The Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning promotes excellence in all levels of teaching at the University of Central Florida. To that end, we offer several programs for the professional development of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) at UCF. General information about becoming a GTA should be directed to Graduate Studies.
Graduate Studies and the University accrediting body require training before graduate students are permitted to work as Associates (instructors of record), Assistants, or Graders. All three levels of employment require online training, and Associates are further required to attend a single-day training session face to face (held just prior to the start of the first day of class in every semester). Click here to read more information about Associate Training and how to self-register for the online training. You must separately register at the Grad Studies website for the in-person Associate Training. Questions should be addressed to gradgta@ucf.edu.
Every semester we offer a voluntary program on teaching at the college level, open to all UCF Graduate Students. Click here for more information and to register for the upcoming semester.
Click Here to view the FCTL workbook CD.
UCF requires that the teaching-related performances of all Graduate Teaching Associates (Position Code 9183), Graduate Teaching Assistants (Position Code 9184), and Graduate Teaching Assistant-Graders (Position Code 9187) be assessed at the end of each term that the student serves as a GTA.
Departments and colleges may use any assessment tool available and gather information from any source that they determine to be relevant in order to conduct assessments of GTAs and to supplement the UCF GTA Performance Assessment Form. For example, departments may rely upon classroom visits, other informational observations, student ratings of instruction, other input from students, interviews and discussions with the GTA and other evidences of performance that are available to the department.
The Assessment Form can be accessed on the Graduate Studies website.
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Nicole Howatt
College of Business Administration
I strongly believe that teaching makes a difference. I
believe that at the root of being an effective teacher is the inherent ability
to recognize that a class is composed of individuals, each arriving with a
different background and a different set of goals, values and motivations. I must be a figure who the ...
Victoria Loerzel
College of College of Nursing
As a nurse and educator, my teaching philosophy revolves around the belief that it is my responsibility to provide nursing students with a solid foundation for safe and appropriate nursing practice. I believe students are adult learners and should be self-motivated and in charge of their own learning. However, stu...
Cynthia Hutchinson
College of Education
I am a follower of Leo Buscaglia who prefers the term
"educator" to "teacher." He explains that
"educator" comes from the Latin term, "educare," which
means to tend or support the growth of another. That is the role I hope to play
in the lives of my students.
I am careful to follow A. Bro...
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