CONTACT  INFO
The course meets on six Tuesdays (see schedule below), from 3:30 - 5:20, in Smith Hall 107.  The instructor is Professor JW Harrington, whose office is in 408 Smith Hall, and who can be reached with an e-mail to jwh@u.washington.edu (to ask a question or arrange a meeting).  Lead Teaching Assistant Matt Sothern will facitate discussions.

OBJECTIVES
The course objectives are to:

• provide a time and place for teaching assistants to share insights and information;
• focus on particular, important, practical elements of teaching -- especially those relevant to graduate teaching assistants in Geography, OR
• engage in fundamental ideas, arguments, and critiques of pedagogy;  and
• develop a sense of critical self-awareness in each participant's teaching practices.

There is one required textbook/resource:  Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis (San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.  I've placed two copies of the book in the Geography Commons, 411 Smith Hall.  In addition, several graduate students in the Department have copies.

Because this course is required annually for graduate teaching assistants in Geography, there are (informally) two sections of the course:  Section A for first- and second-year TAs, and Section B (led by Matt Sothern) for more experienced TAs.

GRADING
This one-credit course is graded with only "Credit" or "No Credit."  Course credit will be given to any registered student who attends all of the scheduled meetings (with some possibility of prior excuse of one session), or who completes one of the alternative assignments above.

SCHEDULE