It includes workshops on syllabus writing and grading, lecturing and leading discussions, the use of writing as a pedagogical tool, the conduct of lab sessions, and the use of new technologies. In the second stage, departments provide discipline-specific training that addresses intellectual problems and teaching strategies from the perspective of the discipline. A graduate student is under the close supervision of a faculty member who provides continuing guidance and evaluation. As an associate, the graduate student continues to receive attentive mentoring and evaluation from a faculty member. Students who demonstrate exceptional teaching ability may be eligible to apply for appointment as Dean's Teaching Fellows.
Fellows have complete responsibility for one course in each semester of the award year.
The Graduate School offers a number of these fellowships to students on a competitive basis. Excerpted from The Graduate School of Arts and Sceinces Handbook, Emory University 1998-1999, p 34.