorrw@umail.ucsb.edu) with a dish you are able to contribute to
lunch.

New History TAs: we look forward to seeing you at 9 am on Monday,
September 21. For those new graduate students who have never TA’d at
UCSB in any department, please note that you must also attend the
Campus-wide TA Orientation in Campbell Hall on Tuesday, September 22,
from 9 am to 1 pm.

Experienced History TAs: we hope to hear from you before then to
learn what you can contribute to the pot-luck lunch at noon that day,
prior to the afternoon session.

If you have questions regarding the History Department TA Initial
Training Day or the year-long TA Training Program, please contact
either Colleen or Roger.

Enjoy the remainder of your summer and see you soon!

Your Lead History TAs 2009-2010,
Colleen Ho
and
Roger Eardley-Pryor

hm 8/20/09