Think of these pages as an "on-line consultation."  Here you will find ideas, suggestions, and other musings about teaching physics, and all have been sorted according to the categories on the department's evaluation forms.  If there is a particular area that interests you you can go directly to that question, otherwise, feel free to browse all of the pages. 

Before jumping into the advice, I'd like to mention a couple things.  First, these pages are not meant to be static; I'm interested in collecting ideas and thoughts from all of the TAs.  With any luck, these pages will rapidly grow in size and become a permanent resource for future TAs.  I urge you to email me with your ideas as each one of us has had different experiences in the classroom and therefore can share different techniques.  The more ideas that are posted to these pages, the more choices we will have when considering improvements for our classroom.  For now I have done my best to post as many ideas as possible.  They come from my experiences as a TA, stories that other physics TAs have told me, suggestions given to me by faculty & staff in the department (especially John Rosendahl) and ideas from the IRC. 
 

If you're surfing through here with your numerical summary in hand, I'd suggest you first head to the stockroom.  There you can look through the actual evaluations and read the student comments.  These comments can really help when it comes time to interpreting the numerical portion.  Try to reflect on each comment and look for patterns.  (The IRC has a nice page on reading and using evaluations.)  Also, I can't say it too many times, if you have a concern or question, talk to me or John Rosendahl.

Teaching is a (large) set of skills that can be difficult for new and seasoned instructors alike.  Don't feel to frustrated by teaching as it is one of the most complicated many body problems any of us will ever face!