Revisiting Your Teaching Goals

Now that you have reached the end of your first semester as a TA at U of G, it is a good time to once again reflect on the goals you set before your first day and to think about your successes and challenges over the past semester. The questions below can help you reflect on your TA experience (the first three questions below relate to questions #3 and #4 from the Making Teaching Goals module).

1. How would you describe yourself as a teacher and your approaches to teaching? Does your answer match what you wrote at the beginning of the semester? If so, how? If not, why not?

2. What were your goals for yourself as a TA for the semester? Were you successful in reaching these goals, why or why not? Did your goals change throughout the semester? What are your future teaching goals?

3. What were your goals for your students for the semester? Did your students reach these goals? How do you know?

4. Thinking about the past semester, what things would you stop doing or do differently? What would you like to start doing in future teaching roles? What worked well that you will continue to do?

Now it’s your turn! Check out the complementary activities to revisit the goals you made at the beginning of the semester and reflect on your progress at the end.