Graduate Writing Instructor 1 - Toronto, Canada - University of Toronto
Description
Date Posted:03/21/2024
Req ID: 36614
Faculty/Division:
Centre for Teaching and Learning
Department:
UTSC:
Ctr-Teaching & Learning
Campus:
University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)
Description:
Nature of Assignment:
CTL Graduate Writing Support offers skilled, supportive writing instruction designed to foster student skills and confidence in order to enable all students to reach their full potential.
Our approach to writing instruction is informed by our understanding of writing as a complex ability that is continuously learned and relearned in relation to changing contexts and purposes.
We are committed to creating an inclusive teaching and learning environment, and to principles and practices that foster equity and diversity.
Job Title:
CTL Graduate Writing Instructor
Number of Positions:
One
Size of Appointment (hours): 125 hours
Session:
Summer 2024
Minimum Qualifications:
- A recently completed PhD degree is a requirement for this position.
- Experience planning, organizing and tracking workshops or smallgroup events is required.
- Experience with onetoone writing instruction, and a scholarly approach to onetoone writing instruction, including familiarity with best practices, are required.
- Experience teaching academic writing in courses or workshops is required.
- Experience teaching graduate students is required.
- Experience with writing groups, either as a facilitator or as a participant, is required. An academic background in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, or Social Sciences
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience and training in working with diverse students, including experience and training in secondlanguage instruction at the university level, are assets.
- Experience in teaching writing online, particularly in a synchronous teaching context, is an asset.
- They will also have a demonstrated commitment to fostering equity, diversity and inclusion.
CTL's Graduate Writing Support program favours applicants with a long-term interest in the three main aspects of the position: providing writing instruction for graduate students (especially in STEM or Social Science fields), facilitating group writing events, and developing/implementing workshops on writing-related topics.
Description of duties:
- organize, plan, and facilitate Just Writes, weekly in-person, group writing events that offer a congenial, distraction-free space for writing and the social support of other graduate students. During Just Writes, the instructor will open and close events, facilate informal goal-setting and check-ins, answer questions, and meet with participants one-to-one on an as-needed basis.
- on request from graduate course instructors or departments, develop and present (or co-present) customized workshops on specific aspects of writing and communication for graduate students, including
- develop or compile instructional materials related to graduate student writing
- build relationships with departments, administrators in UTSC graduate departments—DPES, Psychology, Management (MAccFin)
- Liaise with Vice-Dean Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
- Track attendance at Just Write and 1:1; compile a short report at the end of each term or contract describing work done.
The instructor will work independently and in communication with the Coordinator of CTL Writing Support and with campus partners providing graduate programming.
Instructors should have access to a stable, high-speed internet line, a computer with a working webcam and microphone and a quiet workspace.
Appointment Dates:
May 1 to August 30, 2024
Please upload the following Application Requirements:
1. Cover Letter
2. Curriculum Vitae or Resume
4. Sample of instructional materials developed
5. Short Writing Sample (maximum four pages)
6. Names and contact information of three references
TA Support
N/A
Closing Date: 04/12/2024, 11:59PM EDT
Salary:
Writing Instructor I:
$ vacation pay
Writing Instructor I-Long Term:
$ vacation pay
Writing Instructor II:
$ vacation pay
Writing Instructor II-Long Term:
$ vacation pay
Writing Instructor II-Priority:
$ vacation pay
Writing Instructor II-Priority Long Term:
$ vacation pay
The Centre for Teaching and Learning reserves the right to make partial appointments.
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.
It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enro
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