Call for Applications for Teaching Apprentices
FALL 2018/WINTER 2019/SPRING 2019
Course: GE CLUSTER COURSE - FOOD: A LENS FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Position: 50% time, includes fees
The
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) is seeking
qualified graduate students to serve as Teaching Apprentices (Teaching
Assistants or Teaching Fellows as determined
by level of experience) for the General Education freshman cluster
course Environment M1, "Food: A Lens for Environment and
Sustainability," for the Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters of the
2018-2019 academic year. A summary description of the course is
attached.
This course cluster will be team-taught by four
faculty members. During the Fall and Winter quarters, Teaching
Apprentices will attend lectures and assist faculty in preparation of
the lecture portion of the course, as well as lead two-hour
discussion sections. During the Spring quarter, the Teaching
Apprentices will be responsible for teaching a seminar on a topic of
their choice related to the course material. These seminars will have an
enrollment of about 20 students and will meet for 3 hours/week.
Responsibilities
• Attend lectures (3 hrs./week) and assist the faculty in the lecture portion of the course
• Be responsible for conducting two discussion
sections per week (2 hrs. per section) with groups of approx. 20
students per section
• Review weekly readings and assignments - hold weekly office hours
• Participate in instructional meetings - teach writing and provide detailed feedback on student papers
• Assist in developing course assignments
• Choose course readings or other instructional materials
• Assist in developing course exams, monitoring exam sessions, and grading student exams
• Lead or accompany field trips off campus
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, an applicant must
have 1 1/2 years of previous experience as a teaching assistant and must
be advanced to candidacy in a UCLA PhD program (or be able to
demonstrate the reasonable expectation that s/he will
be advanced to candidacy by the end of the Winter Quarter 2019).
In addition, applicants must express a willingness
and desire to accept this appointment for the entire 2018-2019 Academic
Year. Preference will be given to candidates with educational and
research experience related to the topics covered
by the course. Experience spanning more than one relevant discipline
(e.g. economics and biology or engineering and political science) is a
plus.
To Apply
Consideration of candidates are open now.
Interested students should submit a brief statement of their
qualifications by hard copy or email to:
Raffaella D’Auria, PhD
3348 Math Sciences Building
Campus Mail Code: 155705