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Amanda R. Mason ’09, a facilitator for Life Sciences 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution,” says she participated in role-playing scenarios designed to teach mentoring skills at these initial sessions...
...semester proceeds, teaching assistants continue to receive guidance from higher-ranking instructors. “After that,” Mason says, “facilitators continue to have bimonthly meetings with course heads throughout the semester and have discussions such as on how to best teach concepts that may be especially difficult...
...Mason calls her interaction with students as a life sciences facilitator “almost like having a personal tutor provided by the course for free...
...though she is not enamored with rising for 10 a.m. lectures, Mason says that her work as a facilitator gives her a chance to review material that she missed during her first time through the class as a student...
...English common law, essentially says the state can do no wrong because the state creates the law and thus cannot be subject to it. Many states have relaxed sovereign immunity and made it possible for victims of, say, botched operations to sue state hospitals. But Krauss of George Mason University says the Virginia Tech victims' families would probably have to seek an exception to sovereign immunity from the Supreme Court of Virginia in order to sue the school...