Teaching Our Teacher Assistants to Thrive: A Reflexive, Inclusive Approach to Scalable Undergraduate Education
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Teaching assistants (TAs) are well-poised to improve student performance and retention—particularly for those from minoritized backgrounds. In this experience report, we present a TA pedagogy course that trains TAs to effectively teach large-scale undergraduate courses in data science—and does so by centering inclusion and the classroom as a social space of engagement. This curriculum is grounded in a justice-oriented pedagogy framework and also tackles the interdisciplinary teaching skills necessary to teach data science. Course topics cover pedagogical frameworks and evidence-based teaching practices alongside professional and management skills that reflect the TA’s dual positionalities as instructor and student. We present our experiences with offering this semester-long course and discuss how to adapt this course to other higher education institutions.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Thu 27 FebDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
15:45 - 17:00 | |||
15:45 18mTalk | How Novices Use Program Visualizations to Understand Code that Manipulates Data Tables Papers | ||
16:03 18mTalk | Jupyter Analytics: A Toolkit for Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Student Activity in Jupyter NotebooksGlobal Papers Zhenyu Cai EPFL, Richard Davis EPFL, Raphaël Mariétan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Roland Tormey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Pierre Dillenbourg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | ||
16:22 18mTalk | Teaching Our Teacher Assistants to Thrive: A Reflexive, Inclusive Approach to Scalable Undergraduate Education Papers Lisa Yan UC Berkeley | ||
16:41 18mTalk | Toolkit for Educators of Data Science: Using physical computing to support data science education in the classroom.K12 Papers Lorraine Underwood Lancaster University, Elizabeth Edwards Lancaster University, Elisa Rubegni Lancaster University, Steve Hodges Lancaster University, John Vidler Lancaster University, Joe Finney Lancaster University |