Essential Policies for GSIs
Every GSI should be familiar with this brief information about campus-wide and departmental policies that directly affect GSIs, along with the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
getting started
The Challenges of Teaching in the Summer Session
by Conrad Hengesbach, Mathematics
The variety of the students’ backgrounds meant that everybody brought different prerequisites to the table, especially when it came to their training in first-semester calculus… I needed a mechanism to ensure that towards the end of the first week everybody was on the same boat.
Introducing Course Themes through Experiential Learning: A First-Section Activity
by Naomi Leite, Anthropology
The first section presents a double challenge…Simply put, how can a GSI use the first section to engage a disparate group of students who are not necessarily enthusiastic about their enrollment in a course whose topic they don’t yet understand?
Before You Grade: Assignment Design
Effectively designed assignments often result in better written (and easier to grade) papers.
Before You Grade: Statement of Grading Criteria
Examples of grading statements from philosophy and physics.
Deciding What to Use
Issues to consider and questions you should answer before you decide to use instructional technology.