- Proposal 1: The department will examine how students’ teaching experience could be improved.
The questionnaires indicated that more contact time between TA and their students and less grading would be highly welcomed by many respondents. Some of our graduate students may want this and be suitable for this, some may not. However, there are many classes and we encourage a student-faculty discussion of how to accomodate graduate students who want to lecture/tutor, rather than grade. Perhaps, in some classes, there should be TA-led recitations?
One suggestions was the following, on a trial basis with willing faculty and willing TAs: Instead of having TAs grade all (6 or 8) problems on a problem set, they grade only 3 or 4 of the 6 or 8, chosen at random. In the remainder of their TF time, the students lead recitations down the hill the evening before the problem set is due.