Also compare the number of teaching assistants leading discussion sections.
In leading discussion sections, I found that focusing on the importance of grasping the essential mathematical tools sometimes obscured the fact that the methods I was teaching had a greater purpose.
Within Information Science, students may work as Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (TAs), which are responsible for leading discussion sections, developing assignments, grading assignments and/or exams, holding office hours, answering Piazza questions, and/or other duties as assigned.
The standard argument against graduate-student unions, one adopted by the lone dissenter in last week's federal ruling, is that graduate students are "primarily" students, and that any work they do, like leading discussion sections or grading papers, is educational in nature — that is, they are learning a skill that they will need on the job market.
The standard argument against graduate-student unions, one adopted by the lone dissenter in last week's federal ruling, is that graduate students are "primarily" students, and that any work they do, like leading discussion sections or grading papers, is educational in nature that is, they are learning a skill that they will need on the job market.
Step I – No graduate level teaching experience, or has completed fewer than four semesters of teaching as a GSI at UCB. Duties include leading discussion sections or labs, instructing prescribed course content [e.g.,: foreign language courses or Reading & Composition courses where supervising faculty member is entirely responsible for prescribing course content, tests, readings, etc.].
Will you lead discussion sections?
And that was going to stop with the election of this new [Democratic] governor". Teaching assistants do the bulk of hands-on, small-group teaching to freshmen and sophomores at UC's eight undergraduates campuses, often leading discussion groups or laboratory sections that supplement large lecture courses.
Take turns leading discussion.
In practice, this experience almost always takes the form of leading "precepts" (discussion sections) in undergraduate lecture courses.
Participants crafted and delivered one- to two-minute presentations such as they might give on the first day leading their discussion section or lab and received friendly feedback.
