In 1993, the Office of the Provost established a requirement that graduate students functioning as teaching assistants (TAs) be trained using a series of UNIV courses coordinated through Educational ...

Complaints about the lack of attention to teaching in Ph.D. programs are legion — mainly about the perceived disconnect between what we are trained to do in graduate school and what we are expected to ...

They are key contributors to student educational success, yet relatively few receive adequate professional development, write Anna Conway and Thomas J. Tobin. Some college and university adjunct ...

Many GSAS students teach undergraduates during their time at Brandeis. Teaching Fellow (TF): This is a PhD student serving as the instructor of record for a course. TFs are union-eligible positions ...

The Trump administration canceled $600 million in teacher training grants last year, forcing educator programs across the ...

Brandeis’ Department of Student Rights and Community Standards provides information about student rights and responsibilities, including those relating to academic integrity (Section 4). Their website ...

Instead of evaluating faculty based on their teaching ability, institutions often rely on scholarly output as a proxy for professional competence. These measures, while important, fail to account for ...

A recently released report has criticized the effectiveness of California’s teacher preparation programs, specifically when it comes to training new elementary school teachers in math education. Cal ...