The Web of TPD Reform: a reflective tool for analyzing and improving teaching professional development programs for teaching assistants.

ABSTRACT: Teaching assistants (TAs) play a pivotal role in the teaching mission of higher education, but too often they are asked to do this important job without adequate teaching professional development (TPD). By receiving training in inclusive and evidence-based teaching practices, TAs can in turn help disseminate effective teaching methods for the benefit of students throughout the nation; as future faculty, TPD also better prepares TAs for their careers, helps solve longstanding problems of inclusion and retention in STEM, and reforms disciplinary educational norms through cultural evolution. Thanks to prior research and advocacy efforts, there is a growing awareness that STEM education needs to do more to help support these instructional allies in the present and to prepare them to do a more

SUBMITTER: Chouinard AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12687624 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature