Course Syllabus (subject to change)

Week Class Information
1
Date: 2004-08-30

Topic: Introduction

Outline

Handouts:

  1. TA Essentials
  2. Fears Allayed
  3. Course Information (or as MS Word)

Homework: pdf or MS Word
2
Date: Tuesday 2004-09-07, from 9-10:30

Topic: Talk about your first week (optional!)

Handouts:

Homework:

3
Date: 2004-09-13

Topic: Veteran TAs

Guest Speakers: Andy Begel, Shyam Lakshmin, and Chung Ming Wu

Homework:

4
Date: 2004-09-20

Topic: Evaluation: How do you know how well you are doing?

Handout: Class 3

Homework:

5
Date: 2004-09-27

Topic: What Students Want

Guest Panelists: Tina Dong, Kaisen Lin, Sahand Negahban, and Alan Wei

Handouts: What Students Want summary
6
Date: 2004-10-04

Topic: TA Presentations

Homework:

7
Date: 2004-10-11

Topic: Time Management

Handout: time management handout

Homework:

8
Date: 2004-10-18

Topic: Misconceptions

Handouts:

9
Date: 2004-10-25

Topic: Teaching and Being a Professor

Guest Speaker: Jitendra Malik

Handouts:

  1. Notes from Jitendra Malik's talk
  2. The cast study

Homework:

10
Date: 2004-11-01

Topic: TA Debates

Homework:

11
Date: 2004-11-08

Topic: The Value of the Wrong Answer

Homework: