Meeting Minutes: 08-03-2007

Announcements:

  • Workshop date has been moved to September 8, 2007 as the original date was in conflict with labor day weekend engagement.
  • [After the meeting] Ashok has asked to be excused from this effort on account of his qualifying exam that is scheduled for September 3.
  • We decided to spend the next two meeting in finalizing the microteaching exercises on grading and interacting with students and faculty, respectively, along with the other 'house-keeping' items.

Action items:

  • Get list of TAs from electrophysics [Diane] and integrate those TAs into the microteaching groups [Bilal].
  • Get other TAs involved in this effort, especially TAs from Communications area. [Diane]
  • Confirm room reservations and check for video recording equipment (carried over from the previous meeting) [Diane].
  • Prepare the demo microteaching lecture and the lecture planning guidelines (continued from the previous meeting) [Mark R.].
  • Prepare the moderator evaluation form for microteaching sessions [Sean will post the first draft and ALL others will add to it].
  • Contact panelists for the panel discussion and post confirmed panelists on the Wiki. [Shesha]
  • Prepare seed questions for the panelists, post them under the Panel Discussion page (continued from the previous meeting) [Shesha].
  • Update the page on Grading with the ideas we discussed at the meeting [Bilal]. Integrate these ideas with the structure that was being planned [Animesh].
  • Develop a structure for the interacting with students and faculty exercise [We currently have no one working on this].
  • Email speakers about the contents of their respective talks [Bilal].

Our next meeting will be on Friday, August 17, at 2:30pm in EEB 349. The key agenda item in that meeting will be the microteaching exercise on Grading.

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