CSE599A: TA Training Seminar (Autumn 2005)

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Recent Announcements: (Dec 15) Thanks to everyone for the productive learning environment we all helped to create! Course Goals: This will be a practically oriented seminar, aimed at helping you to become more effective at working with students, other TAs, and professors in many of the different aspects these relationships and duties involve in the context of computer science. All who want or need to improve their teaching are welcome -- together we will learn more than any subset of us can. Undergraduate students with related interests are, of course, invited too. Class Meetings: Tue, 2:30pm-3:20pm, LOW 106 (Note: Sometimes we will meet in lab CSE 305 instead; an explicit announcement will be sent on the mailing list the day before this happens.) Contact Information: Instructor: Valentin Razmov (valentin@cs); Office hour: Thu 2:30pm-3:20pm in CSE 618, or by appointment Textbook: McKeachie's Teaching Tips, by Wilbert McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki (editors). (The University Bookstore has the latest (12th) edition of this text available. If you'd like to compare prices online, you may look here.) There will be supplementary handouts on specific topics. What to Expect: This is a 1-credit seminar, so the work expectation from you will be correspondingly small. You will be expected to attend class, participate in discussions, and read short articles in preparation for those. On the practical side, you will be given a choice of several activities related to the goals of the seminar, of which you will need to pick and do two over the course of the quarter. For a sampling of ideas about types of activities, the web sites of previous offerings of this seminar may be useful. (Note: The seminar used to be called 590IT and then 599IT.) Further details will be available on this site during the first week.

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