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Access and Outreach are looking for tutors and seminar leaders for their YorJourney programme for post-16 students during the summer of 2022. YorJourney is designed to support students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in Higher Education to reach their full potential. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to provide crucial support to students as … Continue reading Paid opportunities with Access and Outreach
The Writing Centre is seeking to recruit two additional GTA writing tutors. Tutors provide 30-minute appointments (face-to-face and online) to students from all disciplines who come to the Centre to discuss their writing. Advice relates to such areas as focus, structure, argument, citation and referencing, writing style, language and grammar. In addition, with more experience, … Continue reading The Writing Centre is looking for tutors
The Department of History is seeking Graduate Teaching Assistants for the following Stage 1 Modules in 2022/23: Introduction to World History, comprising three strands (teaching in Autumn Term and marking in January): Knowledge and Beliefs in World History Political Communities in World History Societies and Economies in World History Evidence and Methods (teaching in Spring … Continue reading Teach in History
Applications remain open for the York Learning and Teaching Award (YLTA) for entry in 2022/23. This is a part-time course to support Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) develop as a university teacher, which also awards Associate Fellow of the HEA (AFHEA) The deadline for applications for 2022/23 entry is Thursday 28 April 2022. York Learning and … Continue reading York Learning and Teaching Award
Introduction to Teaching and Learning training is open for booking for Summer Term. If you’re planning to teach as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) at York, you need to complete this training (once only), delivered by the Academic Practice team. Find out about the training, how to enrol, and what to do if you can’t … Continue reading Introduction to Teaching and Learning: booking now open
Deadline: Monday 14 March 2022 The Centre for Lifelong Learning is planning its 2022/23 programme and would welcome the opportunity to work with members of departments, and in particular current postgraduates, to develop new course ideas and teaching opportunities. Previous teaching experience within higher education is required. The Centre provides an extensive programme of open-access evening … Continue reading Work with the Centre for Lifelong Learning 2022/23
The Maths Skills Centre is recruiting PhD researchers working across all disciplines to teach. You must have: a good first degree in a subject with a large mathematical or statistical content a good grounding in first-year undergraduate Mathematics and/or Probability and Statistical Theory a good level of digital literacy – with knowledge of Statistical software- … Continue reading Teaching opportunities in Maths Skills Centre – Statistics
Booking now: Introduction to Teaching and Learning training Spring and Summer Terms If you’re planning to teach as a GTA at York, you need to complete this training (once only), delivered by Academic Practice. Introduction to Teaching and Learning
Reflections on Learning and Teaching in the Autumn Term 2021-22Tuesday 14 December • online • 2-3.30pm Call for contributions from staff and students on experiences of learning and teaching during the Autumn Term 2021-22: what have your experiences of learning and teaching been like this term? how have experiences gained during the remote teaching phases … Continue reading Reflections on learning and teaching in the Autumn Term 2021-22
We’ve created a new video resource: experienced York Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) sharing practical advice with newer GTAs. Academic Practice will use these videos to complement our existing GTA training resources for the Introduction to Teaching and Learning, and YLTA (The York Learning and Teaching Award). If you’re a GTA, you can look through these to … Continue reading New video resource: York GTAs share teaching advice