Girls Who Code

Teaching Assistant

June - August 2018 • New York City, NY

What I liked

Great connections with host company. Most want to hire the GWC staff

What I wish was different

More contact with companies outside your host company

Advice

Make connections with your host company, get to know the students, learn the material well

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Teaching Assistant (Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School)

June - August 2018 • New York City, NY

What I liked

I loved the fact that I was making an impact and teaching students how to code. Became a source of inspiration for many high school girls which felt rewarding

What I wish was different

Advice

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Teaching Assistant

May - August 2018 • Seattle, WA

What I liked

Girls Who Code inspires women to pursue CS and that is extremely important when the gender gap is so big. Working with them requires you to inspire high school women, but you will also be inspired by your students.

What I wish was different

Advice

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Teachers assistant

July 2019 • New York City, NY

What I liked

The girls were great and It was great to motivate them to pursue computer science

What I wish was different

Girls Who Code as a company is getting increasingly disorganized given that their focus has shifted from quality to quantity and it is reflected on the summer immersion programs

Advice

You have to be able to do more than you are expected

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Computer science teacher

May - August 2019 • New York City, NY

What I liked

I liked teaching and meeting all of the students. Also, my coworkers were really fun. I learned the basics in some new languages too.

What I wish was different

I wish the host site was more classroom and high schooler friendly.

Advice

Really fun. Teach the students how to learn like a computer scientist, less so the actual code.

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Teaching Assistant

May - July 2019 • San Francisco, CA

What I liked

Giving back to a program that gave me so much and being able to make connections with both students who I can mentor and with industry professionals

What I wish was different

More opportunity for overtime as they were very strict about allowing it

Advice

Creating a welcoming and encouraging classroom environment is more important than the lessons and code

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Teaching Assistant

June - August 2022 • New York City, NY

What I liked

Liked how organized the company was and the huge support system of other women. I was always able to ask for help if needed. The relationships teaching high school girls was also great.

What I wish was different

I wish the program were more constant. Since it was remote when I interned there the sessions would be two weeks with one set of girls, one week teacher prep, then two more weeks with a new set of girls and this would repeat. I wish it was structure more like the in person one was where you had the same class the entire summer.

Advice

Interview is about your personality and willingness to try new ways of approaching a problem as a teacher, but still letting your student take charge. It's a teaching job at the end of the day, not a software engineering position even though you are using those skills.

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Lead Teaching Assistant

June - August 2023 • Myrtle Point, OR

What I liked

Meeting so many people with limited knowledge about coding and watching them make their own games in just 2 weeks

What I wish was different

i wish it wasn't remote

Advice

Don't be afraid to give feedback to other TAs and your instructor. It's a little awkward at first but good feedback to the teaching team really helps the overall classroom environment.

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