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Training computer science teaching assistants: a seminar for new TAs

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We describe a one-quarter seminar required of first-time teaching assistants in computer science. The seminar acclimates TAs to teaching undergraduates in the university, to departmental policies and to special problems and issues in teaching computer science. In addition to coverage of general issues surrounding teaching, the seminar includes many participatory exercises that relate specifically to the teaching of computer science. Participants in the seminar perform much better on student evaluations than non-participants.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 27, Issue 1
          March 1995
          402 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/199691
          Issue’s Table of Contents
          • cover image ACM Conferences
            SIGCSE '95: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
            March 1995
            436 pages
            ISBN:089791693X
            DOI:10.1145/199688
            • Chairman:
            • Cary Laxer,
            • Editors:
            • Curt M. White,
            • James E. Miller,
            • Judy Gersting

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