Lecture 0

Lecture 0, Fri 09/28

Orientation to the course (Phill)

About the course

Tutoring for your specific course (40%)
190J specific assignments and homeworks (including course specific hwks) (60%)
- Projects (2): 40%
- Homeworks (3 - 6 ): 20% CS190J hwks are available on the course website, course specific hwks will be given by the instructor

Responsive: As a tutor you will be working with the instructor and the students. You are expected to respond to be respond appropriately and in a timely fashion (slack/Piazza/email)
Reliabile: This means showing up ON TIME to your scheduled lab hours, keeping up with your commitments and deadlines
Proactive: Observe the students in your lab sections and offer to assist them. You must appear “available” to students during your hours and not immersed in your devices.
Prepared: Read the lab instructions carefully before appearing for your sections, read the lecture slides
Helpful: Be respectful and try your best. Say I don’t know when you really don’t but seek help from the TA or instructor to make sure that the student received the help they need.
Ethical: You must follow good ethics in your ineteraction with students and are required by university rules to report any cases of harrassment or inappropriate behavior to you instructor immediately

An observation of one-on-one tutoring by your supervising instructor: Schedule these observations with your course specific instructor in Week 4
A final paper summarizing your learning in the course: Due on the last day of instruction

For more information please read the syllabus!

Various assignments related to preparation for being a better mentor, and learning about CS Education.

Bios and photos to share with students. For more information see h00 writeup

Please read and summarize one research paper about CS Education.
There is a list of suggested papers here.
- Or you can find your own using the ACM Digital Library to look for papers in the list of conferences and journals indicated on the H01 assignment description.
- Any paper that is “related work” to the ones in the list is acceptable (i.e. cited by, or cites).
- If you go further afield than that, please check in with your supervising instructor; send them a link to the paper in the Digital Library. (The “ACM Ref”) is a good way to cite it.
Please submit your work by uploading to Gauchospace. Preferred format is link to Google Drive document; acceptable alternative is uploading a PDF.