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TO DO LIST
NEXT WEEK GOALS:
- Get a course outline done. Fill out list of topics.
- Think about the bootcamp.
- Think about activities and projects.
- Think about course goals.
- Look at academic calendar. How many classes do we have?
AUGUST GOALS:
- Get first three meetings ready
Important dates for C10
- First day of section?
- First quiz?
- First midterm?
- Aaron: When did we start E-mailing ppl last year?
- We sent the first E-mail on July 27th.
Thoughts and things to still do:
- Homework: Related to next week's activity?
- Pedagogy readings: Minimal to nonexistent? Reference and make available on website for the interested members.
- More of ppl at the board
- Less lecturing, more discussion (hard!)
- Videotaping early, get GSI Resource Center involved?
- Section visiting early and more than once? Student-Student visits + Instructor-Student visits
- Visiting a experienced GSI's section?
- Meredith's Facebook quiz idea for quiz week
- Math anxiety/how to most effectively cater to the algebra-phobic
- One take-away thing to reflect on after each section?
- How to cope with teaching anxiety
- Boardwork critique early?
- Technology?
- Gauging student retention/improving retention
Academic Calendar, Important Events
- Friday, Aug 19 : GSI All Day Conference
- Thursday, Aug 25 : Instruction Begins
- Monday, Sept 05 : Holiday
- Friday, Nov 11 : Holiday
- Thursday, Nov 24 : Holiday
- Friday, Nov 24 : Holiday
- Friday, Dec 02 : Classes End
Possible Dates for Ay300 (assumes Ay300 is held on Monday, as has happened in the past)
- Aug 23,24 (Tuesday, Wednesday ; Bootcamp 1,2)
- Aug 29 (3)
- NO CLASS Sept 5
- Sept 12 (4)
- Sept 19 (5)
- Sept 26 (6)
- Oct 3 (7)
- Oct 10 (8)
- Oct 17 (9)
- Oct 24 (10)
- Oct 31 (11)
- Nov 7 (12)
- Nov 14 (13)
- Nov 21 (14)
- Nov 28 (15)
- Dec 5 (16)