The document summarizes a meeting agenda for Bagels and Coffee with three activities:
1. An icebreaker where TAs and students introduce themselves and share their happiest memory involving a TA.
2. A main group activity where participants discuss challenges they face or have faced as TAs, and students discuss their experiences. Suggested topics include cultural differences, balancing research and TA duties, and being nice versus having enough time.
3. A checkout where each person shares one interesting thing they learned, such as discussions around cultural differences, grading tips, balancing time, or challenging student experiences.
The document summarizes a meeting agenda for Bagels and Coffee with three activities:
1. An icebreaker where TAs and students introduce themselves and share their happiest memory involving a TA.
2. A main group activity where participants discuss challenges they face or have faced as TAs, and students discuss their experiences. Suggested topics include cultural differences, balancing research and TA duties, and being nice versus having enough time.
3. A checkout where each person shares one interesting thing they learned, such as discussions around cultural differences, grading tips, balancing time, or challenging student experiences.
The document summarizes a meeting agenda for Bagels and Coffee with three activities:
1. An icebreaker where TAs and students introduce themselves and share their happiest memory involving a TA.
2. A main group activity where participants discuss challenges they face or have faced as TAs, and students discuss their experiences. Suggested topics include cultural differences, balancing research and TA duties, and being nice versus having enough time.
3. A checkout where each person shares one interesting thing they learned, such as discussions around cultural differences, grading tips, balancing time, or challenging student experiences.
The document summarizes a meeting agenda for Bagels and Coffee with three activities:
1. An icebreaker where TAs and students introduce themselves and share their happiest memory involving a TA.
2. A main group activity where participants discuss challenges they face or have faced as TAs, and students discuss their experiences. Suggested topics include cultural differences, balancing research and TA duties, and being nice versus having enough time.
3. A checkout where each person shares one interesting thing they learned, such as discussions around cultural differences, grading tips, balancing time, or challenging student experiences.
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?