TAs

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Tips for teaching assistants – a student’s perspective

Peak Web January 18, 2024

By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer To be honest, attending a 50-minute tutorial on top of a two hour lecture can feel painful, and even useless. Whether or not you find tutorials useful, it’s frustrating to be stuffed into a miniature classroom with a bunch of students who refuse to participate. It’s no doubt frustrating for the TA, who wants to help their students but cannot figure out how to engage with them. They are just trying to do their job, but it can be difficult to do so when students are not always focused on class discussion. For this reason,…

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Guys, I know I’m the hottest TA at SFU, but you need to stop masturbating during tutorial

EIC May 28, 2012

By Pamela Berman Okay, then, moving on, who can tell me the significance of the Canadian Radio League in establishing the CBC? Anyone? No? Did anyone do the readings last night? Look,  I know it’s getting close to midterms, but…

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