Teaching is an important but often challenging activity for graduate students. In the role of graduate teaching assistants (GTA), they impact the learning experience of undergraduate students, but they also gain a set of knowledge and skills beyond what they learn in class or through research. Typical duties for GTAs vary and can range from conducting problem solving sessions, creating homework solutions, grading, and holding office hours. GTAs may also find themselves working within pedagogically sophisticated learning environments such as working with small groups of students in a Studio setting, as we have recently reported. Within these spaces GTAs are asked to "facilitate" student learning. By "facilitate" we mean that they are encouraged to shift activity, as much as possible, away from directly showing students how to do their work to asking students questions, eliciting their thinking, and encouraging group interactions.
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