As a Teaching Assistant, you can be an invaluable asset to both your teacher, and your students. Picking up questions and solving problems to ease the workload on your teacher can help them provide a better education for the students, and generally make their teaching experience easier. Students benefit from having more than one person they can turn to for problem solving, and hearing multiple opinions on an issue has a better chance of helping them solve it. Specifically within the Game Design field, extra eyes on code can help spot issues that would have normally gone unnoticed, and due to visual design being so subjective, multiple opinions can provide more objective and useful criticism. Additionally, being a teaching assistant is greatly beneficial to the TA, and provides a unique educational opportunity. I greatly enjoyed being a teaching assistant, and I learned a lot about working with students, problem solving, and how to present myself as a role model to my fellow students. I would love to do this kind of thing again, and recommend it to anyone who is passionate about their pathway.
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This year with Mr. Bourgeois has been a blast. Working with students, helping Mr. B help them learn, running errands, and working on projects for him has been informational and fun. I've expanded upon my ability to teach students and help them through material, as well as increased my familiarity with the materials they're working on, such as Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Unity. I've greatly benefited from being Mr. B's teaching assistant, and I believe that both the students and Mr. B have benefited from my work and effort.
This quarter as a teaching assistant has been fairly uneventful. Besides running the odd job, such as posting flyers in the hall ways or running an errand, I've mostly been left to work on my CTE Advanced Studies project. However, I did get to evaluate the work of other classes as they did board games, which was entertaining.
Being a teacher assistant for Mr. Bourgeois is fairly easy. Occasionally I have help out a kid with something or run an errand, but beyond that I basically have the period to work on my own stuff. That does come with the exception of cleaning the desks, which I have been tasked with for the past couple of weeks. That has been taxing and time consuming, entailing me to scrape the years worth of gum off the bottom of the desks. Fortunately, once that's done it's done, and I don't have to worry about it again.
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AuthorI am 17 years old, and currently enrolled in Durham School of the Arts. Within the Game Design field, I'm looking to become a game writer or a programmer, preferably a combination of the two.
The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public School Archives
June 2018
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