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Roles and Responsibilities

Students:

  • Actively participate in the lectures and cohort meetings
  • Perform the projects in teams and present their results
  • Provide timely feedback when they face difficulty with following the assignment instructions

Teaching assistants (TA):

  • Occasionally provide advice for some steps in the project
  • Troubleshoot or assist the students to solve technical issues
  • Monitor the students progress

Lecturers:

  • Present inspiring lectures on the selected topics
  • Provide a list of reading material for peer-instructions
  • When required, moderate the peer-instruction sessions

Coordinators:

  • Organise the lectures time-table
  • Moderate the cohort meetings
  • Assign the final grades

Expectations for a lecturer/TA-student relationship:

Students are responsible for:

  • Asking for help or clarification.
  • Reporting on their progress to the TA and the course coordinators.

TAs are asked to:

  • Regularly monitor the progress of the project or assignment.
  • Provide advice on project steps or suggest an expert or reading materials when needed.
  • Provide feedback to the students to consider.
  • Provide feedback to the course coordinator at the end of the course.

Recommendations for TAs

Do

  • Create a comfortable environment that allows individuals to share ideas openly.
  • Understand that feedback and learning goes both ways.
  • Allow students to embrace their mistakes as learning experiences.
  • Be patient with students; don’t expect them to understand a new concept the first time.
  • Be connected. Let students reach you when they have questions.
  • Help students make a connection between what they are learning and how it is used in the real-world.
  • Set expectations of each party - know collective goals.
  • Face-to-face interaction helps, but when possible students can be supported via electronic communication

Don’t

  • Don’t try to lead the project for students. Instead, share your experience and help in getting to the answers.
  • Don’t Assume that something is too hard for the students to accomplish. Try to give them your estimate of the difficulty or requirements.