tailieunhanh - Space of teaching support and innovation: Three years of collaborative work

The teaching assistants in the School of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona are a group of students who provide support to the teaching staf. Afer three years, collaboratve work has proven to be an efectve method for the executon of the teaching assistants’ responsibilites. The results of two satsfacton surveys, one answered by the teaching staf and another by the teaching assistants, are analysed in this paper. | Journal of Technology and Science Education SPACE FOR TEACHING SUPPORT AND INNOVATION: THREE YEARS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK Gisela R. Hansen, Jaume F. Lalanza, Ivan Sibilla, Juan Muñoz Autonomous University of Barcelona. School of Psychology. Space for Teaching Support and Innovaton Spain , jaumeferr@, , Received November 2013 Accepted April 2014 Abstract The teaching assistants in the School of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona are a group of students who provide support to the teaching staf. Afer three years, collaboratve work has proven to be an efectve method for the executon of the teaching assistants’ responsibilites. The results of two satsfacton surveys, one answered by the teaching staf and another by the teaching assistants, are analysed in this paper. Keywords – Collaboratve work, Innovaton, Teaching, Students, Assistance, Teacher transfer. ---------- 1 INTRODUCTION The 2012-2013 academic year was the third year that the School of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) utlized teaching assistants (TAs from now on). These TAs provide support to the teaching staf through a collaboratve working method, which is an innovatve approach and diferentates them from the rest of the TAs at the university. The informal feedback received by the teaching staf over these three years seems to refect the efcacy of this approach. This artcle seeks to confrm and elaborate on this point. In order to achieve this objectve we used the following methodology: 1) Survey both teaching staf and TAs (using one survey for the teaching staf and a diferent survey for the TAs). 2) Carry out comparatve analysis of the results of the current teaching staf survey and another one handed out the year before (2011-2012). Who are the TAs and what do they do? The TAs at the UAB’s School of Psychology are a team of twelve graduate and post .