Foreword: Preparing the Professors

Richard Fulkerson

Preface

Sarah Liggett

Betty P. Pytlik

Part I. Histories

How Graduate Students Were Prepared to Teach Writing---1850--1970

Betty P. Pytlik

Recent Trends in TA Instruction: A Bibliographic Essay

Stephen Wilhoit

After Preparing TAs for the Classroom, What Then? Three Decades of Conversation about Preparing TAs for the Job Market

Kirsti A. Sandy

When Teaching Assistants Teach Teaching Assistants to Teach: A Historical View of a Teacher Preparation Program

Irwin Weiser

TA Education as Dialogic Response: Furthering the Intellectual Work of the Profession through WPA

Darin Payne

Theresa Enos

Part II. Theories

The Professionalization of TA Development Programs: A Heuristic for Curriculum Design

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Thinking Together: Developing a Reciprocal Reflective Model for Approaches to Preparing College Teachers of Writing

Shirley K Rose

Margaret J. Finders

Educating Literacy Instructors: Practice versus Expression

Judith Goleman

Too Cool for School? Composition as Cultural Studies and Reflective Practice

Christine Farris

Feminist Approaches to Mentoring Teaching Assistants: Conflict, Power, and Collaboration

Rebecca J. Rickly

Susanmarie Harrington

Negotiating Resistance and Change: One Composition Program's Struggle Not to Convert

Katrina M. Powell

Peggy O'Neill

Cassandra Mach Phillips

Brian Huot

Part III. Programs

Preparing Graduate Students across the Curriculum to Teach Writing

Katherine K. Gottschalk

Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: A Program for Continuing TA Preparation after the Practicum

Betty Bamberg

Experience and Reflection in Multiple Contexts: Preparing TAs for the Artistry of Professional Practice

Chris Burnham

Rebecca Jackson

The Three-Part Program for Preparing TAs to Lead Professional Communication Courses at Miami University (Ohio)

Paul Anderson

Todd Deluca

Lisa Rosenberger

Preparing College Teachers of Writing to Teach in a Web-Based Classroom: History, Theoretical Base, Web Base, and Current Practices

Christine Hult

Lynn Meeks

``What Would You Like to Work on Today?'' The Writing Center as a Site for Teacher Training

Muriel Harris

Part IV. Practices

Mentoring: Past, Present and Future

Sally Barr Ebest

Mentors, Models, and Agents of Change: Veteran TAs Preparing Teachers of Writing

Wanda Martin

Charles Paine

Orientation and Mentoring: Collaborative Practices in Teacher Preparation

Gita Das Bender

From Discomfort, Isolation, and Fear to Comfort, Community, and Confidence: Using Reflection, Role-Playing, and Classroom Observation to Prepare New Teachers of College Writing

Michael C. Flanigan

Essaying TA Training

Thomas E. Recchio

Orientation for Teachers of Technical Writing

Barry Thatcher

Learning to Evaluate and Grade Student Writing: An Ongoing Conversation

Donna Qualley

The Teaching Portfolio: Practicing What We Teach

Margaret Lindgren

Evolution of a Teaching Notebook: Contents, Purposes, and Assessment

Sarah Liggett

Contributors

Index