2020 Conference

Monday Oct. 26

​Conference talks were captured as a single recording, available at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pC8IR0oJmptWRGXrwZvnEp2Z5hadqnHW?usp=sharing

Times listed in the table below indicate when in the recording each session begins; “NR” indicates a session was not recorded. Download the 2020 Conference Abstracts here.

Title	Speaker	Time
Introduction to Conference & BioTAP	Beth Schussler (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)	0:00
Keynote – Networking for Change: Improving Teaching Professional Development Through Connections, Collaboration, and Community,	Lindsay Wheeler (University of Virginia)	0:20
On the Evolution of Biology GTA Training: Population Growth and Program Development	Stephanie Gutzler and Matthew Nusnbaum (Georgia State University)	NR
Describing the Lack of Effective Professional Development in Biology GTAs. An Exploratory Study.	Santiago Ojeda Ramirez, Stephanie Toro, Catalina Arias Zuluaga (Universidad de los Andes)	1:08
Curriculum-linked Professional Development and Higher Cognitive Demand of Curricular Tasks Elevate Teaching Assistants’ Teaching Practices	Jessica Dewey, Jenna Hicks, Michael Abebe, Maxwell Kramer, Anita Schuchardt (University of Minnesota)	1:18
Community, Direct Feedback, and Cheerleading: Three Practices Identified by Graduate Trainees as Especially Useful in Taking Up Inclusive Teaching Methods	Ben Wiggins (University of Washington), Becca Price (UW-Bothell), Shelley Stromholt (University of Washington), Richard Gardner (University of Washington)	1:40
The “See One, Do One, Teach One” Strategy to Prepare TAs in Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: The Design and Testing of RNA Therapeutics to Block COVID-19	Flobater Gawargi and Martin Hicks (Monmouth University)	2:00
Unraveling the Failure Mindset for Teaching Assistants and Undergraduate Students in Introductory Biology and Chemistry	Deborah A. Lichti (University of Delaware)	2:10
Seeing Equity in Education (SEE): First Steps Towards the Development of the SEE Instrument	Gena Sbeglia and Ross H. Nehm (Stony Brook University)	2:31
What Do TA Teaching Perspectives Say About Their Views of Teaching and Learning?	Joshua Reid (Middle Tennessee State University) and Emily Weigel (Georgia Institute of Technology)	2:52
Ecological Belonging Interventions Can Eliminate Performance Gaps, But Instructor Mindset Matters	Sarah Hammarlund (University of Minnesota), Cheryl Scott (University of Minnesota), Kevin Binning (University of Pittsburgh), Sehoya Cotner (University of Minnesota)	3:12