astro300_f11:todo

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=====TO DO LIST=====

**NEXT WEEK GOALS:**
  - Get a course outline done. Fill out list of topics.
  - Think about the bootcamp.
  - Think about activities and projects.
  - Think about course goals.
  - Look at academic calendar. How many classes do we have?

**AUGUST GOALS:**
  - Get first three meetings ready

**Important dates for C10**
    - First day of section?
    - First quiz?
    - First midterm?
    - Aaron: When did we start E-mailing ppl last year? 
         - We sent the first E-mail on August 17th.
    
Thoughts and things to still do:
    - Homework: Related to next week's activity?
    - Pedagogy readings: Minimal to nonexistent? Reference and make available on website for the interested members.
    - More of ppl at the board
    - Less lecturing, more discussion (hard!)
    - Videotaping early, get GSI Resource Center involved?
    - Section visiting early and more than once? Student-Student visits + Instructor-Student visits
    - Visiting a experienced GSI's section?
    - Meredith's Facebook quiz idea for quiz week 
    - Math anxiety/how to most effectively cater to the algebra-phobic
    - One take-away thing to reflect on after each section?
    - How to cope with teaching anxiety
    - Boardwork critique early?
    - Technology?
    - Gauging student retention/improving retention


** Academic Calendar, Important Events **

   - Friday, Aug 19 : GSI All Day Conference
   - Thursday, Aug 25 : Instruction Begins
   - Monday, Sept 05 : Holiday
   - Friday, Nov 11 : Holiday
   - Thursday, Nov 24 : Holiday
   - Friday, Nov 24 : Holiday
   - Friday, Dec 02 : Classes End

** Possible Dates for Ay300 **
(assumes Ay300 is held on Monday, as has happened in the past)

   - Aug 23,24 (Tuesday, Wednesday ; Bootcamp 1,2)
   - Aug 29 (3)
   - NO CLASS Sept 5 
   - Sept 12 (4)
   - Sept 19 (5)
   - Sept 26 (6)
   - Oct 3 (7)
   - Oct 10 (8)
   - Oct 17 (9)
   - Oct 24 (10)
   - Oct 31 (11)
   - Nov 7 (12)
   - Nov 14 (13)
   - Nov 21 (14)
   - Nov 28 (15)
   - Dec 5 (16)

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