Mentoring Graduate Students in Teaching

Research has consistently shown the high value of mentorship for graduate students in various areas—program satisfaction, professional self-image, confidence, productivity, and so on. However, specific templates of how to best mentor graduate students, especially in the vital area of teaching, are lacking. This article outlines the mentoring model called “From Conception to Co-instructor to Completion” (FCCIC). This five-step method provides a plan of action for faculty and graduate students who wish to co-develop a course in such a way that graduate student mentees are exposed to the entire teaching process with the supervision and assistance of a faculty mentor. This relationship moves beyond the traditional “professor/teaching assistant” hierarchy (the TA model) to create equally operational co-instructors. In this note, the FCCIC method is summarized and then illustrated through the development of a sociology course on happiness as an exemplar of how to better mentor graduate students in teaching

Graduate students · Happiness · Mathematics education · Medical education · Mentorship · Pedagogy · Sociology · Teaching assistant · Teaching method · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Medicine · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education

• Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)

  Open Access•Claire L McLeod, Catherine B Almquist et al.•Education Sciences•2025

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• Preparing and Supporting Graduate Students in Their Role as Teaching Assistants

  Danielle J Murdoch, Tamara O’Doherty et al.•Journal of Criminal Justice…•2020

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• Be Kind to Yourself and to Your Students”

  Open Access•Laura Sanchez, Meredith Gilbertson•Teaching Sociology•2025

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• Graduate Student Teacher Training

  Open Access•David D Blouin, Alison R Moss et al.•Teaching Sociology•2015

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• The Sociology Teaching Fellowship

  Open Access•Nathan Innocente, Jayne Baker•Teaching Sociology•2018

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• Mentoring College Students

  Open Access•Gloria Crisp, Irene Cruz Gómez et al.•Research in Higher Education•2009

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• Training Sociologists

  Bruce Keith, Helen A Moore•Teaching Sociology•1995

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• Transmitting Tricks of the Trade

  Open Access•E Leahey•Teaching Sociology•2006

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• The Status of Teacher Training in U.S. and Canadian Sociology Departments

  Bernice A Pescosolido, M A Milkie•Teaching Sociology•1995

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• The Use of Research Participation for Mentoring Prospective Minority Graduate Students

  Isiaah Crawford, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar et al.•Teaching Sociology•1996

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• Personalizing Mass Education

  Patricia A Adler•Teaching Sociology•1993

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• A Training Program for Graduate Teaching Assistants

  T Neal Garland•Teaching Sociology•1983

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• The effects of mentoring on academic careers over time

  Open Access•Catherine Kirchmeyer•Human Relations•2005

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• A Qualitative Examination of Graduate Advising Relationships

  Open Access•Sarah Knox, Lewis Z Schlosser et al.•The Counseling Psychologist•2006

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• Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Doctoral Students' Mentoring Relationships with Faculty in Counseling Psychology

  Open Access•Julianne S Lark, James M Croteau•The Counseling Psychologist•1998

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