The second day of the FLTA orientation at Penn includes a variety of teaching demos done by experienced TAs and lecturers. Read more.

This session from the Penn FLTA orientation developed by Dr. Nicole Mills in French, introduces the participants to deductive and inductive approachi to teaching grammar. Read more.

The opening session of the FLTA orientation at Penn gives the participants an introduction to Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) with a brief view of methods and approaches that preceded it in the ... Read more.

Kathryn K. McMahon developed this presentation for the Graduate Student Center at Penn; it is applicable to all disciplines, not simply foreign languages. Read more.

(in English) This article describes the various activities and functions of Yale's Graduate Teaching Center (GTC). This article was actually submitted by Ruth Koizim. Read more.

In this powerpoint from the Penn FLTA orientation Dr. Kathryn K. McMahon introduces the participants to some basic principles underlying teaching the interpretive mode (particularly listening). Read more.

The FLTA orientation at Penn always includes a shock class on the first day where the participants are taught a short lesson in a language that presumably most have had no prior exposure (Thai, ... Read more.

This document is the program of the three-day orientation workshop for new teaching fellows offered every year at the end of August by the departments of modern languages at Columbia University ... Read more.

All new Foreign Language Teaching Assistants are required to attend a week-long orientation session held the last week of August before classes begin. Read more.