Thoughts how our 303K sections may be organized: (Tentative. The final organization is up to Turner and Florin)

303K-MIfall10 homeage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~itiq/303KMI/chiu/

TA homepage: See 303K-MI TA and LAs homepage Second bullet in the home page

1. Comments to instructors.

My own experience. – Follow the textbook. In essence our teaching: principle based explanation. Minimize lengthy algebraic black board writing.

Mechanics is explained based on three principles. -- Course summary: Summary of unit contents, available for the exam.

2. Comments to TAs

o 10 hr: Lead TA sessions. Lead the activities of 5 modeling and the remainder discussions on group problems and explanation on other selected problems (hw problems, student’s common errors)

New strategy of teaching

o 10 hr: Make the Quest MI-exam problems

o Each exam:

o Each section contributions ¼ of the exam.

o Instructor+TA makes up 4 questions

o TA turn these questions into the formal Quest problem (Our CA: Manasvi Lingam will be the consultant for making Quest problem)

o One final for each section

3. LAs: Based on further work of Turner and Florin, following is an update on LA assignment situation.

Ideal assignment 3 LAs to 1 section for ~130 students. For one 303-section there are 4 TA-sessions. Two LAs are assigned to each TA session. So for 1 section there are 8-LA sessions. (Definition: LA-session= 1 LA participating 1 session)

o Division of 3 LAs into 8 LA sessions: 8=3+3+2. In other words, there are 2 LAs, each assigned to 3 sessions. The leftover LA is assigned to 2 LA-sessions.

o LA responsibilities

o Lecture 3 hrs

o TA session: 3 hrs (one LA will have 2 sessions)

o Each LA is assigned to a group of students. (# of students in the section)/3.

o Outside help students: Independent help, answer email, office hour (online, or regular). This item need to be adjusted depending on # of sessions assigned.

o Helping students in MI way

Large 303 section: ~250 students

TA: one 20 hrs + one 10 hr. 4 LAs.

1LA is assigned to a group of 250/4 ~60 students.

A typical TA session:

2 TAs + 3 LAs.

1 section has 4 TA-sessions, or 3x4=12 LA-sessions.

4 LAs are assigned to 12 LA-sessions. 12=3+3+3+3

Each LA is assigned to 3 sessions.