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Roxy Becker served as a teaching assistant for a communications course this semester. She attended every class, provided guidance to students on assignments, held office hours, responded promptly to emails, graded assignments, and taught two class sessions. Roxy also input grades, helped determine a grading curve, and improved her teaching skills from her first to second time instructing based on self-reflection. The instructor affirmed that Roxy greatly assisted with the course and helped students better understand the material.
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- 1. May 3, 2016 To whom it may concern: Ms. Roxy Becker served as the teaching assistant for COMM 3110, Persuasion Theories this semester. Roxy was a great asset to the class and outside of it too. She attended each class session and students often looked to her for guidance on assignments during the semester. Many times I would walk by her office hours to find her explaining a high-level concept to students. Roxy also responded to student emails in a timely manner, graded reflection and term papers, managed the Starfish system, and taught two class sessions. The course had 120 students enrolled and grading that many reflection and term papers was time consuming and challenging. She also input all the grades for exams and helped to come up with a reasonable curve based on a statistical analysis of the test results. Roxy was well prepared each time she taught. Roxy reflected upon what she did well and what she could improve after her first time teaching and worked on her weaknesses. She showed a huge improvement her second time teaching. Compared to her first lesson, she did a better job encouraging participation, which can be challenging in a large lecture hall. She engaged them with pop culture examples that pertained to the topic area being covered. I can safely say, the students got more out of the class and better understood the material due to Roxy assisting with the course this semester. Sincerely, Michael Catalano Teaching Instructor School of Communication East Carolina University 117 Joyner East Greenville, North Carolina 27834 catalanom15@ecu.edu