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Teaching Tips

Announcements

• The Slack channel
• New students (we’ll do introductions in a bit)

New ways of accessing CSIL

• ssh to csil.cs.ucsb.edu not csil-xx.cs.ucsb.edu
• remote desktop
• samba

About the course

• What is the goal of 190J?
• Why are we not teaching you how to teach?

Homework H01

• Reading a paper
• Accessing the digital library for primary sources

Check in

• Rose/Thorn
• Experience in your classes so far

Some basic teaching tips

• Link to slides
• Link to original slides and other excellent material from CS Teaching Tips

Tips

Dont’s:

• Don’t take control of the students keyboard (without asking)
  • Doesn’t apply as much in time of Covid (over Zoom), but even so.
• Don’t give away the answer (unless they are really stuck, very trivial, very complicated, or student is extremely frustrated)
• Don’t be condescending
• Don’t be afraid to say I don’t know but let’s find out.
• Don’t undermine the course, the lab, the instructor, your peers
• Don’t use terms that students don’t know

  • Or if you do, “remind them” what the term means. Examples:

    “It looks like you may have a memory leak. As a reminder, a memory leak is when … “

Do’s:

• Keep your cool even if the student is anxious or beligerent
• Keep the interaction and interesting
• Refer to the lab write up and syllabus where appropriate
• Reflect on your tutoring/TA sessions
• If you don’t know how to handle a situation, inform the TA or instructor.