Starting Your Year as a TIR
Here are a few things to think about as you start your new year:
- Finding your way around campus
- Within the Physics Department
- supplies
- budget
- calendar
- phone numbers
- computer access to building/campus network
- learning faculty respopnsibilities
- learning support staff responsibilities
- your office (do you have your own space?)
- what is your campus mailing address?
- where are the mailboxes located?
- Between Departments
- Physics
- Education
- Other sciences
- Location of Bookstore & Bookstore Purchase Procedures
- Where do you find something to eat on campus? Off campus?
- Working with Physics Department Faculty & Staff
- Professors
- Teaching Assistants
- Research Assistants
- Assisting with Classes
- Course revisions
- Lab changes
- Lecture changes
- Meetings
- Weekly with TA's? As a TIR, you may be the only one who experiences lab and lecture besides students. The lab presence proves helpful when you and professor speak about the lecture portion.
- Department Meetings, when are the regularly scheduled university meetings and are you included?
- Department Timelines
- Working with undergrads
- Working with recent grads
- Mentoring recent grads
- Induction activities with working teachers
- PhysTEC Timelines
- What are the PhysTEC team expectations?
- When are the PhysTEC locally scheduled meetings?
- When are the PhysTEC nationally scheduled meetings?
