Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
I was an undergraduate teaching assistant for the computer science department of George Mason University from my Sophomore year of college until my senior year. During that time, I helped many students of various levels of skill and motivation to better understand the course material. • Assisted students during lab and personal office hours for the course CS112 – introductory programming. During this time, the students I assisted were often very new, some of which had never coded in their lives and/or found the logic patterns difficult to wrap their heads around.• Assisted students during lectures and personal office hours for the course CS211 – Object Oriented Programming. In this course the students were generally more familiar with coding as a whole, and thus the projects and problems were more complex. Much of my time as a TA for this class was spent analyzing other students code and their specific coding habits so as to identify issues and bugs within that they could not find themselves. • Graded and provided detailed feedback for quizzes and projects in the course CS306 – Law and Ethics, as well as assisted during lecture times. In this course my efforts and responsibilities had a very real and direct effect on the students grades, and thus I would view and review each persons submitted work to make sure that I did not make any mistakes, as well as make sure I graded each person as fairly as possible. Much of the work graded for the projects were partially subjective in nature, so I made double certain to hold each group to the same standards and reasoning as the other.