This afternoon I began my second stint as a teaching assistant. This time the course: hybrid data analysis.
We have a full load of 20 students with many familiar faces from my research methods class.
I'll be honest, the first day was a little different than last time. It was a lot more of a collaborative effort between the official instructor and me so I had to amend my first day of class style a little bit.
In my heart I wanted to make sure that students didn't feel so anxious about stats or working with numbers so they could bring a different energy to the course, but with a hybrid class there's definitely more logistics to get in than fun.
I did manage to do a short exercise to bring a little energy into the room, but I'm sure that that ten minutes of fun was quickly overshadowed by the 30 minute pretest that the official course instructor found necessary to provide. Smh. I couldn't talk him out of it.
It almost feels a little weird to be back at it so quickly. I'd like to feel much better prepared and more in my own groove in two weeks when we meet again for class. While today wasn't the best, I'm still excited for the course. It will be good to develop some skills with doing online instruction and to see if my ideas for making stats a more student friendly course actually work out. We shall see!
Ill be sure to keep you posted.
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