QuickStart - Postgraduate Teaching Assistant or Part time lecturer

You might find the following resources useful:

ProDAIT resources:

• Subject specific resources that I can use in my teaching

• Peer observation of teaching

• FAQs about aspects of my teaching

• Ways to record my teaching experience and development work

Other online resources:

• Select the 'Part time teachers' search option from the HE Academy's online Resources web page

• Read about Teaching Circles as a response to the staff development needs of Part-time Teachers in Higher Education (report)

• Download modules from a Training Programme for Developing Postgraduates' Teaching Skills in the Sciences (includes modules on generic skills such as giving presentations, so worth looking at even if you are not a science teacher)

• Work through online modules for the Development of Postgraduate and Language Assistants (modern language teachers)

For UK practitioners:

• Joining the Higher Education Academy (Associate membership)

Institutional support:

• Check what support your own institution provides for PGTAs and part-time teaching staff (see the ProDAIT partners box on the right)