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Encourage students to make Scratch sprites smaller when making games in order to ease game play and make it more fun.
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Encourage students to make variables visible in Scratch to help them debug their code.
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Show students multiple examples of iteration in Scratch to help them understand and recognize more abstract programming patterns.
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Misconception: Students often forget to include a FOREVER block around IF blocks in Scratch when programming games.
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Create a code of conduct for unpaid teaching assistants (TAs) to make department and institution expectations clear so violations are easily acted on.
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Train teaching assistants on how to provide feedback using the growth mindset so they can keep their students motivated to improve their skills and understanding.
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Create an environment where students feel safe approaching teaching assistants for help to ensure they get all the support they need to succeed in the course.
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Train teaching assistants to use the Socratic method so they can help students improve their reasoning skills.
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Create an online staff chat-room to help undergraduate teaching assistants form community, ask for help, and share teaching strategies.
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Host group grading sessions to provide opportunities for teaching assistants to interact with each other and avoid falling behind in grading.
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Organize weekly sessions for teaching assistants to discuss their experiences assisting students, learn from each other, and prepare for teaching.
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Give teaching assistants (TAs) opportunities for contributing to the course and TA program to increase their investment in the class and reduce your workload.
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Adjust all assignments to be a certain length in order to create and maintain consistent deadlines (e.g., weekly) so students remember when their homework is due.
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Use the w3schools.com online HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tutorials to teach students web development through concrete examples rather than abstract definitions.
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Misconception: Students confuse static and final variables in Java.
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Misconception: Students mix up whether model class names and database table names should be singular or plural in Ruby on Rails.
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Keep a running list of bugs you encounter to share with students so that they can see you run into bugs too.
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Write an exception inside of a loop, then outside of a loop when live-coding so that students learn the effects of placement on exceptions.
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Misconception: Students have trouble understanding the difference between Get, Post, Put/Patch, and Delete in Ruby on Rails Routing.
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