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标题：Training Teaching Assistants to be Coaches: A Sustainable Approach
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作者：Alexandros Dimopoulos ; Eric Wilson ; Kush Bubbar 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2018
DOI：10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13016
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：More is being asked of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) as engineering education places an increased emphasis on teamwork and design. GTAs directly influence undergraduate learning. How they approach their role can determine if that influence is positive or negative. Exerting a positive influence requires GTAs to encourage positive group dynamics, foster self-directed learning, and support individual and team innovation. In other words, the role of a GTA is closer to that of a coach than to a teacher or a mentor. Unfortunately, most GTAs lack experience and skill in coaching and facilitation. To help shift our GTAs’ perspectives and help them to think, act, and view themselves as coaches, we have developed a coaching and facilitation training workshop. We have now offered this workshop for a second year. The second offering includes a number of important updates which were driven by three motivations: 1) improved educational effectiveness, 2) sustainability, and 3) dissemination. Important changes include a new activity to introduce the use of open-ended questioning and a workbook which supports the workshop activities and acts as a reference source which participants can consult after the workshop. We have also created a facilitators’ guide so that the workshop may be delivered by facilitators other than the authors. All workshop materials have been released under a Creative Commons license to facilitate dissemination.