Teaching Assistants

Responsibilities

• Introduce yourself on 1st week class and share your project experience.

• First response to student email, eLearn and lab session questions.

• Take attendance and participation points in class.

  • Collate participation points

• Mentor student project

  • Weekly meeting with student teams (actively keep up with their progress of project)

  • Update progress in a spreadsheet.

  • Communicate the course teaching staff on progress and questions

• Meet teaching staff once every two weeks to discuss coming assignment.

Mentoring

Here is a suggested format for mentor sessions.

• 1. Ask the team to present

     1. their progress in the current iteration

     2. what they intend to do this week

     3. what questions they have

  2. Review the documents or prototypes they have produced.

  3. Make the best use of your remaining time.

• • 1. If their progress is good, then proceed to answer their questions.

    2. If they are falling behind, suggest next steps.

    3. If their work looks sub-standard, explain how they can make it better. Use last year's submissions as an example.

Mentors must answer the following questions for each group at the end of each iteration:

• 1. Explain any challenges (if any, max 2) faced by the team. E.g. A missing member in the team; complex problem that is hard to solve, test, prototype; team changed project/merged after week 3.

  2. Explain extra efforts (if any, max 2) that the team do. E.g. Seek out as real test participants as possible by …; prototype included realistic data/content taken from …; written a prototype with code that collected quantitative data; ...

  3. Explain any other items (if any, max 2) that you want the grader to know. Eg. Team is not strong technically but able to pull through with prototype; each mentor session at least one member is missing (different member); team is collaborating with team X on the project