Teaching a studio twice a week = 4.5 hours a week X 16 weeks=72 hours Assisting faculty research 6 hours a week X 16 weeks=96 hours Teaching and Graduate assistants may be assigned as course support for any department course. The director generally assigns an assistant for DCE 205, 305 and 505. Faculty teaching other courses may request an assignment in consultation with the director at the point of course schedule development (January/February for fall terms and August/September for spring terms). Once a schedule is finalized the student and faculty consult to go over assigned hours. The student keeps track of their hours and informs the faculty member and director if when they have completed their assigned hours. All faculty members may also request Research Assistants (RA). Faculty in service roles, i.e. Director of Dance Education, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS), and the Technical Coordinator will also be assigned GA/TA hours. Teaching Assistant Observation and Mentoring The goal is for the TA observation and mentoring sessions to be affirmational (i.e. good job!), formative (work on x, y and z) and summative (submitting self-assessment at the end of each term). School of Dance Teaching Assistant Evaluations Protocol New teaching assistants will be observed during the first three weeks of the semester by their a supervising faculty member. Per accreditation guidelines, all teaching assistants will be observed once per semester. Continuing teaching assistants teaching a new course will follow the same rules for new teaching assistants, detailed above. Continuing teaching assistants teaching a course they have taught before have the option of 1) being observed once per semester by their mentoring faculty member or 2) scheduling a conversation about their teaching with their mentoring faculty. It is the TA’s responsibility to schedule observations. Teaching Assistants will forward a syllabus to their mentor prior to the scheduled observation. They should request that their supervising faculty sends the Teaching Assistant Mentorship Supervisor, Dr. Ana Paula Höfling, either 1) a completed School of Dance TA evaluation form or 2) a one-to-two paragraph narrative of the teaching observation. For senior teaching assistants choosing a conversation with their supervising faculty, an email from the faculty member to the TA mentorship supervisor is forwarded to the Director of Dance and entered into the student’s file in the Main Dance Office. The deadline for submission of all evaluations is the last day of instruction of the semester. Instructors are expected to
Teaching a studio twice a week = 4.5 hours a week X 16 weeks=72 hours Assisting faculty research 6 hours a week X 16 weeks=96 hours Teaching and Graduate assistants may be assigned as course support for any department course. The director generally assigns an assistant for DCE 205, 305 and 505. Faculty teaching other courses may request an assignment in consultation with the director at the point of course schedule development (January/February for fall terms and August/September for spring terms). Once a schedule is finalized the student and faculty consult to go over assigned hours. The student keeps track of their hours and informs the faculty member and director if when they have completed their assigned hours. All faculty members may also request Research Assistants (RA). Faculty in service roles, i.e. Director of Dance Education, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS), and the Technical Coordinator will also be assigned GA/TA hours. Teaching Assistant Observation and Mentoring The goal is for the TA observation and mentoring sessions to be affirmational (i.e. good job!), formative (work on x, y and z) and summative (submitting self-assessment at the end of each term). School of Dance Teaching Assistant Evaluations Protocol New teaching assistants will be observed during the first three weeks of the semester by their a supervising faculty member. Per accreditation guidelines, all teaching assistants will be observed once per semester. Continuing teaching assistants teaching a new course will follow the same rules for new teaching assistants, detailed above. Continuing teaching assistants teaching a course they have taught before have the option of 1) being observed once per semester by their mentoring faculty member or 2) scheduling a conversation about their teaching with their mentoring faculty. It is the TA’s responsibility to schedule observations. Teaching Assistants will forward a syllabus to their mentor prior to the scheduled observation. They should request that their supervising faculty sends the Teaching Assistant Mentorship Supervisor, Dr. Ana Paula Höfling, either 1) a completed School of Dance TA evaluation form or 2) a one-to-two paragraph narrative of the teaching observation. For senior teaching assistants choosing a conversation with their supervising faculty, an email from the faculty member to the TA mentorship supervisor is forwarded to the Director of Dance and entered into the student’s file in the Main Dance Office. The deadline for submission of all evaluations is the last day of instruction of the semester. Instructors are expected to
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