Knotts, Gibbs and Eleanor C. Main. 1997. "Teaching Ph.D. Students to Teach Political Science: The Emory TATTO Program."

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Knotts, Gibbs and Eleanor C. Main. 1997. "Teaching Ph.D. Students to Teach Political Science: The Emory TATTO Program." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C.

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In fall 1991 Emory University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences inaugurated the Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO) program to prepare graduate students to enter the professoriate as competent and confident teachers. The TATTO program strives to ensure that each student's education as a research scholar is balanced with a thoughtful and thorough preparation in the art of teaching. The creators of TATTO believe that teaching and research are not in conflict, and that the pursuit of knowledge and its dissemination through the many varied forms of teaching is a creative symbiosis. In addition, the communication, interaction and problem-solving skills that are requisite to becoming a proficient teacher are necessary to be effective employees in government, industry and non-profit organizations.

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