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TO DO LIST
NEXT WEEK GOALS (for 7/21):
- Each of us draft a course outline with topics, activities, projects, and homeworks.
- Think more about the bootcamp, now in detail.
NEXT WEEK GOALS (for 7/14):
- Think of topics to cover
- 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 notes:
- 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
C10, Important Events
- Week of Sept 19 : First Quiz
- Week of Oct 3 : Midterm Review
- Monday, Oct 10 : Midterm I
- Week of Oct 24 : Second Quiz
- Week of Nov 7 : Midterm Review
- Monday, Nov 14 : Midterm II
- Week of Dec 5 : Final Exam Review?
Draft Schedule for Ay300 (assumes Ay300 is held on Monday, as has happened in the past)
Class Number | Date/Week of | Topics, HW (Aaron) | Topics, HW (Therese) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Aug 23 | Bootcamp 1 , HW: Draft your first 50 minute section | |
2 | Aug 24 | Bootcamp 2 | |
3 | Aug 29 | ||
4 | Sept 12 | ||
5 | Sept 19 | ||
6 | Sept 26 | ||
7 | Oct 3 | ||
8 | Oct 10 | C10 GSIs have to grade… (optional 1-hour Celia's meeting some other time during the week?) | |
9 | Oct 17 | ||
10 | Oct 24 | ||
11 | Oct 31 | ||
12 | Nov 7 | ||
13 | Nov 14 | C10 GSIs have to grade… | |
14 | Nov 21 | ||
15 | Nov 28 | ||
16 | Dec 5 |