Graduate Teaching Program
Staff Information
What is the GTP?
The GTP is a semester program of teaching support and development for
PhD student tutors and demonstrators
at the ANU. The GTP
draws on the expertise of a wide range of staff from across campus.
Participants meet each teaching week in the semester for graduate
seminars and practical activities under the guidance of an
academic coordinator.
For more information on the GTP, directed at prospective
participants, please see the GTP home page.
What can you do?
As a staff member, you can help inform PhD students that the
GTP exists. Although we send out email and a flyer to prospective
participants twice a year, some don't find out about us.
If you know of a PhD student who would benefit from the GTP,
why not bring it to their attention? Over 99% of previous participants
would recommend the GTP to their colleagues.
Sponsorship scheme
In the past, some people who have wanted to do the GTP
have found it difficult to secure concurrent teaching. To assist
those people into the GTP, the Graduate Teaching Program operates a
Sponsorhip Scheme.
The Scheme provides funds to assist Departments/Centres
to employ PhD students as tutors or demonstrators,
enabling them to undertake the GTP.
The intention is to provide equity of access to the GTP for all
ANU PhD students, by sponsoring those who otherwise
would not be offered a teaching job.
Please note that offers of sponsorship will be withdrawn if the
student does not complete the GTP.
Sponsorship is only available to students who wish to complete the GTP. Sponsorship is not a mechanism for an area to fund teaching. For example, if an area 'requires' a student to enrol in the GTP just for the money, the student will not be sponsored.
Assistance is not automatic and is limited to the equivalent of one
normal and one repeat tutorial per week, for the semester in which
the participant undertakes the GTP, with an overall limit of $1800.
Participants are employed by the Centre/Department,
not by the Graduate Teaching Program.
Typically, about one third of participants are sponsored.
So sponsorship should be seen as the exception rather than the rule.
It is important that the Sponsorship scheme is seen as a mechanism
for enabling PhD students to undertake the GTP. If
used to fund tutors who then reluctantly
attend the GTP, a degradation of the value of the GTP
to other participants follows. The desire to do the GTP must
come from the student, not the teaching area.
Requests for sponsorship are made by the teaching area, on the
GTP nomination form, and are
made by the person (such as Head) who has authority to appoint
casual tutors and demonstrators.
Online forms
The registration and nomination processes have been
streamlined with the introduction of online forms, replacing the
previous paper-based processes.
Prospective participants register their
interest in the GTP.
They may do this at any time before the semester in which
they wish to do the GTP.
Once the person has been offered teaching, we ask that the area
nominate them
(confirming their appointment). An option on that form
enables the area to apply for sponsorship.
Deadlines
The deadline for registration by students
is the Monday of the week before commencement of
the semester in which they wish to do the GTP. The first GTP
session is held in the first days of the semester. Late registrations
will be considered up to the end of Week 1.
The deadline for nomination by the teaching
area is the end of Week 1. A participant's place in the GTP cannot
be confirmed until they have been nominated by a teaching area.
The deadline for sponsorship applications
from the teaching
area is the Monday of the week before semester. Note that
late applications are less likely to
have a positive result, as sponsorship allocation is usually
done early that week.
More information?
You can address enquiries about any aspect of the
GTP to:
Dr Trevor Vickers
GTP Coordinator, ANU
T: (612) 58205
F: (612) 54829
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