Graduate Teaching Assistant, MA Applied Imagination
Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary: £20.51 per hour (Basic Rate) or £46.14 per hour of teaching and associated duties (Enhanced Rate)
Contract: Hourly paid
Hours: Hourly paid
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that teaches students become a problem-finder and change-makers by applying imagination and question existing assumptions in the creative disciplines. MA Applied Imagination is a non-disciplinary, student-centred course directing your development as a confident and responsible creative practitioner capable of achieving change.
MA Applied Imagination is an ambitious, innovative and active course community who recognise the cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary global challenges. Students engage in original, self-directed research journeys, forming their own external networks and experimenting with new forms of knowledge production.
The course is committed to developing ethical applied imagination practices. To achieve this, we are working to embed UAL's Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into the course.
The Graduate Teaching Assistant role will include:
• Playing an important role in helping students see how parts of the courses connect together, including helping build a sense of continuity between lectures, briefs, work-in-progress feedback from tutors and peers.
• This role includes mentoring current students by sharing their experiences of understanding briefs, developing creative processes and demonstrating how their work meets assessment requirements and learning outcomes.
We are looking for a Graduate teaching Assistant to work with MA Applied Imagination. We are looking for MA Applied Imagination graduates, who are looking to develop their teaching and learning skills.
As a GTA you will also undertake sole delivery of small group teaching (e.g. webinars), and to contribute to preparation and joint delivery (with senior academic staff) of lectures as appropriate including:
– Assisting more experienced academic and technical staff in the maintenance of proper conduct in Studios and Workshops.
– Undertaking related academic administration (e.g. attendance registers).
– Undertaking appropriate staff development (e.g. CLTAD teaching course) to support these responsibilities.
– Coordinating and supporting the course team with the planning and development of the end of year Festival (Showcase).
If you wish to apply for this post, please complete the application form, outlining how you meet the requirements of the role. In your supporting statement, please provide a paragraph or two explaining why you are interested in the role and how it relates to your skills, experience and interests (max 1 page) in a word or PDF format.
The closing date is 31 October 2024 at 23:55:00 GMT
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We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.
We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.
We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.