Computer & Information Science – Temple University

I was Lab Assistant for Temple’s CIS department for the 2007 to 2008 academic year. As a lab assistant I sat in on lab sessions for a CIS Intro course: Computers and Applications–a BBA core requirement. The focus of the lab sessions was to give the class a hands-on experience with Dreamweaver and Excel–and other office applications including Word, Powerpoint, and Access. My role in the classroom was to float around and help people keep up with the lecture. Outside of the classroom I offered everyone office hours, tutoring by appointment, email support, and I was responsible for grading all of the assignments.

This was a great experience; I learned more about the applications we taught then what I could have even potentially learned when I took the course. Through the year I became very effective at teaching the applications and material taught in the course–which turns out to be fairly universal skill. I took interest in pushing the scope of the class and investigating topics on my own.