Due date for applications: No currently open positions
If you are interested in the position and wish to find out more, contact CTE’s Program Coordinator, Monika Soczewinski.
Time commitment: Approximately 30 hours per term
Compensation: $1,020 per term
Appointment: September 2023 – August 2024 (three consecutive terms)
The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) seeks graduate students to join our collaborative graduate/TA programming team as TA Workshop Facilitators. Through this unique professional development opportunity, graduate students enhance their experience as instructors, facilitators, and presenters. Successful candidates will contribute to the design and delivery of the Fundamentals of University Teaching program by facilitating, individually and in collaboration with others, interdisciplinary and discipline-specific teaching workshops for graduate students.
We invite applications from full-time and part-time graduate students. The Centre for Teaching Excellence regards equity and diversity as an integral part of academic excellence and is committed to accessibility for all employees. As such, we encourage applications from women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, racialized people, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
To maintain disciplinary diversity in our staff team, we are particularly interested in applicants from the Faculties of Engineering and Environment.
Work Location
CTE graduate-student staff are expected to be available for on-campus work for the duration of their employment. TA Workshop Facilitators can expect to facilitate both in-person and online workshops.
Main Responsibilities
- Facilitate or co-facilitate four to six CTE workshops/modules per term, including CTE’s Fundamentals workshops/modules and departmental workshops/modules
- Work on special projects with a focus on TA training, which may include updating and enhancing TA workshops and resources
- Attend monthly team meetings, which include professional development
- Receive training and mentorship from the supervising Educational Developer
- Promote TA workshops/modules and other TA development programs available through CTE in their home department and faculty
- Assist with hiring and training of new TA Workshop Facilitators
Required Qualifications
- Registered PhD student at the University of Waterloo until August 2024
- Completion of the CTE Fundamentals of University Teaching certificate or equivalent
- At least 3 terms of university teaching experience
- Enthusiasm for mentoring other TAs and facilitating workshops on teaching
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Knowledge of and respect for disciplinary and cultural differences in teaching and learning
- Enrollment in or completion of the Certificate in University Teaching (preferred)
Application Process
To apply, please submit the following documents by email to Monika Soczewinski, Graduate Program Coordinator, by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, June 25, 2023:
- A one-page cover letter outlining your interest in this position, the skills and experience you would bring to it, and a description of two workshop topics that you would like to develop for other TAs in your role as a TA Workshop Facilitator. Please also state when you plan to graduate from your program.
- A curriculum vitae (CV) listing your teaching, presentation, and/or workshop facilitation experience. Please list your instructional responsibilities in courses that you TA’ed/taught.
- A TA training workshop proposal: a 1-2 page document outlining a 60-min lesson plan for one of the workshop topics you would like to develop for TAs as part of the Fundamentals of University Teaching program. You can design an in-person or online workshop (please state the delivery mode in your lesson plan). For the purposes of the application, we are interested in your overall workshop plan, including participant engagement strategies and time breakdown. You do not need to go into detail about the content/material or cite references from educational research. We encourage creativity in workshop design and welcome various workshop lesson plans. We have included two lesson plan templates that you may, but are not required to, use. Within your workshop plan, please answer the following question in 75-125 words:
