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Date: 2004-01-23
Topic: Introduction: Fears and Expectations
Handouts:
- TA Essentials
- Fears Allayed
- Class Outline
Homework:
- Read TA Essentials handout; be prepared to discuss it next week
- Tools for Teaching
- Chapter III (secs 8-11) "Discussion Strategies"
- Chapter VI (sec 21-23) "Enhancing students' learning and motivation"
- Register online!
- Finally, if you don't already have an account, visit LiveJournal and create one.
- Join UCB_CS301_Sp04, join the community, and add it
to your friends list
- IMPORTANT: We just learned that some versions of IE have
trouble joining the community. If your browser keeps telling you that you need to be logged in, even
though you just logged in, try Netscape or something else (thanks, Jane!)
- Make a post in UCB_CS301_Sp04: describe your TA experiences from this week.
- In general, anyone can see what we say. To keep things private, make them "Friends Only."
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Date: 2004-01-30
Topic: Mechanics of Running a Section
Handouts:
- Class Outline
Homework:
- If you still have yet to register, do so soon!
- Tools for Teaching
- Chapter VI (sec 21-23) "Enhancing students' learning and motivation"
- how children fail Part I
- Journal topic (optional):
- Identify your learning style and how it impacts your learning and teaching.
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Date: 2004-2-06
Topic: How to be a Great TA and the Other Side of the Fence
Guest Speakers: Alex Kozlowski, Andrew Swan
Homework:
- How Children Fail by John Holt
- Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis
- Section Two: Responding to a Diverse Student Body
- Section Nine: Instructional Media and Technology
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Date: 2004-2-20
Topic: Carlo Sequin (slides here)
Homework:
- Tools for Teaching
- Chapter VIII (secs 28-34) "Testing and Grading"
- How Children Fail by John Holt
- Part III: Real Learning. pp. 129-226.
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Date: 2004-2-27
Topic: Testing, Grading, and Cheating
Homework:
- GSI Teaching & Orientation Resources
- "Through the Lenses of
Learning: How
Experiencing Difficult Learning Challenges and Changes Assumptions about
Teching" (pp 120-126)
- Tools for Teaching
- Chapter X (sec 41-43) "Evaluation to improve teaching"
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Date: 2004-3-5
Topic: The Value of the Wrong Answer
Homework:
- Midterm evaluations
- How Children Fail by John Holt
- Part IV: How Schools Fail pp. 227-268
- Part V: To Summarize pp. 269-298
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| 9 |
Date: 2004-3-19
Topic: Group Learning
Guest Speakers: Brian Harvey
Handouts:
- Class Outline
Homework:
- Journal topics:
- Re: How Children Fail
- John Holt writes about 10-year-old children in his book. Do his findings and conclusions apply to undergraduate students in computer science? In what ways do they and in what ways do they not?
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