PED-131.9000 Teaching assistant as a learning instructor (2 cr, spring 2020, Group A)
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Welcome to the course page of teaching assistant as a learning instructor.
The course, comprising four three-hour teaching sessions, is designed to provide you with tools and ideas to support your work as a teaching assistant. Each session will deal with one or two themes in an interactive manner.
You can earn two credit points by attending all four teaching sessions and doing all the course work.
Learning outcomes
After the course you will
- be able to observe the classroom environment from the learning perspective and identify aspects to support students' learning process
- recognise ways to support students' study motivation
- identify your role as a learning instructor
Course schedule and place
The schedule for the course is the following:
- Tuesday 4.2.2020 at 13.00-16.00 in class U410b in Otakaari 1
- Thursday 27.2.2020 at 13.00-16.00 in class U6 (13-14) and in class U410b (14-16) in Otakaari 1
- Wednesday 18.3.2020 at 9.00–12.00 (online)
- Tuesday 31.3.2020 at 9.00–12.00 (online)
Information and support: How to teach remotely?
- Step-by-step guides and online trainings for Aalto teachers on how to teach remotely - especially during corona restrictions: https://wiki.aalto.fi/display/OPIT/Coronavirus+and+teaching+in+Aalto+University (remember to log in)
- Step-by-step guidelines to all online tools used in Aalto (MyCourses, Panopto...) https://wiki.aalto.fi/display/OPIT/Home
- Quick guide to using Zoom in teaching: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/zoom-quick-guide
Course teachers/instructors
This course is organised by Schools of CHEM, ELEC, ENG & SCI and in cooperation with Aalto University Pedagogical training network.
The course teachers are Kirsti Keltikangas (ELEC) and Jukka Välimäki (CHEM) (both emails firstname.surname@aalto.fi).
This is the link to the Aalto University e-course on its code of conduct. Completing this e-course is a mandatory requirement to pass this course. Please complete it and mark it as done in the completion progress bar on your MyCourse page when you have completed it. The deadline for completing this e-course is 29.3.2020, but you can do it now already.
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