CS501

The purpose of CS501 is to prepare the Computer Science Department TAs for teaching in the classroom environment. TAs are not expected to have any prior teaching experience thus this course will help them achieve confidence in the classroom, grade equitably and efficiently, teach to various learning styles and establish their personal teaching philosophies. The course is given to both students who will concurrently be TAing in the fall quarter and those who hope to, or expect to TA in future quarters. In addition some TAs will only be responsible for grading, some only for leading discussion sections, and others only for running labs. Therefore, the content of the course encompasses each of these areas. Due to the fact that some students of CS501 will be concurrently TAing, more important topics are covered toward the beginning of the course.

You will also have to attend and critique one other TA discussion.

Your participation will drive this seminar! Your questions, concerns and experiences will shape the topics and value of the course, so be involved!

Instructor

Zexi Huang
Contact me via: zexi_huang at cs dot ucsb dot edu
Course Piazza Page

Course Requirements

Attendance: miss no more than one class.
Teaching Demo:
- Those who are TAing this quarter (leading discussion/lab): Share your section logistics under the Observation tab here. No additional demo needed.
- Those who are not TAing this quarter (readers, GSRs, etc): Sign up for in-class teaching presentation under the Presentation tab here. You can choose any non-trivial topic of your general interest to present.
Critique (fill in the TA Observation Form):
- Attend at least one other TA's section and critique. You can find the section logistics under the Observation tab here.
- Critique at least one in-class teaching presentation.
Complete Teaching Philosophy Statement.