Setting up the weekly preparation session:

• How do you anticipate your Weekly preparation session will look?

• What roles do you see LAs taking in these weekly sessions?

• What do you see as the essential goals and features of a preparation session?

• What challenges do see in running a prep session?

• What’s on the table for discussion?

• What are ways you can prepare experienced LAs to engage in novel instructional activities? Can they mentor newer LAs? Can they develop new mini activities?

• How will you promote opportunities for LA input?

Reflecting on the weekly preparation session:

• Who is doing the talking? Is this a collaborative relationship, where the LA and faculty member are co-constructing the learning environment, or is it more mentor-mentee, where the LA is enacting the vision of the faculty member?

• Who is asking the questions?

• Who makes the final decisions about the instruction?

• How would you classify the weekly preparation session: Mentor-Mentee? Collaborative?

• Does your LA have an opportunity to suggest and develop instructional materials?

• What types of discussions happen in your weekly preparation session: Discussions of content? Reflections on student learning? Co-thinking about classroom modifications?