1. Undergraduate TA Orientation College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology

2. First Things First Congratulations Welcome  or Welcome Back! Thanks in Advance  Hard Work  Commitment to educational mission

3. Minimum Qualifications Enrolled as a Georgia Tech Student A or B in course Good Academic Standing Overall GPA > 2.5 CS/ECE GPA > 3.0 Sophomore, Junior, or Senior Cleared by the Dean of Students Office  Academic Misconduct  Computer Misuse

4. Job Responsibilities Helping Students  Email  Recitation/Lab  Newsgroups  Responding to Questions What if you don’t know the answer?  Don’t Advise Grading  On time  Consistently grade according to criteria  Homeworks/Projects/ Labs/Exams Office Hours  Be on-time  Be prepared  Do not schedule during lecture time

5. Professional/Ethical Issues FERPA, 1974  Academic information can only be discussed with student Respect  Students & TAs  CoC Faculty/Staff  Course Professional Distance  No friends in your section  No dating students  Meet publicly NOT in dorms, fraternity house, apartment Commons Area

6. Academic Integrity Goal: Uphold the academic integrity of the course Prevention is the best medicine Report Misconduct Immediately  Course instructor  Director of Student Services Do not take action  Accusation  Email/Newsgroup  Mark Assignment/Exam

7. Getting Started Privileges  TA Lab Key form  States Cluster CoC Account form For Credit  Register by Friday @ 4 PM Permits (CRN 54196) For Pay  Hiring Paperwork See Cathy Dunnahoo (Room 109)

8. For Credit Option Job Performance  Grading Timeliness Quality  Preparedness Meetings Office Hours Lab/Recitation Learning Artifact  Demonstration of what you’ve learned while TAing  Examples Help Session Tutorial Course Assignment …

9. For Pay Option Time Reporting  Average 15 hours  Maximum 18 hours Exceptions must be granted in advance by course owner  Reporting Complete, accurate Time sheets due every 2 weeks First due 5/12/2004 by 5 PM Signed by course owner

10. Time Reporting (continued) Signatures  CS 1315 Monica Sweat  CS 1321 Monica Sweat  CS 1322 Bob Waters  CS 1371 Dan Colestock  CS 2130 & 2200 Bill Leahy  CS 2335 Mike McCracken  CS 2340 Jeff Pierce

11. In Summary… TAing can be a lot of work  But it can be very rewarding We can’t do this without you… Thanks in advance for all of your hard work!

12. Questions?