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TA Roles & Responsibilities: Work Roles, Instructors, Light

Learn the various tasks and responsibilities of Teaching Assistants (TAs) in academia, including work roles, instructor support, and understanding light concepts. Discover how TAs can effectively contribute to the educational process.

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TA Roles & Responsibilities: Work Roles, Instructors, Light

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  1. TA Roles & Responsibilities Responsi-bilities Work Roles Instructors 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 Warm up Final Jeopardy

  2. Question: TA Work #1 What should you do if there are multiple TA’s for the course you are TAing?

  3. Question: TA Work #2 What can you do to help students prepare for exams, but is not a requirement of Taing?

  4. Question: TA Work #3 What online tool is available for you to maintain and distribute homework, quiz, and exam grades?

  5. Question: TA Roles #1 What is the main role of most Engineering TAs? (this responsibility includes actual teaching!)

  6. Question: TA Roles #2 What essential role does the TA have that will take up one to two hours of your week?

  7. Question: TA Roles #3 Whom should you report common student difficulties, errors, and special concerns to?

  8. Question: TA Responsibilities #1 If students are given weekly homework assignments, whose responsibility is it to grade them?

  9. Question: TA Responsibilities #2 What might you have to provide for students in cases where the professor assigns non-textbook problems?

  10. Question: TA Responsibilities #3 What are some “end-of-the-quarter” tasks the TA is responsible for?

  11. Question: Instructors #1 What is the best way to know what the course instructor has taught, what he/she thinks is important, and to prepare for your discussion section?

  12. Question: Instructor #2 What might you have to do if the class instructor has to miss class?

  13. Question: Instructor #3 Where should you be able to find the professor’s policies on late assignments, plagiarism, and make-up exams?

  14. Question: Light #1 Light bouncing off of an object.

  15. Question: Light #2 This word refers to when light hits something like a wall, the light is stopped and held in.

  16. Question: Light #3 When white light is passes through this object, each color of light bends at a different angle.

  17. TA Work #1 Answer: Attend weekly TA meetings and / or coordinate with other TA’s

  18. TA Work #2 Answer: Conduct review sessions before exams

  19. TA Work #3 Answer: EEE Gradebook

  20. TA Roles #1 Answer: Holding discussion / lab sections

  21. Answer: TA Roles #2 Holding regular office hours

  22. Answer: TA Roles #3 The course professor and other TA’s

  23. Answer: TA Responsibilities #1 The course reader / grader

  24. Answer: TA Responsibilities #2 Detailed solution sets

  25. Answer: TA Responsibilities #3 • Recording grades • Computing final grades • Reading final evaluations • Help proctor final exam, etc.

  26. Instructors #1 Answer: Attend lectures (or talk to the professor before the quarter or weekly)

  27. Instructors #2 Answer: Give a guest lecture

  28. Instructors #3 Answer: The course syllabus or ask the professor at the beginning of the quarter

  29. Light #1 Answer: What is reflection?

  30. Light #2 Answer: What is absorption?

  31. Light #3 Answer: What is a prism?

  32. Final Jeopardy TLTC Welcome Video

  33. Final Jeopardy TLTC Welcome Video Based on the TLTC Welcome video clip, what services does the TLTC provide for TA’s?

  34. Answer: Final Jeopardy • Online midterm feedback, • 1-on-1 consulting appointments, • Video recording of teaching • Workshops though out the quarter • TAPDP

  35. Warm Up What does TAPDP stand for?

  36. Warm Up Answer: Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program (TAPDP)

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