Draft Head TA Job Desc. 30 Nov 2010 Given 12 UG TAs for about 110 students Meet weekly with profs for planning Week I: instruct TAs on grading programming assignments Week V: instruct TAs on grading projects Organize ``Construction Parties'' to build lab components (Weeks VI, VII?) Spool-winding, Soldering, mounting components Personnel balancing and juggling. Deal with absences of TAs from their designated lab sessions Quality control on grading (random checks) Enforce grading timeliness and promptitude. Maintain course spreadsheet: TA's grades --> Head TA --> Blackboard Apportion grading amongst TAs: maybe... Weekly exercises: 6 TAs (20 students each) Projects: 12 TAs (10 students each) In emergencies, substitute for missing TAs in lab sessions. Occasionally substitute for prof, delivering lectures. Transmit profs' advice, schedule, laboratory session subjects, etc. to TAs weekly. Make sure TAs understand the technical issues.