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My teaching experience is split between three areas: teaching assistant, instructional assistant, and private tutoring, with each detailed below.

Teaching Assistant (TA)

Employer: University of North Texas

Timeline: May 2023 - July 2023; January 2024 - current

The responsibilities of a teaching assistant depends on the class and professor, but generally it involves some mixture of grading assignments, leading recitations (which are supplementary regularly-scheduled class sessions), creating learning material for students to better understand the course topics, proctoring students during exams, and sometimes leading entire class periods when the professor is unavailable. The time requirements are usually around 20 hours per week. I was one of the few Master's students at UNT to receive a teaching assistantship! (Usually, Master's students get instructional assistantships; see below.) Teaching assistants are salaried and get paid more than instructional assistants do, and they're given more responsibility in the classroom.

ID	Title	Timeline	Professor
CSCE 2610	Assembly and Computer Organization	August 2024 - current	Dr. Robin Pottathuparambil
CSCE 3550	Foundations of Cybersecurity	June 2024 - July 2024	Dr. Ervin Frenzel
CSCE 5380	Data Mining	May 2024 - June 2024	Dr. Russel Pears
CSCE 2610	Assembly and Computer Organization	January 2024 - May 2024	Dr. Pradhumna Shrestha
CSCE 3444	Software Engineering	May 2023 - July 2023	Professor Diana Rabah
CSCE 4535	Network Administration	May 2023 - July 2023	Professor Diana Rabah

Instructional Assistant (IA)

Employer: University of North Texas

Timeline: January 2023 - May 2023; August 2023 - December 2023

Instructional assistants have most of the same responsibilities as teaching assistants do (except they are not allowed to lead a recitation section). That means I graded assignments, created learning material, proctored students during exams, and held office hours, all in the same way that a teaching assistant would. The main difference between the two roles is that IA's are an hourly position (TA's are salaried) and get paid less than TA's do. IA's are more designed for Master's students, but a select few (including me!) are able to become TA's while still a Master's student.

ID	Title	Timeline	Professor
CSCE 2610	Assembly and Computer Organization	August 2023 - December 2023	Dr. Robin Pottathuparambil
CSCE 3530	Computer Networks	January 2023 - May 2023	Dr. Robin Pottathuparambil

Private Tutor

Employer: iD Tech (virtual)

Timeline: January 2021 - July 2022

This was my first job! I started it after my first semester at UNT. As a private tutor, I led online private lessons with one or two students at a time. I would usually get around 10 lessons a week, with each student being aged between 7 and 17 years old. I would usually help students create a long-term project in programming, spanning several months (with some students more than a year!) in game engines or programming languages including Java, Javascript, Python, Unity, C#, C++, PyGame, and others. Other times, students would want tutoring in topics like algebra, geometry, calculus, data structures, algorithms, and more. This was good preparation for my IA and TA positions where I used a lot of the same teaching strategies for an older audience! In total, I taught more than 600 private lessons during this time.