Autoethnographic reflections of an international graduate teaching assistant’s co-teaching experiences

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This authoethnographic study explores the co-teaching experiences of an international graduate teaching assistant (IGTA) assigned to co-teach an undergraduate course at a U.S. publicly funded university. As a sociocultural theoretical framework, Dewey (1938), Vygotsky (1978), and Schön’s (1983) works regarding experiential learning, interaction, and reflective practice were used to analyze narratives and highlight the IGTA’s co-teaching experiences to provide evidence of reflective and collaborative practices. Five themes emerged from the study: a need for professional development, interdependence, mentoring, improving interpersonal skills, and shifting perspectives. The findings uncovered how the co-teaching experience cultivated and sustained an IGTA’s personal awareness of self and others through guided reflection on instructional practices to improve teaching and learning.

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Howlett, K. M., & Nguyen, H. L. (2020). Autoethnographic reflections of an international graduate teaching assistant’s co-teaching experiences. Journal of International Students, 10(2), 401–419. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v10i2.774

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