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Lecture 1,
Orientation to the course
Orientation for Tutors
Expectations from tutors:
- Responsive: As a tutor you will be working with the instructor and the students. You are expected to respond to be respond appropriately and in a timely fashion (slack/Piazza/email)
- Reliabile: This means showing up ON TIME to your scheduled lab hours, keeping up with your commitments and deadlines
- Proactive: Observe the students in your lab sections and offer to assist them. You must appear “available” to students during your hours and not immersed in your devices.
- Prepared: Read the lab instructions carefully before appearing for your sections, read the lecture slides
- Helpful: Be respectful and try your best. Say I don’t know when you really don’t but seek help from the TA or instructor to make sure that the student received the help they need.
- Ethical: You must follow good ethics in your ineteraction with students and are required by university rules to report any cases of harrassment or inappropriate behavior to you instructor immediately
About the course
- What is the goal of 190J?
- Why are we not teaching you how to teach?
Graded components
- Tutoring for your specific course (40%)
- 190J specific assignments and homeworks (including course specific hwks) (60%)
- Projects (2): 40%
- Homeworks (3 - 6 ): 20% CS190J hwks are available on the course website, course specific hwks will be given by the instructor
Projects
- An observation of one-on-one tutoring by your supervising instructor: Schedule these observations with your course specific instructor in Week 4
- Create an assignment / resource about a specific topic in the course you are tutoring for (powerpoint, educational video, written / lab assignment, etc. Be creative!)
- This may be done solo or in pairs.
- A final paper summarizing your learning in the course: Due on the last day of instruction
For more information please read the syllabus!
Homework
- Various assignments related to preparation for being a better mentor, and learning about CS Education.
Review H00
Bios and photos to share with students. For more information see h00 writeup
Some basic teaching tips
Tips
Don’ts:
- Don’t take control of the students keyboard (without asking)
- 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
Do’s:
- Keep your cool even if the student is anxious or beligerent
- Keep the interaction and interersting
- 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.