- Conference Session
- Preparing Future Educators
- Collection
- 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
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Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
- Tagged Divisions
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Graduate Studies
skillsnecessary to be successful in classroom delivery. However, knowledge of pedagogy coupledwith theory provides a holistic experience for the GTAs. Learning to teach encompassespedagogy, theory and practice. In addition, the self-efficacy of the GTA is an importantcomponent of measurement of the GTAs performance. Do the GTAs believe that they areconfident and capable in their teaching practice? How does self-efficacy manifest in the GTAsteaching? The sense of efficacy is a judgment about capabilities to influence studentengagement and learning, even among those students who may be difficult to motivateā1 this canbe measured in GTA training by survey and observation. Early teaching experiences can have agreat impact on a GTAs efficacy in teaching as he