Teaching Resources
OFFICE OF INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (OID)
Audio Visual Services: Audio
Visual Services (AVS) provides equipment, training, and technicians for
regularly scheduled classes, conferences and events. This section of the OID
website will allow you to find out what equipment is already installed in
your classroom, access online tutorials for how to use classroom technology,
and order additional equipment.
Instructional Media Collections and Services (IMCS): IMCS, located in Powell Library, houses a collection of over 8,000 videotapes, laserdiscs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, films and slide/tape modules. Media in the collection can be viewed by your students in the Instructional Media Lab, checked out for classroom use, or digitized and added to your course website so students can access media from home.
TA
Conference: OID hosts an annual campuswide Teaching Assistant
conference. Topics such as evaluating students, meeting your class for the
first time, motivating students, and conducting office hours are addressed
through a variety of workshops.
TA Mini-Grants: OID offer TA mini-grants that can used for such things as
guest speaker honoraria, field trips, and instructional media. TAs may apply
for mini-grants in amounts up to $250 per academic year. Application forms
are available at the OID office as well as through the Women’s Studies
office.
teach2write: The teach2write
website was designed to help instructors, in particular TAs, prepare
themselves to become more effective in teaching writing to UCLA students.
The website contains valuable information on clarifying writing assignments
for your students, giving your students feedback on their writing, grading,
dealing with plagiarism, etc. The website also contains a wealth of useful
handouts to assist you with your teaching.
Test Scoring
Services: Assists instructors by grading scantron-based exams and
generating grade reports. If you are a TA, you may be asked by the
instructor to facilitate the grading process by making an appointment with
Test Scoring Services, dropping off exams, and picking up graded exams.
SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTING (SSC): SSC assists students, staff, and
faculty within the Social Sciences Division with computing needs. SSC hosts
and manages class web sites and provides an array of resources for meeting
the online needs of students and faculty. Through class websites,
instructors can post the course syllabus, announcements, readings, and even
utilize discussion boards. In addition to general course websites, TAs can
create their own websites for their discussion sections. The ClassWeb
software is easy to use and requires no prior web experience.
SSC Class websites
ClassWeb
tutorials
ClassWeb for TAs
LIBRARY RESOURCES
Information Literacy
Resources for Faculty and TAs: Check out the wide range of services
available for you and your students.
Course Reserves:
Information on how to place materials on reserve through campus libraries.
Preventing Plagiarism:
Helpful resources for instructors on how to prevent, detect, and handle
plagiarism.
STUDENT SERVICES
Covel Tutorials:
Located in the Covel Commons, Covel Tutorials provides a variety of tutoring
services to students. The Composition Lab is staffed by trained
undergraduate peer tutors and assists students at any stage of the writing
process, from generating and organizing ideas to polishing final drafts.
They can also help students strengthen essay exam skills and improve reading
comprehension and efficiency. Covel Tutorials also offers ESL tutoring.
Tutoring for both the Composition Lab and ESL is available via appointment
or on a limited drop-in basis.
Student Psychological
Services - Information for Faculty and Staff: As a TA or an instructor,
it is important to be familiar with the psychological resources that are
available to the student population at UCLA. This site explains the services
that are available to students, how to recognize a student in distress, and
how to refer a student to psychological services. The LGBT Center and the
Center for Women and Men also provide counseling services.
Teaching
Students with Disabilities: A guide for faculty from the Office for
Students with Disabilities. Contains helpful information on campus resources
available to students with disabilities and how you, as an instructor, can
best utilize these resources on behalf of your student.
UCLA Sexual
Harassment Prevention Office: Website contains information on laws
governing sexual harassment, UCLA policy, advice for staff and faculty, and
resources available to the UCLA community.
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