It looks as if colleagues are making good use of the 'slower' months. If you are interested and able to review until 21st of August please let us know by Friday latest. Keep in mind this is an open peer review paper. 


Abstract: Graduate student instructors occupy a unique ‘liminal space’ as trainees in and instructors of their discipline. While research has explored challenges graduate students face while teaching, there is limited exploration of the challenges graduate students face that transcend disciplinary boundaries while preparing for and teaching their first undergraduate class. This qualitative study asked graduate students to reflect on the challenges and surprises they encountered while preparing for and teaching their first undergraduate class. Our findings indicate that consistent with previous literature, most graduate student pedagogical training is not sufficient for preparing graduate student instructors and many of the challenges they encounter are the result of a lack of support and prioritization of pedagogy in graduate training. We anchor these findings in a discussion of structural barriers to effective pedagogical training in graduate school and a brief review of model graduate pedagogical training programs. 
 
Keywords: Graduate student instructors, graduate school, reflection, first-time teaching, pedagogical training

All papers submitted till Friday will have a review deadline of 21st of August. We have a summer break of 2 weeks and then will accept papers again as of 1st of August. And as usual if you know of someone who might be interested pass it on! 

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