Teasing apart the impacts of curriculum and professional development on teaching assistants' teaching practices.

ABSTRACT: Teaching assistants (TAs) often lead courses using curricula they did not design. Therefore, examining how curriculum and professional development (PD) interact to influence TAs' teaching practices is critical. This study describes the effects of a curriculum and PD intervention in two contexts: when TAs are teaching curriculum that is explicitly linked to PD, and when teaching curriculum that is not linked to PD. The Intervention curriculum featured structured opportunities for reform-oriented teaching practices. The Intervention PD was situated in the context of these specific curriculum activities and modelled the desired teaching practices. TAs that participated in the intervention implemented more student-centered teaching practices than TAs that did not participate in the interventio

SUBMITTER: Hicks J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8827484 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature