Mariam Salloum

Instructor

Mariam Salloum (prof)

• Email: msalloum [at] cs [dot] ucr [dot] edu

• Office: Bourns 159B

• Office Hours: MWF 1-2

Announcements

• 9/27 Website online!!

Logistics

• Lecture: Monday 5:00 - 8:00 PM Watkins Hall 2240

Course Description

By the end of this class, you will be able to:

1. Effectively carry out the basic roles and responsibilities of a TA at UC Riverside.

   1. Communicate with your instructor to align expectations about the specific roles and responsibilities of your TA position.

   2. Effectively plan and deliver discussion sections with clear learning objectives and implementing active learning strategies.

   3. Create and use rubrics to support efficient and replicable grading.

2. Connect professionalism to teamwork and teaching and reflect on your development as a professional.

   1. Reflect on your and your teammates’ collaborations to assess what's working well, what can be improved, and how to improve it.

   2. Identify priority areas for attention and improvement, and identify where efficiency can help decrease time spent on non-priority areas.

   3. Connect skills and insights from your role as a TA to future career goals.

3. Describe several theories of how people learn and apply them to teaching and learning strategies.

   1. Design specific, low-stakes activities to find out what students do and don't know.

   2. Use techniques for creating inclusive communities for learning.

You will be evaluated on:

• Completion of required pre-class assignments.

  • At the start of the quarter, you must complete the CS 302 pre-class survey. At the end of the quarter, you must complete the post-class survey.

• Professional behavior and attendance.

  • You are expected to fully participate in every class session, including arriving on time, engaging in group activities, and participating in large- and small-group discussions. On (rare) occasions when unavoidable circumstances require you to miss a class session, you are expected to notify me ahead of time.

• Regular reflections on your TA activities.

  • At the beginning of the quarter, you will define your TA role and responsibilities. You will be asked to reflect on successes and on areas for improvement in your TA assignment.

• Engagement with themes discussed in CS 302

  • The themes include communication, feedback, how people learn, educational technology, assessment, inclusiveness, and next steps. Each week, we will discuss one (or more) of these themes.

Weekly Schedule