International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Program

Additional Information for International TAs

• Steps to ITA Clearance

Resources

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (with audio files)
• Phonetics: The Sounds of Spoken Language
• Pronunciation site at Okanagan University
• Idiom Connection
• Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab (a free, extensive collection of audio exercises to work on your listening comprehension and learn new vocabulary)
• The online grammar guide
• Avoiding Plagiarism from the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
• Principles of Intercultural Communication from Wikipedia
• Teaching in the U.S. Classroom (from Stanford University’s “Tomorrow’s Professor”)
• International Teaching Assistant Handbook (courtesy University of California, Santa Barbara)
• A collection of online documents from the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University:
  • Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom
  • Some Different Types of Questioning
  • Techniques for Responding
  • Ten Strategies for Effective Discussion Leading