The Division of Academic Affairs (DAA), Core Education, and the Center for Teaching and Learning have assembled guidance for the important role of GTAs in the successful implementation of Core Education. See details specific to the use of GTAs in DPO teaching below and visit the Core Education website for complete details for the use of GTAs across Core Education.
- Units that assign GTAs to teach Core Education courses in any category are responsible for ensuring enough advanced scheduling notice for the GTAs to complete all required training in advance of the term they are scheduled to teach a Core Ed course. In particular, GTAs shoudl not be assigned to teach a Difference, Power, and Oppression (DPO) course for the first term of their employment to allow enough time to complete necessary training.
- Units that assign GTAs to teach Core Education courses in categories that have required training must ensure the weekly workload of the GTA is offset to accommodate the required training during the training week (for Teaching in Core, Seeking Solutions or Transitions) or weekly throughout the training term (DPO-F alternate option).
- We strongly recommend that GTAs teaching in any level of DPO take the 3-credit hour course GRAD 542: The Inclusive Classroom, which fulfills the traingin requirements for both DPO-F (DPO-Foundations) and DPO-A (DPO-Advanced) courses (this includes GTAs who will be assisting instructors of record, serving as instructors of record, and recitation instructors).
- For cases in which taking the 3-credit hour course (GRAD 542) is not possible, once per year the DPO Program offers an alternate format of training across 6 sessions for an anticipated total of 18 hours of training, and this will fulfill the requirement for GTAs to teach DPO-F courses. These sessions will be offered in person on the Corvallis campus (see schedule below). We discourage units from assigning GTAs to teach DPO-A courses, and should a need arise to place a GTA in a DPO-A course, that GTA must complete the GRAD 542 3-credit hour course training.
DPO GTA Workshop Series (Alternate to GRAD 542)
For those cases in which taking the 3-credit hour course (GRAD 542) is not possible, once per year the DPO Program will offer the DPO GTA Workshop Series. The Workshop Series consisst of 6, 3-hour sessions (see schedule below) that will take place in-person at the Corvallis campus and GTAs will be expected to complete readings and reflections outside of the workshop sessions.