1 for each recommendation, the appropriate unit responsible for implementing the recommendation is indicated 2. That instructors in each department invite TAs to participate in discussions and, where appropriate, decisions regarding course structure, administration and evaluation. That graduate students who take major responsibility for a course should have demonstrated competence in teaching. This may be achieved, for example, by preparing and delivering lectures in a similar course supervised by a faculty member or by completing a course in teaching and learning in higher education such as is proposed in Recommendation 7. That faculty supervisors be assigned to graduate students who have major responsibility for a course and who are teaching the course for the first time.
Supervisors are responsible for providing feedback to the students about their teaching performance.
Enrolment would normally be limited to doctoral students who have passed their comprehensive examinations. That the compensation received by a graduate student for taking the major responsibility for teaching a course offered for credit at Queen's and the accounts under which such teaching is recorded be reviewed at both the department and faculty levels. That the university explore appropriate mechanisms for evaluating and developing the language skills, both oral and written, of students in relation to the requirements associated with teaching assistantships in different programs within the university. Development of programs in this area should be in conjunction with current programs in the School of English. That each department develop a strategy for annual orientation sessions for TAs, using the resources of the Instructional Development Centre where appropriate.