Responses to Answer Seeking

Learning Goals: 

  1. Instead of teaching students how to do the next part of the homework, you should: 
    1. Help students’ understand how they can divide the problem into smaller parts.
    2. Have them ask you a question, not just state a problem.
    3. Use the socratic method (i.e., ask questions).
    4. Solve a simpler problem or related problem with them because then you don’t have to worry about showing them the answer.
  2. CAs and students should have a clear understanding of the line between collaboration and cheating so that productive collaboration can be encouraged!
  3. We should aim to have students understand how they are going to be graded so that they can use their time wisely and don't need to guess what we expect on an assignment.

There are two videos to watch this week. 

  1. Log in to Mediaspace to watch: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_tdaf9gd3/194122243 Image of MediaSpace, where the video is available.
  2. https://youtu.be/RFyNBmAzSYE Links to an external site.