WorkRoles Responsi- bilities Instructors

TA Work #1 What should you do if there are multiple TA’s for the course you are TAing?

TA Work #2 What can you do to help students prepare for exams, but is not a requirement of Taing?

TA Work #3 What online tool is available for you to maintain and distribute homework, quiz, and exam grades?

TA Roles #1 What is the main role of most Engineering TAs? (this responsibility includes actual teaching!)

TA Roles #2 What essential role does the TA have that will take up one to two hours of your week?

TA Roles #3 Whom should you report common student difficulties, errors, and special concerns to?

If students are given weekly homework assignments, whose responsibility is it to grade them? TA Responsibilities #1

TA Responsibilities #2 What might you have to provide for students in cases where the professor assigns non-textbook problems?

What are some “end-of-the-quarter” tasks the TA is responsible for? TA Responsibilities #3

Instructors #1 What is the best way to know what the course instructor has taught, what he/she thinks is important, and to prepare for your discussion section?

Instructor #2 What might you have to do if the class instructor has to miss class?

Instructor #3 Where should you be able to find the professor’s policies on late assignments, plagiarism, and make-up exams?

Light #1 Light bouncing off of an object.

Light #2 This word refers to when light hits something like a wall, the light is stopped and held in.

Light #3 When white light is passes through this object, each color of light bends at a different angle.

TA Work #1 Attend weekly TA meetings and / or coordinate with other TA’s

TA Work #2 Conduct review sessions before exams

TA Work #3 EEE Gradebook

TA Roles #1 Holding discussion / lab sections

TA Roles #2 Holding regular office hours

TA Roles #3 The course professor and other TA’s

TA Responsibilities #1 The course reader / grader

TA Responsibilities #2 Detailed solution sets

TA Responsibilities #3 Recording grades Computing final grades Reading final evaluations Help proctor final exam, etc.

Instructors #1 Attend lectures (or talk to the professor before the quarter or weekly)

Instructors #2 Give a guest lecture

Instructors #3 The course syllabus or ask the professor at the beginning of the quarter

Light #1 What is reflection?

Light #2 What is absorption?

Light #3 What is a prism?

TLTC Welcome Video

Based on the TLTC Welcome video clip, what services does the TLTC provide for TA’s? TLTC Welcome Video

Final Jeopardy Online midterm feedback, 1-on-1 consulting appointments, Video recording of teaching Workshops though out the quarter TAPDP

What does TAPDP stand for?

Warm Up Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program (TAPDP)