At the end of the period when you are demonstrating / marking, unestablished staff should complete and sign a payment claim form. The form must be checked and counter-signed by the lab leader or senior technician, before you submit it to the Teaching Office.
It is helpful to have a debrief with the lab leader (or at least to send them an email) offering any comments and feedback you may have on the students’ experience in the lab, with any suggestions for improvement to the lab handout, or the timing / organisation of the lab sessions, or the technical content.
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- On arrival, check that the students have their lab notebooks: they have been told to bring these to every lab. Hand out hard copy of lab instructions for most labs. Lab handouts are available on the web, and students are told to read these in advance of the lab.
- Apply mark penalties for late arrival consistently, as follows:
- Lab sessions begin at 5 minutes past the hour;
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At least one week before the laboratory sessions start (often before the start of the term in which the experiment is first to be run), demonstrators should:
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At the end of the period when the experiment is run, lab leaders should:
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During the term, while the experiment is running, lab leaders should:
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Before the start of the term in which the experiment is first to be run, lab leaders should:
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Information for students
Information on the FTR should be given to students at the time they do the lab (e.g. appended to the laboratory handout). Demonstrators should also be briefed on what is required. FTR handouts must provide enough information on the required report structure so that students know what is expected. Some leaders specify the entire report structure, others expect the students to design the report with a few prompts to incorporate a number of key features, or to address specific questions.
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Lab records and report coversheets
Full details on running labs and other coursework are available here. Students provide their own lab books and paper for recording and/or plotting data during the laboratory sessions, and all original readings should be submitted in their Report. All Module Experiment Reports (essays for Group E modules) that are submitted on paper must have a feedback sheet attached.
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New and/or revised labs
If an experiment is new or has been subject to a major revision, arrange for labs to be tested by student volunteers to check that the length and content is appropriate. These volunteers can be paid, by prior arrangement with the Teaching Office.
Risk assessments
Lab leaders should conduct a risk assessment using the editable template and send the completed form to the Safety Office
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