{"id":19312,"date":"2016-11-29T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=19312"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:01","slug":"build-ideal-science-lab-ta-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2016\/build-ideal-science-lab-ta-like\/","title":{"rendered":"If you could build the ideal science lab TA, what would they be like?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        If you could build the ideal science lab TA, what would they be like?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In an undergraduate science lab, teaching assistants are the direct point of contact for learning support for students, and as such they can have an immediate and significant impact on the student learning experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you could build the ideal science laboratory TA, what qualities and skills would they have? How and where could they get and develop these skills?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Dec. 14, join Claudia Buttera, a laboratory coordinator from the Department of Biology, in a discussion on what makes a great lab TA and how we can improve the experience both for the TAs and for the students they serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session runs from 12-1:30 p.m. in room 422 Dunton Tower. Space is limited, so please <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/cu_event\/welcome-classroom-build-ideal-science-lab-ta-like-2\/\">register here<\/a> in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an undergraduate science lab, teaching assistants are the direct point of contact for learning support for students, and as such they can have an immediate and significant impact on the student learning experience. If you could build the ideal science laboratory TA, what qualities and skills would they have? How and where could they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40259,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions\/40259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}