Section: Teaching Assistants
Important Note: The Center for Excellence in Teaching does not administer teaching assistant positions at USC. If you are looking for a TA position, please contact your department's graduate student services coordniator for more information.
Recent Teaching Assistant Fellow Events
CET TAFs are encouraged to drive CET programming that deals directly with the learning and teaching issues facing teaching assistants and undergraduate education at USC.
TA Modules
Short, video-based modules covering a varetiy of topics critical for success as a USC Teaching Assistant:
University-Wide TA Training
TA Training is MANDATORY for all new TAs at USC. CET provides a one-day training program biannually before each semester utilized by schools and departments that do not provide an in-house training program. Please consult your department to find out if you need to attend CET's TA Training sessions.
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ITA Language Institute
The International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Language Institute is a week-long collaborative program in early August between CET and Dornsife's American Language Institute (ALI). Designed to alculturate and welcome new ITAs to USC, the Institute is provided at no cost to the students. The ITA Language Institute does NOT replace TA Training.
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Professional Development
During the year, CET provides many events and opportunities for USC Teaching Assistants to gain professional development for academic careers.
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CET TA WIKI
The CET TA Wiki is and ongoing resource developed by CET Teaching Assistant Fellows that contains vast amounts of information, views and personal experience regarding all facets of being a TA from classroom management to interacting with the professor and students to teaching techniques and more.
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Teaching and Learning
During the year, CET provides many events and opportunities for USC Teaching Assistants to improve their teaching and learning skills and engage in discussions on pedagogy.
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More Resources
2012-2013 Teaching Assistant Fellows
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Call for New CET Teaching Assistant Fellows (TAFs)
TAF Application
The Teaching Assistant Fellows (TA Fellows) program for outstanding USC TAs is a two-fold program which:
- Primarily produces TA training materials used to enhance TA instruction across the university. TA Fellows work collaboratively combining their personal teaching expertise with research on best practices to create cutting-edge materials to be used by teaching assistants.
- Secondarily the TA Fellows program provides professional development for the TA Fellows through monthly workshops.
TA Fellows receive advanced training in the modern theory and practice of pedagogy from CET Fellows and other experts at USC.
Past TAFs:
2011-2012 Teaching Assistant Fellows
| Ray Calnan | Price PPD |
| Juvenal Cortes | International Relations |
| Chris Corzette | Molecular Biology |
| Eric Hamilton | International Relations | John Kwak | Philosophy |
| Molly Brightman | Preventive Medicine |
| David Li | Linguistics |
| Bryce Lowery | SPPD |
| Nimna Ranatunga | Molecular Biology |
| Edson Rodriguez | Sociology |
| Travis Smith | Engineering |
| Anna Skylar | Molecular and Computational Biology |
| Luman Wang | History |
2010-2011 Teaching Assistant Fellows
| Chris Corzette | Molecular Biology |
| Becky Courter | Mathematics |
| Eric Hamilton | international Relations | Gretchen Heidemann | Biokinesiology |
| Chera Kee | Critical Studies |
| David Li | Linguistics |
| Bryce Lowery | SPPD |
| Patrick Muchmore | Mathematics |
| Kavya Ramkumar | Pharmacology and Pharmalogocal Sciences |
| Nimna Ranatunga | Molecular Biology |
| Edson Rodriguez | Sociology |
| Anna Skylar | Molecular and Computational Biology |
| Mona Sobhani | Neuroscience |
| Aaron Warren | Biology | Jeanine Yutani | Political Science and International Relations |
2009-2010 Teaching Assistant Fellows
| Gurveen Chopra | Psychology |
| Glenn Fox | Neuroscience |
| Gretchen Heidemann | Biokinesiology |
| Shailesh Kantak | Biokinesiology |
| Min Kim | Marshall |
| Su Jin Lee | Geography |
| Pao Chen Li | Biological Sciences |
| Rudy Melson | Public Health |
| Russell Newman | Annenberg |
| Erica Pitsch | Biokinesiology |
| Kavya Ramkumar | Pharmacology |
| Ann Reyes Robbins | Social Work |
| Edson Rodriguez | Sociology |
| Zlatina Sandalska | Slavic Languages & Literature |
| Robert Shanklin | Philosophy |
| Anna Skylar | Molecular and Computational Biology |
| Mona Sobhani | Biological Sciences |
| Seshadri Tirunillai | Marketing |
| Claudia Toledo-Corral | Preventive Medicine |
| William Yeoh | Engineering |
| Jeanine Yutani | Political Science and International Relations |
2008-2009 Teaching Assistant Fellows
| Michelle Babcock | French |
| Richard Brown | Historical Musicology |
| Jerry Chih-Yuan Sun | Education, Psychology, and Technology |
| Gurveen Chopra | Psychology |
| Laurence Clerfeuille | French |
| Abbie Ferris | Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy |
| Ginger Hazen | Neuroscience |
| Mehdi Majbouri | Economics |
| Michal Temkin Martinez | Linguistics and Spanish |
| Rudy Melson | Public Health |
| Brijesh Pinto | Economics |
| Erica Pitsch | Biokinesiology |
| Ann Reyes Robbins | Social Work |
| Meghann Ribbens | Molecular Biology |
| Oana Sabo | Comparative Literature |
| Robert Shanklin | Philosophy |
| Anna Skylar | Molecular and Computational Biology |
| Seshadri Tirunillai | Marketing |
| Claudia Toledo-Corral | Preventive Medicine |
| Jeanine Yutani | Political Science and International Relations |
2007-2008 Teaching Assistant Fellows
| Michelle Babcock | French |
| Carol Brown | Psychology |
| Gurveen Chopra | Psychology |
| Laurence Clerfeuille | French |
| Mark Elliot | Policy Planning and Development |
| Shawn Farrokhi | Biokinesiology |
| Abbie Ferris | Biokinesiology |
| Trish George | Psychology |
| Ginger Hazen | Neuroscience |
| Heather Heather | Annenberg |
| Christina Law | Gerontology |
| Jiajuan Liu | Neuroscience |
| Mehdi Majbouri | Economics |
| Michal Martinez | Linguistics |
| Christina Neuner | Neurosciences |
| Poorni Otillingam | Psychology |
| Urvi Patel | Psychology |
| Gregory Placencia | Industrial and Systems Engineering |
| Carrie Anne Platt | Annenberg |
| Steven Rafferty | Annenberg |
| Arjun Rihan | Cinema |
| Jaclyn Ronquillo-Adachi | Psychology |
| Travers Scott | Annenberg |
| Don Waisanen | Annenberg |
| Jonathan Weil | Philosophy |
| Jeanine Yutani | East Asian Studies |
| Bilal Zafar | Computer Engineering |
2006-2007 Teaching Assistant Fellows
| Michelle Babcock | French |
| Amy Below | Politics and International Relations |
| Lindsey Chen | Linguistics |
| Laurence Clerfeuille | French |
| Luke Daniels | Neuroscience |
| Christina Gray | International Relations |
| Yawn Li | Social Work |
| Nadia Marinova | Political Science |
| Marie Ng | Quantitative Psychology |
| Greg Placencia | Industrial and Systems Engineering |
| David Rands | Jonathan Weil |
| Meghann Ribbens | Molecular Biology |
| Jaclyn Ronquillo | Social Psychology |
| Rebecca Sadun | Medicine/Pathology |
| Noah Schwartz | Psychology |
| Matthew Shapiro | Political Economy and Public Policy |
| Ioana Uricaru | Critical Studies |
| Bilal Zafar | Computer Engineering |
| Anke Zimmerman | Economics |