Why is that I don’t ever learn anything from a professor and always from a TA. I mean I know the TA’s at UCSD are mother friggin awesome, but goddamn the disparity. You’re paying students to teach you, not some shit face professor:
On that account: Good teachers
- Have fair comprehensive tests
- Use technology effectively such as podcasts, online homework, clicker questions
- They’re FLUENT in English w/o accent and they’re LOUD
- They discuss the textbook in class, not just supplement it
- They use powerpoints (sometimes)
- They don’t have a ridiculous finals
- There’s a mix of conceptual and regular problems
- They’re human
- They don’t whine about class performance, or just whine in particular
Good TA’s are
- Understanding, and chooses not to be “hard”
- Explains thoroughly his actions without hesitation
- Not arrogant++, and can explain from a simple perspective
- Speaks English LOUD and well
- Legible writer
- Creates his own sample problems
- a workhorse; they do more for the class then themselves; Office hours, don’t whine, show consideration for section
- Supplements the class lectures by creating his own reviews, using his own words
- White from Virginia and have served some military service/ Christian missionary, leader
- Can control the silence in a discussion section
- Interesting; plays inter-mural sports
Examples of exemplary TA’s I’ve had: Sean Rogers (Physics 2A), Randall Kelley(Physics 2B, if only for a week), Andy Stout (Math 20c), Caleb Meier (Math 20 D), Anthony Rush (Chem6a)
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