Grader
TLDR
Assist CS50 students by grading problem sets, tutoring weekly, and helping organize CS50 events like Puzzle Day, Hackathon, and Fair.
Like to help students improve their programming skills? Like to hone your own? Apply to be a grader for Fall 2014!
Opportunity involves:
- Grading problem sets for a section of students.
- Holding office hours or tutoring students for 3 hours each week.
- Attending weekly staff training.
- Participating in 2 quiz-grading parties.
- Attending CS50 Training before term's start.
- Hosting (or participating in!) CS50 Puzzle Day.
- Hosting the CS50 Hackathon.
- Hosting the CS50 Fair.
Additional Details:
- Time commitment is ordinarily >= 7 hours per week.
About the Application Process
CS50 reviews grader applications, schedules interviews, and extends offers in three waves:
Wave 0: applications due by Sun 1/25/15, offers out by Fri 2/13/15
Wave 1: applications due by Fri 2/13/15, offers out by Fri 3/13/15
Wave 2: applications due by Mon 9/7/15, offers out by Fri 9/18/15
Because first-round interviews are always a bit nerve-wracking, CS50 instead does them via video so that you've an opportunity to put your best foot forward. Before submitting the below, take some time to prepare a ~5-minute lesson plan on any CS50-related topic with which you're comfortable. And then film yourself teaching it! The format is entirely up to you. You can approach it like a section, like office hours, or like one-on-one tutoring. You can talk to the camera or to a friend pretending to be a student. Or to a class of stuffed animals. Whatever you think would give us a good sense of you as a teacher. You're welcome to use props (e.g., a laptop), but drawing on a piece of paper and holding it up to the camera is fine. Don't worry too much about the quality of the video; having a friend film you with a smartphone is fine! Creativity welcome. When ready, upload it to YouTube and flag it as "unlisted" (not "private").