TATEP (Teaching Assistant Training & Evaluation Program) is a Texas A&M University-mandated orientation and training session for first-time Graduate Assistants Teaching (GATs) in the coming academic year, 2009-2010. It is offered annually in late August, in the week prior to the beginning of fall semester. TATEP provides new GATs with an overview and basic guidelines for their roles and responsibilities as instructors, without overlapping with departmental training and policies. GATs include graduate students who are teaching, facilitating labs and/or grading.

The program, which includes both plenary and group sessions, typically addresses the following topics but is not limited to: university policies, procedures, and services applicable to teaching assistants and their assignments, Aggie culture and traditions; multi-cultural issues; the first day of class and other situations commonly encountered by new teaching assistants.

TATEP is designed as a one-day program for all GATs, both domestic and international. GATs will attend on either Wednesday, August 26^th or Thursday, August 27^th, depending on which college they are enrolled in. International GATs will attend an extra session at the end of each day on “Effective Communication Strategies in the US Classroom.”

If you need immediate information, please call the Center for Teaching Excellence at 845-8392 or contact Chandrika Rajagopal at crajagopal@tamu.edu .