The ITA Program was initiated in 1990, after the
Pennsylvania Fluency in Higher
Education Act of 1990 mandated that all instructors with classroom
teaching responsibilities who are not native speakers of English be
certified in English prior to assuming those
responsibilities.
Teaching Assistants who are not native-speakers of English can take
advantage of the ITA program and be connected to a Temple conversation partner to enhance their communicative
competence and improve their ability to participate in a variety of
instructional roles.
The ITA Program operates under the Intensive English Language Program in the Office of International Services. The ITA staff includes a program director, and a program coordinator/training course instructor. The program is responsible for the assessment and training of international teaching assistants.
Spring 2010 deadlines for the SPEAK testing:
- October 19 , 2009: SPEAK test start day
- November 26-29, 2009: Office Closed
- December 24, 2009-January 1, 2010: Office Closed
- January 12 , 2010: Last day of SPEAK testing for the TAs teaching in the Spring Semester
REGISTER for the SPEAK test.
Important thing to remember:
- All international graduate teaching assistants, including those who have received the minimum scores required in the TOEFL iBT or the Test of Spoken English, are required to contact the ITA Program to obtain their Certification of English Language Fluency before the beginning of the semester.
