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What it is

What it might look like in the classroom

Why it's important

Modeling

Demonstrating a skill, thought process, or outcome that is identified as important to the course or field of study.

  • Thinking aloud for students re: how you would approach a problem, reading, or question (before asking them to do so on their own in an activity or assignment).
  • Showing and discussing examples of successful finished products such as projects, papers, lab reports.
  • Having students share with a partner or group their approach to taking notes, keeping up with reading, preparing for discussion and tests, etc.
  • Demonstrating the flexibility needed to move between:
    - big picture and small picture
    - main ideas and supporting details
    - procedural and conceptual knowledge
    - facts and arguments

Grounds abstract course material and expectations into specific actions which:

  • Exposes students to new ways of thinking (especially those common to the field of study).
  • Offers beginners structured opportunities to practice new ways of thinking/ acting for themselves.
  • Clarifies what successful performance looks like (which can alleviate perceived subjectivity in grading).

View/download a guide to modeling in your discussion section.

This is one of nine TA skills. View/download a chart of all nine skills.

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