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Additional guidelines and resources for reflection paper
Part I: Plan for taping, due Sept. 30th
We will assist you in videotaping your teaching, but you will need to take the lead in organizing the logistics in advance. Decide if there's a particular GAE, recitation session, or lab session coming up that you would like taped. Please write a quick paragraph (can be via e-mail) with the date/time of the lesson and a brief description of the content/activity. Also, let us know your preferences for microphone placement -- would you prefer for a microphone to be placed with a particular small group, or would you prefer to wear a microphone as you walk around? (Placement with a small group means that you would need to be sure to visit that group, but you might also be able to get a sense of what that group talks about when you're not around. Wearing the microphone would likely give you more of a range of interactions to choose from.) Videotaping does not always go smoothly in the first attempt (due to issues with microphones or batteries, etc.), please give yourself plenty of time to try to record more than once if needed. Be sure to have a useable video-recording of your teaching by Oct. 22th at the latest (this will give you two weeks to watch and analyze the video before the paper is due).
Part II: Reflection paper, due Nov. 5th
Your analysis of selected interactions with students should be ~4 pages single-spaced and include transcript. (It would be most helpful to integrate transcript into your narrative where relevant -- for instance, if you want to talk about a particular exchange two students had about protein folding, include transcript of the exchange right before your discussion of the exchange.) Each paper should include the following:
Please spend the vast majority of your paper discussing #2 & #3 above.