Many undergraduate students will experience being taught by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs); therefore, focusing on GTA pedagogy is in the best interest of the students and university as a whole. Based on a Masters of Arts in Teaching program, a 5-week intensive summer training session for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…

Summarizes teaching assistant training programs conducted in 50 graduate schools. Indicates that mose institutions see the teaching assistant as a means of providing undergraduate instruction and of providing financial support for graduate students, not as a means of training future college teachers. (CC)

Describes a doctoral internship program that involves the interns in the teaching of a college biology course which uses electronic response and audiotutorial modes of instruction. Outlines the duties of first, second, and third year interns and states the advantages of such a program. (GS)