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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:45 - 17:00 at Meeting Rooms 319-321 - Panel

As Computer Science undergraduate programs continue to increase in response to the still-unmet student demand, one growing trend is to engage current students as instructors of record, allowing for increases in course offerings and/or enrollments and giving these students extraordinary experiences in teaching. Despite these benefits, there are significant concerns that could be raised: do these student instructors have the maturity and training to handle the additional job requirements such as mentoring junior teaching staff, resolving difficult interpersonal situations, addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) issues, and garnering respect from students who might be a similar age? The goal of this panel is not to claim this solution is novel, but to share lessons learned, including the student instructor perspective, from faculty whose four institutions have been doing this successfully for years, each taking different approaches to engagement and pre-service professional development.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb

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15:45 - 17:00
15:45
75m
Talk
Lessons Learned from Supporting Student-Teachers as Lead University Instructors
Panels
Justin Hsia University of Washington, Seattle, Daniel Garcia University of California Berkeley, Sarah Heckman North Carolina State University, Swapneel Sheth University of Pennsylvania