Day 3: Different kinds of students
All the slides used during the third day are found here.
- FileSlides for day 3: student profilesPDF document
These slides contain student profiles of four different students. We dealt with three of these profiles in class.
- FileSlides for day 3: administrative duties FilePDF document
These slides inform you about your administrative duties as a teaching assistant.
Read the slides for day 3. They contain four student profiles describing how they act. Pick a student profile of your choice and think about the following:
- Why does the student act as he or she does?
- What are the the consequences for their learning?
- How might this student behave in class? What does this look like in the eyes of the teaching assistant and to the other students?
- What can the teaching assistant do to help this student?
Write about one page of text describing your thoughts.