TAing
So about that whole not-updating thing? Yeah, I think I lied. But I still stand that I don't want to feel obligated to update, so don't count on regular updates. Sometimes, though, I do expect myself wanting to update.
I have two TA jobs, due to me stepping up to help the math department when one of their grad students got hospitalized. They are very different to me, since one is Calculus 1 and the other is Concepts of Math. It seems so far as though I am just unable to make them both have good days for me. On Tuesday, I think my Calc recitation sucked and my first Concepts one was awesome. However, today I had the reverse thing happen. Now I did prepare problems a good bit for my calculus class, and that worked well.
I think a lot of it has to do with audience input. My concepts group was not nearly as responsive today, but I also think I had to jump a little more out of their comfort zone. With the things I teach them, this is important (granted, it's always hard to teach proof techniques). However, I'm sort of expecting now my calc class to be pretty unresponsive (if nothing else, because the recitation is at 9:30 am), so preparing review problems and going over them is easier to do with them.
Eh, I've also been sort of emotionally wavy recently, and I had a headache today. I don't have any reason to go beating myself up for this. I more want to think of it as... warning myself, I guess.
I have two TA jobs, due to me stepping up to help the math department when one of their grad students got hospitalized. They are very different to me, since one is Calculus 1 and the other is Concepts of Math. It seems so far as though I am just unable to make them both have good days for me. On Tuesday, I think my Calc recitation sucked and my first Concepts one was awesome. However, today I had the reverse thing happen. Now I did prepare problems a good bit for my calculus class, and that worked well.
I think a lot of it has to do with audience input. My concepts group was not nearly as responsive today, but I also think I had to jump a little more out of their comfort zone. With the things I teach them, this is important (granted, it's always hard to teach proof techniques). However, I'm sort of expecting now my calc class to be pretty unresponsive (if nothing else, because the recitation is at 9:30 am), so preparing review problems and going over them is easier to do with them.
Eh, I've also been sort of emotionally wavy recently, and I had a headache today. I don't have any reason to go beating myself up for this. I more want to think of it as... warning myself, I guess.