Spring 2003

Thanks to Recent Contributors

In addition to the support enabling the TRC to publish this newsletter and funding for the Teaching Portfolio Workshop noted elsewhere, further gifts have enabled the Teaching Resource Center to continue or enhance TRC programs and services:
Harry E. Teasley, Jr., through his family foundation, provided funding to support two programs:

• Tomorrow's Professor Today featured a half-year series of workshops that helped graduate students make successful transitions from teaching assistant to independent instructor, designing and teaching their own courses.
  
  
• Lunch meetings for international faculty give colleagues opportunities to share ideas for working with American students, to compare experiences, and to strategize approaches to courses.

The Parents Program has provided a grant to support Writing Workshops, which improve instructors' ability to help students write better papers. Administered by the Teaching Resource Center in conjunction with the English Department's Writing Program, teach three-hour workshop shows instructors how to comment on student papers, how to motivate
students to improve their writing, and how to grade student writing. Workshops are generally organized for instructors in individual departments and are scheduled at the instructors' convenience.