Lecture 3

Lecture 3,

Practicing one on one explanations

Homeworks

H02: Prepare to teach a technical topic
- Learn the topic in depth
- Set clear learning objectives
- Choose a set of problems to solve inorder to teach the topic
- Prepare your teaching material (suggestion is not to use slides), but use other visual aids. Incorcorporate the use of example problems as much as possible.
- Prepare a short assessment for your student.
H03: Shadow an experienced tutor
- Take notes based on the prompts provided in h03
- Type your responses in the associated homework on gradescope

Break up into groups of 4
Two students will be an “observer”
One student will be the “tutor”
One student will be the “student”
Observers will take notes on how the tutor worked with the student for various topics.
Each tutor will help answer the student questions in 5 minute and 2 minute timeboxes.
After a tutor finishes the explanation, students will switch roles such that everyone will have an opportunity to be a tutor.
- For each student, please submit comments on the google form: http://bit.ly/190J-observation-week3