CS198B is a 1-unit, Satisfactory/No Credit class aimed at CS106 Section Leaders who want to hone in on their 106B skills.

The course is workshop-based, with a 50-minute full group meeting and a 60-minute small group meeting each occurring weekly throughout the quarter.

These workshops are designed to help you grow as a section leader and provide you with resources and techniques to teach CS106B for the first time (but 106B veterans are also welcome!).

CS198B is a class for which receive unit credit and SSL qualification. We'll try to be as flexible and understanding as possible because we know you all are incredibly busy with classes on top of SLing and other circumstances that we don't know about. The last thing we want is for 198B to be an extra source of stress in your life.

We put a ton of time and effort into making this class as helpful as possible. In order to receive credit for this course we ask that you:

• Attend small and full groups. With the exception of extenuating circumstances, you may miss a maximum of two meetings. If you know you will miss a meeting, we need advance notice preferably the day before - we expect you to treat and prioritize this like you would a discussion class with required attendance.
• Arrive in full and small groups on time. We cover a ton of material and we want to have as much time for discussions and topic reviews as possible. If you’re running late, just send us a message in the Slack with when you plan to arrive. If this is an expected or regular conflict, please let us know as soon as you can once we decide on final times. Each tardy to full group of >5 minutes will count as half an absence.
• Prepare for your small group practice teach. Generally we expect prep to take about 15 minutes. Because we use section problems - this is also section prep that you have to do anyways!
• Pay attention and participate in small and full groups. This is a discussion based class where we want to respect everyone’s contributions. You may use technology to take notes or look up reference material that will contribute to our discussion.
• Check our Slack channel at least once a day. Especially the day of small and full groups. We’ll send all important announcements through that.

For your final project, we will ask you to prepare something related to CS106B that contributes to the CS198 community.

Projects are a pass/fail assignment that will need to meet specific, though fairly limited, criteria - mainly that it fits into a category identified by the faculty and coordinators as valuable to the development of CS198. The criteria and categories will be released around week 5.

Though there will be categories, the project is largely open-ended – some past examples have been tools/guides to teach particular topics, creating a section problem, or recording a practice teach that can be used as an example.

This course is built on prior work by the CS198 Coordinators and past/current 198B small group leaders. 198B is intended to help you, and there are possibilities that things we discover throughout the course could be used to improve it for future iterations.

This quarter, in particular, CS198B is changing rather considerably. We will ask all SLs taking the course to fill out beginning, midpoint, and end surveys to receive feedback and better understand the role the course plays in the current CS198 program. Any additional feedback is also very welcome!