TA Tips: A Checklist for Large Enrollment Classes
This is a checklist to serve as a guide to set up expectations, organization, and communication for large enrollment classes.
Setting Expectations
- Define TA role.
- Emphasize importance of being consistent.
- Build a community as a teaching team.
- Assign a "lead" TA.
Organization
- Hold daily/weekly meetings.
- Provide access to training in Collab tools you will use.
- Use sample training scenarios for classroom management.
- Talk through typical misconceptions and challenges related to assistant duties.
- Provide a guiding question sheet (questions that cover the big ideas of the material).
- Provide grading rubrics.
Communication
- Use group chat apps like a Zoom Chat Channel, Slack, etc.
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