teaching
Tips for teaching assistants – a student’s perspective
January 18, 2024By: 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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Professors with arbitrary limits on grades.
January 27, 2023By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer Ever leave a negative review for a professor on Rate My Professors? There are only a handful of legitimate gripes on the site, but near the top of the list would be the professor who’ll…
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Excuse my French, but what am I teaching?
July 10, 2017By: Victor Gouchee For those of you who have wondered what it’s like to be a real teacher, or if you can’t choose between teaching high school or elementary, here is an inside look at the joys and stresses that come…
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The secret life of a sessional instructor
November 21, 2016Sessional instructors, also known as adjunct faculty, are every university’s secret. We know they exist, but we don’t know too much about them, what they do, or why job security in academia is such a large issue. Don’t be surprised…
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TAs should be formally taught to teach
May 16, 2016[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e’re all friends here, so we can all agree that a Teaching Assistant (TA) can make or break a course. I’m not suggesting that the university should function without TAs; they provide a crucial service to the school, and a…
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