Students (EECS TA Guide)
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Disabled students
Disabled students may request special accommodations from the MIT Disabilities Services Office (DSO) for their classes. Such students are responsible for notifying the teaching staff within a reasonable time period and providing them with documentation from the DSO describing what the staff should do. It is very important to maintain student confidentiality. Under no circumstances should you ever ask the student what his/her disability is; you are only responsible for providing the accommodations as directed by the DSO.
Tutoring individual students
As a TA, you will inevitably be asked at some point to tutor an individual student. However, this should be handled properly to avoid appearing to favor certain students and provide them with an unfair advantage. TAs should certainly help individual students during office hours. But, TAs should not regularly set up times for private tutorials for individual students. When a TA is available to teach (such as office hours), those times should be known to all students, and all students should be welcome to attend. If a student needs more individual help than the TA is able to give, then the TA should recommend that the student check out the HKN Tutoring Program.
Switching recitation sections
(Talk it here)
Dealing with suspected plagiarism
(Talk it here. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!)
Relationship between TAs and students
(Be friendly, but not their friend)
