Prof. Kristin Stephens-Martinez

This is also posted on medium . This is post #2 of a 5 post series on how I organize the teaching staff for my 200+ student class. I have seven different roles in my teaching staff organized into a three-layered hierarchy. This post drills down into each teaching staff’s role by outlining their tasks and responsibilities. I close with some general thoughts. The other posts in this series are as follows (I’ll update with links as I post): Overview Teaching staff roles (You are here) How I communicate with my teaching staff How I track the to-do list How I run the head staff meetings Here’s the organization chart from the overview post again as a reminder of all the TA roles. My TA+ is a full-time staff member of the department (not a student) assigned to my class. The TAs are graduate students. UTAs are undergraduate students. Most UTAs teach a lab in pairs with about 25 students per lab. One section of the course includes one lab and two lectures per week. If I have multiple lecture se...

This is also posted on medium . This is post #1 of 5 on how I organize and structure the teaching staff for my introductory computer science (CS1) class, CS101 "Introduction to Computer Science." This class has over 200 students each semester, with the fall semesters typically having 30-50 more students than the spring semesters. This post will be information on my background, context, teaching staff structure with a handy graphic, and organization generally. Future posts will contain more details on teaching assistant (TA) roles and duties, how we communicate, how we track tasks, and how I run my meetings. The other posts in this series are as follows (I’ll update with links as I post): Overview (You are here) Teaching staff roles How I communicate with my teaching staff How I track the to-do list How I run the head staff meetings Background I learned a lot about how to organize TAs when I was in grad school at UC Berkeley. I was a teaching assistant at UC Berkeley's CS1...