PED-131.9000 Teaching Assistant as a Learning Instructor Autumn 2020 (Group B)
Substitute assignment for day 3
Completion requirements
If you could not attend the session or face technical difficulties during the day, please read the slides for day 3.
Please do this this assignment, if you were present less than half of the session.
Please read also carefully the slides by study psychologist Paula Sjöblom.
The materials contain four fictional student profiles describing how they act. Pick a student profile of your choice and think about the following questions:
- 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 (1) A4 page of text describing your thoughts and reflections.