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The TA Training Program provides several videos for check-out to TAs and Instructors at UCLA. All videos are available for check-out in 160 Powell. Please contact the TA Coordinator or the Technology TA Coordinator to reserve a video and arrange a pickup time. Additionally, we welcome suggestions for new videos to add to our library and updated reviews from UCLA TAs.
Note that these tapes sometimes have long trailers at the beginning of
the film so viewers should plan some extra time before class to get the tape
queued properly so that students don't have to wait.
A Better Way
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Earthquake 101 with a Postscript to the 1994 Northridge Quake (19
min)
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Led by a cartoon character named Roy, who has UCLA's Royce Hall for a head,
this video gives tips for how to prepare for and survive an
Earthquake. Despite its somewhat campy style, this tape gives good
tips for how to prepare for and survive an earthquake and it provides some
startling video of damage done to UCLA buildings by the Northridge
earthquake in 1994.
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Enhancing and Evaluating College Teaching
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Mastery Teaching: Discussion Modules Vol. 1 & 2
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Outside the Classroom, or See Me During My Office Hour
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Peer Consulting for Teacher Development and Conflict Resolution
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Race in the Classroom: The Multiplicity of Experience (19 min.)
Description:
This video provides five vignettes illustrating classroom seminars where
race is an issue in several different ways. Examples range from the obvious
(class discusses race heatedly) to subtle subconscious attitudes - the
teacher excuses a students lack of participation because her ethnicity
suggests she “was brought up that way.” Generally, this tape addresses
issues such as affirmative action, tokenism, lack of participation, and
refusal to acknowledge racism.
Reviewer Rating (1= avoid, 5= highly recommend): 3
Reviewer's Department: History
Reviewer Comments:
Gives good examples of different ways race can be an issue, but does not
offer specific tools and ideas for discussion. Can be useful but instructor
will have to structure discussion on his/her own.
Sexual Harassment: The Wrong Idea (20 min.)
Description:
On this tape you will find vignettes that portray events that may be
interpreted as sexual harassment in the classroom. The purpose of the
tape is to highlight issues for class discussion.
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Supervision Scenes: Identifying Keys to Success
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The TA at UCLA
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Teaching Assistant Communication Strategies
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Teaching in America: A Guide for International Faculty ( 38 min. )
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First, many teaching fellows with various cultural backgrounds share their
experiences one impression about the American classroom as well as their
surprises and wonders they’ve experienced while teaching there as teaching
fellows. Then, the same group of teaching fellows provide advice and
tips to international teaching staff. Topics include:
1) How to engage students into class discussions.
2) How to make oneself accessible to students.
3) How to cope with the language problems.
4) How to prepare for teaching.
5) How to keep class discussions alive.
6) Other problems international TA’s may encounter in their
teaching environments. (grading, discrimination).
Reviewer Rating (1= avoid, 5= highly recommend): 5
Reviewer's Department: Japanese
Reviewer's Comments:
I really enjoyed listening to various reactions that the TF in the video
showed through their interviews. They brought up issues which all
international TA’s would benefit by knowing. (American students’ informality
is not equal to lack of seriousness and disrespect to teachers; American
students learn and remember more when they actively participate in class
discussions rather than in lectures; American students do not expect
international TF’s to behave like American teachers.) Also some of the tips
directly apply to any teaching setting (language problems can be overcome by
use of visual aids, nonverbal cues, facial expressions, enthusiasm in
teaching and content knowledge overrides language problems.)
The University Lectures: Four Teaching Styles ( 20 min.)
Description:
This video shows four different teaching styles: The Formalist
(cold, formal, and unfriendly), The Buddy (overly friendly, disorganized) ,
The Disciplinarian (condescending, poor interaction with students), and The
Interactor (reviews previous material, interacts well, related material to
real life.)
Reviewer Rating (1= avoid, 5= highly recommend): 5
Reviewer's Department: History
Reviewer's Comments:
The first three styles have some positive characteristics as well as
negative ones. Although clearly the fourth style (Interactor) is supposed to
be the ideal. This video could be used to stimulate discussion on effective
teaching techniques and characteristics as well as poor techniques and
styles, and is amusing as well.
What Students Want: Teaching From a Student's Perspective (24
min.)
Description:
Harvard University Center for learning interviews 40 undergraduate
students, asking them what they appreciate and dislike in the
classroom. Remarks are directed to both the professors and teaching
fellows. The role of the teaching fellow is highlighted.
Reviewer Rating (1= avoid, 5= highly recommend): 5
Reviewer's Department: French
Reviewer's Comments:
The suggestions cover all areas of teaching from grading comments to class
organization—in a very loose effective structure. (The only weak point I
would say is the difficulty of organizing interviews such as these). Though
sometimes obvious or even cliché, I think that all of the comments are
relevant, interesting and useful. Hearing from them from the students
directly is powerful.
