Orientation for English Teaching Assistants

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Orientation for English Teaching Assistants

• by
• Grace Jiau
• Annie Hung
• Department of English
• December, 2006

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Good Experiences in Learning

• Please share your GOOD experiences in learning
  English.
• Have you ever met a teacher who you think is
  HELPFUL to you in language learning?
• In what way, did the teacher help you?

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Good Experience in being a language tutor or
teaching assistant

• Have you ever been a language tutor or teaching
  assistant?
• Share your good experiences in the process of
  tutoring or teaching your students.

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Advantages of being a language teaching assistant

• What advantages can you gain from being a
  language teaching assistant?

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• A Good Teaching Assistant..

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A Good Teaching Assistant..

• Knows students needs
• Is an effective communicator
• Allows students to ask questions
• Has classroom rules and procedures

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A Good Teaching Assistant..

• Encourages cooperation and sets an example
• Respects all students
• Encourages good performance
• Dedicates him/herself to the assistant job

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A Good Teaching Assistant..

• Uses different methods to liven up lessons
• Keeps students attention
• Is patient

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A Good Teaching Assistant..

• Arrives in time to start a lesson and ends a
  lesson in time
• Enjoys his/her job

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• JOB DESCRIPTION

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• IDENTIFY STUDENTS YEAR GROUP
• IDENTIFY STUDENTS ENGLISH NAME
• DIAGNOSE STUDENTS PROBLESM
• DO PROBLEM-SOLVING

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• PREPARE SUPPORT MATERIAL
• DESIGN PRACTICE SHEET
• ASSIGN HOMEWORK
• PREPARE A FILE FOLDER FOR EACH STUDENT

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• DESIGN RECORD SHEET/CHECKLIST FOR EACH COURSE
• KEEP RECORD FOR EACH STUDENT
• DOCUMENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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• COURSE INTRODUCTION

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• Course description
• Course objectives
• Syllabus
• Textbooks

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Courses in different year group

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

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1st Year 2nd Year

• Listening
• Speaking
• Writing
• Reading

• Listening
• Speaking
• by Miss Jiau

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2nd Year 3rd Year

• Writing
• Reading
• by Miss Hung

• Listening
• Speaking
• Writing
• Reading

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• Questions

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Part I

• How long is the course?
• How many students do I have?
• Who are they? (name, class)
• How many subjects do they fail?
• What are they?

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• What do they need?
• What do they expect me (TA) to do?
• Whats your plan?

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• Part II

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• Why do you decide to become a teaching assistant?
• Have you ever taken care of someone? Did you
  enjoy it?
• Are you a positive and energetic person? (Give
  an example to back up your answer.)

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• Are you an empathetic person? Give an example.
• Tell me about yourself in two minutes.
• How do you feel if a student does not meet a
  deadline?

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• Imagine what will be the most frustrating/best
  thing that will happen to you as a teaching
  assistant?
• Are there any ways you can do to encourage
  students to learn?

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• How do you handle a student who seems gifted, but
  is a discipline problem?
• What are your strengths? And what are your
  weaknesses?

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• Can you give me two examples to show that youll
  be patient to help your students?
• Would you do anything to help yourself to calm
  down when your students can not meet your needs?

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• Data Collected from
• Group Discussion on Students Role and TAs
• Role in Tutoring Process

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Students role Teachers role

• Motivation get sth. they want
• Strong motivation
• Be relaxed while they studying with T
• Believe themselves

• Motivation help SS to get what they want
• Help them to keep the motivation forever
• Build up their trust between S and T
• Help them to build up their confidence

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• Always give T the info. of their problems
• Find out their own learning ways

• Help SS to find out problems (why what) and
  help them to solve them
• Help them to find out their own learning ways

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• Prepare Qs before the class (review/preview)
• Respect
• What Ts questions
• Effective communication
• Follow the rules

• Get well-prepared before the class
• Respect
• Know SS levels
• Effective communication
• Set up rules

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• Write homework
• Ask Qs
• Prepare tests
• Discuss the tests with T
• Do their best

• Assign HW
• Solve their problems
• Give tests
• Discuss the tests with SS
• Encourage when SS perform well
• Adjust teaching methods

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• Concentrate
• Good mood
• Be punctual
• Good attitude
• Active participation

• Patient
• Good mood
• Be punctual
• Good attitude
• Explain lessons clearly

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• Give response
• Know their own problems
• Do exercises
• Believe T can help
• Believe T will find some ways out to help SS

• Know what are SSs problems
• Give proper exercises
• Build up trust bet. T and S

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• Takes notes
• Have passion
• Talk to TA about learning stress
• Be friends, but also show respect

• Be responsible
• Be optimistic
• Have confidence
• Stand in SSs shoes
• Treat SS as a friend/be friendly

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• Be creative
• Follow the steps
• Be brave to express their ideas
• Be open-minded
• See learning as a hobby and enjoy it
• Be free to tell T about real feeling and feedback

• Design the course in order
• Arise SS curiosity
• Use different teaching methods
• See teaching as a hobby
• Establish a pressure-free environment