Prof. Kristin Stephens-Martinez

This is also posted on medium . This is the last post of a 5 blog post series on how I organize the teaching staff for my 200+ student class. This post discusses how I run my weekly meeting with my head staff. The head staff is a subgroup of my teaching staff that helps me organize all the others. In this post, I discuss how I split the meeting into two phases to allow some head staff to leave when talking about topics that are not relevant to their responsibilities. I also include a discussion on what I do between meetings because that is just as important as what happens during. The other posts in this series are as follows (I’ll update with links as I post): Overview Teaching staff roles How I communicate with my teaching staff How I track the to-do list How I run the head staff meetings (You are here) Terminology Rather than require you to read my teaching staff roles post , here is a quick refresher: Teaching Associate (TA+)  — A full-time department staff member (not a student) a...

This is also  posted on medium . This is post #4 of a 5 post series on how I organize the teaching staff for my 200+ student class. This post discusses how I track all the class’s tasks. I start with an overview of Trello , the tool I use to track tasks. Next is a discussion on my overall task management approach. I then move on to how I use Trello to structure the task lists, common and recurring tasks, and a task’s life cycle. Finally, I close with the advantages I see for having an externalized task list. The other posts in this series are as follows (I’ll update with links as I post): Overview Teaching staff roles How I communicate with my teaching staff How I track the to-do list (You are here) How I run the head staff meetings Terminology Rather than require you to read my teaching staff roles post , here is a quick refresher: Teaching Associate (TA+)  — A full-time department staff member (not a student) assigned to my class. She serves as my right-hand person with many and...

This is also  posted on medium . This is post #3 of a 5 post series on how I organize the teaching staff for my 200+ student class. This post discusses how I communicate with my teaching staff. I first go over how the semester starts because part of communication is setting the tone for the semester. Then I spend the rest of the post discussing how I center all of my communication in Slack , a chat tool that enables organizing conversations through channels. I discuss who is in which channel, how I use Slack integrations, my Slack philosophy, and Slack etiquette. The other posts in this series are as follows (I’ll update with links as I post): Overview Teaching staff roles How I communicate with my teaching staff (You are here) How I track the to-do list How I run the head staff meetings Terminology Rather than require you to read my teaching staff roles post , here is a quick refresher: Teaching Associate (TA+) — A full-time department staff member (not a student) assigned to my c...