====== Assignments ======

All assignments must be completed in order to receive a "Pass" for the class. Exceptions are made only in the most extreme of circumstances. 

**Bootcamp Day 1 HW, due Tuesday, Aug 26th:**
      - Draft your section syllabus. Bring a hard copy with you to class.
      - Draft your first day lesson plan. Write out your specific learning objectives. 
      - Prepare some board work responses to the list of questions I gave out. Aim to be able to answer the questions in 2-3 minutes. 

**Bootcamp Day 2 HW, due Sept 8:**
      - Have great first sections! 
      - Email your syllabus for feedback.
      - Watch the two videos of professors lecturing. Answer the questions found on the "Instructor Lecture Videos" worksheet, found on the main Wiki page.

**Class 3 HW, due Sept 15:**
      - Start keeping your short teaching logs.
      - Add your teaching and office hour times/locations to the front page of the Wiki.
      - Organize with another discussion section GSI a time to visit and observe their teaching. 

**Class 4 HW, due Sept 22:**
      - Start thinking about your longer teaching prompts. You might start making some notes on the various topics to help you construct your longer entries.
      - Visit your assigned peer GSI, have a chat afterwards, and fill out the worksheet. Bring the completed worksheet with you to class next week.
      - Bring in a lesson plan you have used or plan to use next week.

**Class 5 HW, due Sept 29:**
      - Write one multiple choice question (5 choices, no throw-aways) and one free response question (two parts). Bring a copy of them to class next week.
      - First extended log due next week. You can either hand it in or email me a PDF.

**Class 6 HW, due Oct 6:**
    - Draft a one-page teaching philosophy. Bring it with you next week (hard copy not required).
    - Continue to improve your two exam questions. Email me one of your two for further feedback. 
    - In the next few weeks, try a new group work strategy or method of discussion in your sections or office hours. You'll report back to the class on how things went in a few weeks. 

**Class 7 HW, due Oct 13:**
     - We will be doing board work exercises again next week. But this time you won't know what questions are coming (they will be related to your particular course's material).
     - Schedule a time to meet with me after I observe your discussion sections, if I do. 
     - Second extended log due next week.

**Class 8 HW, due Oct 20:**
   - Schedule a time to chat with me if I have viewed your section.
   - Let's check on the smaller logs next week. Bring in your lesson plans for a quick check.
   - Write and administer your mid-semester evaluation. 

**Class 9 HW, due Oct 27:**
     - Go through your mid-semester evaluations. Compile a summary (at least one page) that gives your distributions for quantitative questions, and a general summary of your qualitative answers. Identify any trends in the responses. What is one thing that you intend to change in your remaining sections, based off these evals?
    - Meet with me if you have not yet. 
    - 3rd extended log due next week.  

**Class 10 HW, due Nov 3:**
   - If you have not yet analyzed your mid-semester evaluations, shoot me an email with your summary sometime this week. 
   - Read Douglas Duncan's "Six Ways to Discourage Learning" for next week. Easily found online. 
   - I never checked your short teaching logs. Let's check those next week. 

**Class 11 HW, due Nov 10:**
   - Last extended log due next week.