(Graduate) Teaching Assistants at MBS
Recruitment, Selection, Training and Support
For academic year 2015/6
John Pal ([email protected])
Programme Director and TA Academic Coordinator
Michelle Kipling ([email protected])
TA PSS Coordinator
A. I want to work as an academic
when I finish my PhD
B. I want to develop new skills that will
be of use in my personal
development
What is a GTA?
Why bother becoming a GTA?
The Process – from recruitment to payment
MBS
RECRUITMENT
TO TA POOL
HR Services
HR LOG
PAPERWORK
Apr-May
SELECTION BY CC
Jun-Aug
APPROVAL BY
DIVISION
Faculty
Training
1hr webinar
Jun-Aug
ALLOCATION
LOGGED
Sept/ Jan
PAYMENT
Oct, Nov, Dec
Feb, Mar, Apr
Faculty Online
Modules
6 hours
Sept
LETTER OF
INTENT POSTED
Sept
HR REPORT TO
PAYROLL
MBS 3 day
Training
Course
Sept/
Jan
Note: Supervisor approval is a mandatory requirement to teach
Faculty 2 hour
Workshop
Useful Information
Manchester Business School:
• Key personnel
• Recruitment Process
• Selection Process
• Training
• Peer Support
• Course Coordinator Support
• Bursary Awards
• Annual Awards
Faculty
• The role of a Teaching Assistant
• Teaching Resources
• HR and Payroll Requirements
When can I teach?
• Normally from Year 2 of your PhD Programme.
• First year students are allowed to teach, on the basis of the criteria
set out in the School policy approved in April 2012:
– They have previous experience - which helps address the issue of lack of time for
training to be undertaken - especially if there is a teaching need in semester 1;
and
– There is a shortage of other suitable teachers, i.e. a specific case needs to be
made that there is no one else suitable; and
– An agreed maximum number of hours is set to avoid overload; and
– There is a clear understanding that students should not miss their research
training classes, nor do they have grounds to request extensions to coursework
submission, end of year reviews, etc; and
– They have their supervisor support
To teach in MBS you must
have:
• Completed the Faculty of
Humanities online training
programme
• Completed the online
training log book that
accompanies the online
training (see section 8.8 of
the handbook)
• Participated in the Faculty
of Humanities Webinar
about being a TA
• Attended the Faculty
workshop for TAs
• Attended the MBS training
for TAs
In addition to apply for AHEA
status you also need to have:
• Reflected on the MBS
training by completing the
relevant log book (see
section 8.4 of the
handbook)
• Undertaken and reflected
on seven hours of teaching
(see 8.3)
• Had an observation of
teaching by a course coordinator (see 8.5)
• Written a 1500 word
reflective essay
What you can do as first years …..
• Review the intranet to see which courses used Teaching
Assistants last year (see previous slide)
• Make contact with the Course Co-ordinator via your Supervisor
with an expression of interest in teaching
• Contact the current Teaching Assistant to join a seminar group
to gain experience
• Join one of the regular Divisional TA Feedback Hubs where
good practice is shared
• When dates are circulated, mark your calendar for the launch of
the recruitment and training for 2016/17. Faculty and MBS
training is mandatory
The TA Training Hub
•
http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/humnet/our-services/teaching-andlearning/tahub/
Our aim is…..
To provide students
with an experience we
would be happy to have
engaged in ourselves.