What is my role at the PPT meeting?
You will need to discuss your role with the PPT before the meeting but eventually you will be expected to take the leading role in running the meeting. This will involve giving students feedback on their previous work and presenting the current exercise. When you give feedback you should consider both the need to correct student error and to motivate the students to work hard. Hence all criticism needs to be tempered with encouragement. There are a number of possible ways of presenting the current exercise. You may wish to talk through the lab spec describing the various parts of the problem or you may wish to talk about the design of the program in a more general way. You also may wish to have a more general discussion about the principles of programming. The actual design of the meeting is between you and your PPT but the purpose is to get the PPT students to participate in discussion and reflect on how they are going to design and write their programs. You will see your students dev
