Bagels and Coffee

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Bagels and Coffee Meeting #3

Activity one (10-15 minutes):


Ice breaker
Introduce yourselves. And then answer the icebreaking question: What is your happiest memory
as a TA? Or your happiest memory as a student involving your TA?
Activity two (25-30 minutes):
The main activity for the session:
Ideally, we will break into groups of five-seven. Hopefully, each group will have at least one or
two experienced TAs. Also, let’s try to make sure that one of the facilitators are there: Ingrid,
Renee, you and maybe some one else, say Katie?
1. One challenge that you still face as a TA. One challenge that you feel you’ve successfully
dealt with as a TA.
2. For those who haven’t TA ed they could talk in terms of their student experience.
Suggestions: Differences in cultural backgrounds, Balancing time for research with time for TA
duties, being nice with my students versus getting enough time for research, things like that.
Activity three (10-15 minutes):
Checkout
We could go around in a big group and share one most interesting thing that we learned from
the group. Suggestions include: did you talk about cultural differences? Did you bring up more
practical issues like grading tips and so on? Did you talk about balancing time? Did you talk about
specific student experiences? Any challenging students that taught you specific lessons?

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