Instruction for Teaching Assistant:
- Class website in my google site: https://sites.google.com/site/tranvohuy/
- Run discussion session: if I want you to go over anything, then I'll email you. If not, answer students questions, go over some hw problems.
- Hold 1 office hour per week. Preferably a day before homework due date.
- Grade homework.
- Return homework timely so that students can review.
- If I forget to put homework in your mailbox on the due dates, please do not hesitate to tell me.
- Help instructor to grade midterms, final, and to proctor exams.
- Give comments about exams. They will be sent to you at least 2 nights ahead. The instructor needs another pair of eyes to check if problems are unclear, wrong, stupid or too hard, etc.
- If there is any problem, please do not hesitate to email/contact me. I used to be a graduate student.
About homework:
-Solve homework problems before going to class. Sometimes it's embarrassing.
-The policy says that no late homework/email for homework is accepted. But sometimes students have good excuse (interview, sick, religious holiday, etc) that I cannot refuse. I'll ask them to scan their work and turn in hard copy later, etc. I'm sorry for this inconvenience.
About grading:
- Try to solve exams/homework yourself.
- Create a rubric before grading exams. This helps the grading and also if students complain, then we can easily check.
(Hint: Students may have different solutions from the one in rubric. We can give points based on whether or not the students have solved less than half, about half, almost the problems.)
- In a very rare situation, a student may erase and re-write their homework/exams to have a better score. If one of us has any suspicion, we have to coordinate and carefully observe the student's work by taking copies of their work. Usually if a student cheats once, they will cheat again in future exams and maybe in another class.
First two weeks:
-A bit chaos is expected since there are always coming late students, or students having trouble with enrollment. Bear with me!