Each year the Center for the Advancement of Teaching’s TA Training Program organizes our annual TA Conference, designed to provide pedagogical training and resource information for new, continuing, and even aspiring teaching assistants. Currently in its 47th year, this event is open to all graduate students and post-docs interested in teaching, whether you will be teaching during the upcoming school year or not.

This year, recognizing a heightened need for support in the shift to remote learning, the annual TA Conference will focus on best practices for remote teaching. We are offering more than 80 participatory workshops via Zoom across two weeks to accommodate participants’ schedules and limit workshop group size. Attendees will be able to select sessions from a variety of specialized workshops and expert panels on topics ranging from creating inclusive classrooms remotely to best practices in remote assessments. Attendees will also have access to our plenary lecture by expert faculty, our panel of Distinguished Teaching Award-winning faculty and teaching assistants, and the opportunity to connect with fellow graduate students and a variety of resources across campus.

In addition to workshops, you will also have access to a selection of tech support services, open office hours, and a full virtual resource fair where you can visit with staff from more than 40 campus resource services. Our goal is to help you feel confident and prepared for that first Zoom class!

Join us to: 

• Build a foundational toolkit for remote teaching, including inclusive teaching practices, active learning strategies, and assessment best practices
• Practice pedagogical strategies for responding to challenging situations in the moment
• Prepare your section syllabus, technology, and techniques for the first day of class 
• Learn best practices from experienced TAs and professors 
• Get tips for leading dynamic discussion sections remotely
• Network with graduate students and faculty across UCLA
• And more!

To secure conference sessions and prevent unwanted intrusions in our workshops, registration and access to the Zoom links for the workshops is provided via CCLE, UCLA’s learning management system (LMS). Participants must have a UCLA logon ID in order to register and attend. We are unable to accommodate guests at this time.

Since things are a little different this year, please view this introduction video to how to use our CCLE site to register for the conference, view your schedule, and access the zoom links and workshop materials: