MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6 003 Signals and Systems Fall 2005 TA Information and Course Policies 1 Email and Webpage The course webpage is at http web mit edu 6 003 www and the following email lists have been created for your use 6 003 ta mit edu TAs of 6 003 6 003 instr mit edu Instructors lecture and recitation of 6 003 6 003 staff mit edu Instructors and TAs of 6 003 6 003 students mit edu All 6 003 students and staff of 6 003 6 003 secX mit edu Each of the sections gets their own email list where each TA or instructor can contact their individual students The X should be replaced with your appropriate section number 6 003 grader mit edu Graders of 6 003 Kushan is the sole webmaster it is best if exactly one person is given this duty He is responsible for maintaining the course website which includes posting the following All major email announcements All paper handouts from lecture Problem Sets and solutions according to schedule Labs and solutions Tutorials and solutions Exam Review Packets and the Marathon Office Hours schedule Blank Exams their solutions and the score statistics and histograms 2 Staff Meetings The 6 003 staff will meet every Tuesday from September 6 Registration Day to December 13 except possibly October 11 from 1pm to 2pm right after lecture in the Allen Room 36 462 We will discuss general 6 003 issues and plans for the upcoming lectures and recitations The 6 003 TAs and Stephen will meet every Friday from September 9 to December 9 except possibly November 11 and 25 from 4pm to 5pm in the Allen Room 36 462 though this may change We will discuss the following week s tutorials 1 3 Lectures and Recitations 3 1 Attendance All TAs are required to attend the lectures Recitations are held on Wednesdays and Fridays and run by the recitation instructor Each TA is assigned to one or two sections both taught by the same recitation instructor The TA need only visit one recitation section on any given day but where possible attend both sections once a week Since graded homework will be given back to the students in recitations the TA should work out with the instructor how to get homework to the section not being attended that day 3 2 Preparation Some subset of TAs depending on our individual schedules right before lecture will either take care of the handouts the chalkboard or demos for lecture We will discuss amongst ourselves how to divide this responsibility The following is a description of what these tasks entail Copies Taking Care of Handouts at Lectures The Lecture handouts will be available in the course secretary s office 36 477 Please arrive at her office by 11 45 a m to ensure that the handouts are in place for the beginning of the lecture Make sure to place half of the handouts on one side of the room and half on the other side After lecture collect the handouts on both sides of the room Bring the remaining handouts to the staff meetings following lecture At the staff meeting split the remaining copies of the lecture notes between the TAs After staff meeting place any other handouts in the filing cabinet outside room 38 592 Chun Chieh will take care of lecture handouts Chalk Clean Blackboards Write Announcements Erase all of the blackboards before the lecture begins Please arrive by 11 55 a m to ensure that you are finished before the lecture begins Write the announcements for the day on the blackboard Use the top board on the left end The announcements should always include what handouts are given out and what handouts are collected Demos Taking Care of Lecture Demos Meet with Prof Hu and Stephen on the Monday before a lecture demo You will also meet with Lourenco Pires lrpires mit edu the technical instructor in charge of setting up the demos You will see the dry run of the demo Lourenco will give you instructions on how to move the demo to lecture by 11 55 a m Because many of the demos are delicate please be extremely careful when moving them and never let students play with them Kevin and Stephen will take care of moving demos In addition your recitation instructor may have additional handouts or demos for recitation and may ask you to help distribute them or set them up There will be few handouts this semester but the remaining copies of the handouts from the lectures and recitations should be brought to the file cabinet in front of the TA offices These are very important responsibilities If you are assigned these tasks and for some reason you cannot do it for a particular day please contact the rest of the TAs immediately 2 3 3 Covering lecture and recitation Occasionally your recitation instructor may be out of town or unavailable to teach recitation He or she generally asks another instructor to substitute But if you d like to cover for him or her please volunteer Likewise Prof Hu will usually ask another professor to cover lecture for him but in the past he has allowed TAs to teach lecture 4 Tutorials Tutorials are held in small groups typically 5 10 students Each TA is expected to prepare for and hold three tutorials per section per week starting the second week of classes The tutorials should only be given on Mondays and Tuesdays Stephen will sign up for the tutorial rooms on Registration Day In order to reserve the necessary rooms Stephen will need a list from each of you giving the days and times that you want to have tutorials It is typically easier to have several tutorials back to back on the same day Note that tutorials should start promptly at 5 minutes after the hour and end 5 minutes before the hour During the Friday TA meetings we will typically discuss what types of topics should be covered in tutorial and there will be standardized tutorial materials prepared by TAs who work on pset solutions for the appropriate materials These handouts will be based on those from Spring 2004 It is strongly recommended that each TA modify the standardized materials to meet her his recitation coverage In addition the past TAs had prepared their LATEXtutorial notes and some of them are available in the course locker We will use the following procedure for tutorial handout preparation 4 1 Procedure 1 The lead TA prepares a rough electronic tutorial document a week before the tutorial is given Material for tutorial X is in the mit 6 003 F05 tutorials tX directory He sends an email to all TAs when this is done As these handouts are based on those from Spring 2004 please be sure to
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