====== Additional Notes on TA Requests for Fall, 2014 ======

  * Jodi: if there are additional TA candidates left after primary assignments are made, she would appreciate having a TA assigned to her (though she is making no formal request)
  * John: Matt Stein, interested in astronomy/astrophysics, may make an excellent candidate for the Astro course + labs.
  * Simon: my TA will work a full load of 20 hrs/week. 

===== Simon Dalley =====

<code>
1301 

lab (supervision and grading) 6+6 hrs

assignments (grading) 6 hrs (native or 
good command of English essential)

1303

help sessions (shared between two 1303 sections 
and one 1307 section) 10 hrs - I suggest we cover 
this with 3 TAs and 2hrs/day with 2 TAs present at 
any one time. Check with Ryszard and Roberto.

assignments and tests (grading) 10 hrs

</code>

Private note: try to assign two TAs to Simon for this course, one with a heavier load and a lighter for the other.

===== Ryszard Stroynowski =====

<code>
For the 1303 TAs - I request 2 graders and 1 good 
communicator for help sessions.

each weak graders will have to grade about 240 problems 
and once a month about 600 problems. (~120 students). from 
padt experience when i check it it rakes me about 5 min per 
problem, in afew cases few more. That gives 1220 min or 
about 20 hours each week and twice as many once a month.  
in addition there always are makup tests for participants 
in university sponored sports and other activities.  
</code>

===== Ana Firan =====

<code>
I am teaching 2 sessions of PHYS1304 this semester.
In the past few years we had "synchronized" homework 
for PHYS1304 and PHYS1308 in order to have common help 
session four times a week( you can take a look at the hw 
assignment on wileyPlus; it is listed under the name joint).
Please let me know if you still want to do so.
</code>

<code>
It is a little hard to estimate since I do not know how many 
students are enrolled in each session( I cannot see the semester 
listed on myschedule yet). If a assume that there are 50 students 
in each session and since I have weekly quizzes and monthly exams 
I would estimate an average of at least 10 hours per week.
</code>

===== Eligible Graduate TA Candidates =====

  * Benjamin Clark
  * Ryan Staten (expressed interest in 1320)
  * Daniel Jardin (if 1301, give him the lighter load of homework grading)
  * Eric Godat
  * Govinda Dhunghana

  * Bo-Ting Wang (theoretical classes)
  * Keping Xie
  * Madalyn McKay
  * Matthew Feickert (maybe a lighter teaching load)
  * Matthew Stein
  * Peilong Wang