The Center for Teaching Excellence offers several resources for teaching assistants (TAs) to help them succeed in their teaching. These resources include guides, workshops, certificate programs, and learning communities.

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Certificates

Great Teaching Certificate: TA Edition

The Great Teaching Certificate: TA Edition is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Your work as a TA in the classroom is a critical element for student success. This certificate is a time-efficient way to learn good teaching practices to support your students!

CIRTL Associate Certificate

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Associate Certificate is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Graduate students, TAs, and postdocs will define and recognize the value of the Teaching-as-Research process, and how it can be used for ongoing enhancement of learning.

Great Teaching for New Faculty Certificate

The Great Teaching for New Faculty Certificate is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Faculty in their first 3 years of teaching will discover university resources, identify instructors you can turn to for instructional strategies and advice, and create a great learning experience for your students.

Great Teaching Certificate

The Great Teaching Certificate is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Explore great teaching strategies and discover tips and tricks from other UF instructors by attending workshops, conferences, and more!

Great Online Teaching Certificate

The Great Online Teaching Certificate is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. This certificate is designed to save you time with practical suggestions and planning resources for your online course development.

Great Teaching Using Universal Design Certificate

The Great Teaching Using Universal Design Certificate is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. This certificate will help you reach a diverse group of students and considers issues of multiculturalism, gender identity, access and disability, and more.

Global Teaching and Learning Certificate

The Global Teaching and Learning Certificate is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. This certificate will help you internationalize your teaching at home and abroad.

Fundamentals of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Certificate

The Fundamentals of IDEA Certificate is part of the Passport to Great Teaching program offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. This certificate provides a foundation of IDEA principals in an effort to build a culture that minimizes bias, recognizes and addresses systemic inequities so all students, faculty, and staff can thrive.

Workshops

Be a Great Online or Hybrid TA

In this asynchronous workshop, you will learn about teaching best practices and campus resources that will help you get up to speed quickly.

TA Principles & Strategies

Your work as a TA in the classroom is a critical element for student success. Learn good teaching practices to support your students!

First Year Faculty Teaching Academy

The Center for Teaching Excellence offers the First Year Faculty Teaching Academy (FYFTA) workshop series throughout the year. This series is designed for faculty in their first few years of teaching at UF. Learn how to create a great learning experience for your students while saving time and frustration.

Great Online Course Series

The Great Online Course workshop series is designed to save you time with practical suggestions and planning resources for your online course development.

Workshops Offered Through the Center for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching Excellence works to keep faculty, staff, TAs, and graduate students connected and informed. Browse through our calendar to find workshops and events that pique your interest.

Workshops Offered Through CIRTL

The CIRTL network offers courses, events, resources, and certification for graduate students, TAs, and postdocs. CIRTL was founded in 2003 to help develop faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices that benefit diverse learners, especially in STEM.

Learning Communities

Preparing Future Faculty

Preparing Future Faculty is a mentoring program for doctoral, postdoc, and terminal masters students. Learn about faculty roles, tenure and promotion, interviews and hiring, effective teaching and learning practices, and more!

Faculty Learning Communities

Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) are peer-led groups of faculty, staff, and graduate students who engage in an active, collaborative, year–long program structured to provide encouragement, support, and reflection. New FLCs are added each academic year.

Conferences

TA Orientation

TA Orientation covers the formal requirements for being a teaching assistant at the University of Florida, along with information and training on confidentiality of student records, classroom challenges, disability accommodations, and sexual harassment prevention.

Interface Teaching Conference

Interface is an opportunity to recognize innovative faculty, provide a forum for professors to share their work with other disciplines and foster interdisciplinary collaborations on future projects.

Team-Based Learning Workshop

The UF Team-Based Learning (TBL) Workshop is designed for educators who are interested in implementing a new learning method into their classrooms – in person or online. This event will teach educators how to elevate classrooms in any field using a flipped-classroom learning method.

Resources

TA Handbook

The TA Handbook helps TAs navigate their responsibilities and learn about teaching resources available to them. The TA role is likely to be a part of the educational experience of many graduate students during some part of their professional training. The teaching assistant’s role as an instructor is a somewhat unusual one because few TAs receive any formal training in the skills of teaching.

UF Instructor Guide

This collection of information and resources will give you details about teaching at UF in one location.

CTE Resource Library

The CTE Resource Library was built to help support your teaching and optimize student learning.

Teaching Beyond the Podium Podcast Series

Get inspired by members of the UF community! Learn useful tips and strategies for creating a quality learning experience.