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Wednesday, September 13, 1995
Training for teaching assistants
Graduate students who are teaching assistants this term, and especially
those filling the demanding role of TA for the first time, should be
planning to attend a workshop on Friday afternoon. It runs from 1 to
4 p.m. (in Needles Hall room 3001) and is organized by the
teaching
resource office (TRACE) around this time every September.
"Your role as a TA can be varied," a leaflet notes, "but often
includes some combination of marking assignments, instructing classes,
assisting in laboratories, and answering student questions and concerns
about assignments or marks. In this workshop, we consider several
strategies to assist you in these various roles." More information is
available from TRACE at ext. 3132 or e-mail trace@watserv1.
Across campus, various departments and faculties have been holding their
own TA training sessions s well. Engineering had its annual
"ExpecTAtions" all day last Thursday and Friday; biology has a
session from 4 to 6:30 p.m. tomorrow; and so on.
Phonecentre opens today
Actually,
Bell Canada's Phonecentre has been
open in the Student Life
Centre for the past month or so, and of course it's been busy this week
as arriving students line up to arrange their telephone service. The
centre -- formerly housed in a trailer in parking lot B1 -- is said to
be the first permanently installed Phonecentre on a Canadian campus.
This morning it's holding what a flyer describes as a grand opening,
with the ribbon-cutting set for 10 a.m.
Clothes for Homecoming
Okay, here's a contest, announced by the alumni affairs office, which
is getting ready for Homecoming celebrations November 10-12. The idea
is to design art for the T-shirts that Homecoming volunteers will wear.
(Finished size, 11 by 17 inches; "should work equally well in black and
white or two colour format"; must say "Homecoming '95"; must appeal
to students, alumni, staff and other volunteers.) Entries must be
submitted to the Federation of Students office in the Student Life
Centre, with entrant's name, address and phone number on a separate
sheet. Deadline: September 29 at 4:30. Oh, and the prize: a "Canon
Snappy LX 35mm fixed-focus lens-shutter camera".
Waterloo's Global Connections
"If you believe that the export sector is becoming increasingly important
to Canada's economic survival," the co-op and career services department
has an offer for you. It's a series of training seminars about the
export sector of the economy, under the title
"Global
Connections".
The seminars run September 15, 16, 29 and 30, and there's an
information session about them today -- for an hour, starting at 4:30
p.m., in Davis Centre room 1304. Information: ext. 4026.
Talking of human resources
Faculty and staff (others too, I suppose) are invited to an open
meeting at noontime today. It's the latest in a series of such meetings
sponsored by the "working group on human resources" of the
Commission
on Institutional Planning.
The working group is looking for comment on such topics as "balancing
workloads, salary and benefit packages, development and training,
and effective merit and performance evaluation". The group is co-chaired
by Lorraine Beattie of the library administrative office and Bob Kerton
of the department of economics. Today's meeting runs from 11:30 to 1:30
in the "multi-purpose room" of the Student Life Centre -- the room, opening
off the Great Hall, that links the old and new wings of the Centre.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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