Week 4

This week was probably my most successful yet.

On Monday I had 2 students come in which was less than I'd previously had, but was to be expected following a test. However after changing my office hours from Tuesday to Wednesday I had 3 people show up from 5-6. This was up from the 0 that were typically showing up on Tuesday. The Wednesday crowd seemed to be people with last minute homework problems so I tried to go over generally what was going on in the types of problems they were looking at as well as reminding them to set up equations for x and y. They all seemed to have success with the questions after they had a better understanding of the situation. The scheduled hour ran longer because they continued to have questions, but at quarter past I had to leave for my next class.

Overall I was happy with the turn out this week especially considering it was following a test and I hope to see these numbers continue to grow

John Wallace
Dr Nero
M/F 3-4

Week 3

Two students came in asking for homework help. We resolved all misconceptions and confusions together in about an hour. This session was really productive.

Week 3

Week 3 was two successful office hour sessions. Four students showed up during my first session and one student returned the next day for further assistance. We discussed homework problems and also went over vector properties.

Week 3

James Hare
Professor Broccio
Tuesday 6-7:20pm

This week no students attended my first office hour, but I did have one walk-in student later in the week, as well as one in the think-aloud time slot. I had prepared by taking some notes on the harder concepts of the videos and working the more difficult homework problems.

The student for the think-aloud hour performed the task well and outlined her thoughts effectively. However, she missed a key note in the question and was not confident of her answer. I asked her to read the question more carefully for the second part and she was much more confident that time. Overall it took less time than I had anticipated.

For my walk-in hour when one student showed up, I was able to help her understand projectile motion better conceptually and help her develop a procedure for solving problems.

Week 3

Tom Reynolds
Physics 175
Hong MWF 9:00

There were just two students this week.  They came with a few questions about the homework. They mainly just needed to understand exactly what the question was asking and once they understood that, they knew how to solve it mainly on their own.

Week 3

9/21/15
Faith Odutan
Courtney Group

9/23/15
Nobody

9/24/15
Hannah Tremel
Annie Yan
Mary Rostom
Kevin Jiang

There was a test this week so I had several visitors to my office hours. Most of the questions were from the practice test or book. One of the students had no problem with setting up the problems but always arrived at the wrong answer when she solved. It turned out her problem was that she was using the wrong direction, and thus the wrong sign on a lot of her numbers. I pointed this out and she seemed understood what was wrong. Other students had some trouble on questions with multiple parts. Some of them had trouble manipulating the equations in substituting variables or setting two equations equal.

Week of 9/21-25

I had two students come in during office hours this week to ask me a hw question. The students had difficulty understading how to apply the concepts from class to the hw problems. Once they understood the concept, they were able to get the problem.