For Graduate Instructors & Teaching Assistants

This page is intended to help teaching assistants, graduate students and academic instructors of all varieties. Teaching tools are developed from various places, but I do my best to credit their sources if they do not belong to only me. There are links here that send you to other teaching sites as well. Happy Teaching!

Online Teaching Tools

Sample Syllabi

SOC160 Sample Syllabus (Instructor + TA)
SOC210 Sample Syllabus (Writing Intensive TA)
SOC 210 Sample Syllabus 2 (Writing Intensive TA)
SOC 496/LS 400: Law, Sexuality & Society Syllabus (Instructor)
LS 422/GWS 422: Women and Law Syllabus (Instructor)

Teaching Tools

UW Sociology TA Orientation Presentation Fall 2020
Introduction to TA Training (Prepared for UW Madison 2019)
Brave Spaces Handout (Arao & Clemens 2008)
Example of Draft Review Policy
Reading a Research Article Quickly and Efficiently (Prevention Research Center at Case Western University)
Reaching out to your Professor Handout (Kent State University, Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
Teaching Sociologically Materials (ASA, TRAILS and Online Resources)
Teaching Gender

TRAILS

All ASA members have free access to TRAILS, an online peer reviewed library of high quality teaching resources. Resource types include syllabi, class activities, assignments, lectures, and more. Submitting resources for publication in TRAILS provides evidence of teaching excellence for promotion and tenure. Subscriptions are available for non-members.

Undergraduate Assistants