[Englecturers] Fwd: Effort to recruit consultants for High School Outreach

[John Briggs]

TO:  TAs and Lecturers,

       Please consider joining the Inland Area Writing Project's 
High-School Outreach Program, which reaches thousands of 
college-bound high-school juniors each year.  By evaluating and 
presenting the results of students' sample placement exams, you can 
help UCR's feeder schools (teachers, students, and administrators) 
understand our expectations for freshman writers.   The visitation 
program is one of our most important activities because it raises 
expectations for writing in the schools, and reaches students when 
they have a year to prepare for the UC and CSU placement 
tests.  Consultants attend an orientation and receive $200 for each 
classroom visit.  (Multiple visits can be bundled into one day.)
Now in its fifteenth year, the HSOP has worked with almost 50,000 
local students.

      Thanks for your consideration of this opportunity.  Contact 
numbers are below.

John Briggs




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>From: dpapasucr at hotmail.com
>To: ucrcompteachers at lists.ucr.edu
>Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 03:08:08 +0000
>Subject: [Ucrcompteachers] Job Opportunity for TAs and Lecturers: 
>High School Outreach Program
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>Dear Colleagues:
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>The High School Outreach Program is currently seeking instructors to 
>join its team of consultants to help local high schools prepare 
>their students for the Analytical Writing Placement Exam (the exam 
>formerly known as the Subject A) required of all UC applicants.
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>For those unfamiliar with the program, here is how it works. 
>Practice exams will be sent to high schools to administer to their 
>students, and these exams will be graded analytically by qualified 
>instructors from the UCR English Department. In addition to the 
>analytical grading of these exams, instructors serve as consultants, 
>visiting particular high school classrooms and giving presentations 
>on how students can better prepare themselves as readers and writers 
>who will be required to demonstrate the academic skills needed for 
>the official Analytical Writing Placement Exam.
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>Consultants will grade no more than 35 papers for a single class, 
>for which they will give a presentation for a single class period (one hour).
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>Consultants will be paid $200 per visit, which is meant to cover 
>time spent grading, time for traveling, gas money, and the actual 
>visitation time. So, the simple math of this is that if you were to 
>choose to do five visits, you would be richer by $1000.
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>Priority will be given to consultants who have served in the program 
>in previous years. The ideal applicant is one who has experience 
>with the E.T.S. grading of the official Analytical Writing Placement 
>Exam through E.T.S or Pearson Testing Services at Berkeley.
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>We do though encourage applications from TAs and lecturers, who may 
>not have been at Berkeley but do have years of experience in our 
>Basic Writing Program.
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>Prior to high school visitations, consultants will need to attend an 
>orientation and norming session.
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>Please send an email professing your interest to be a consultant to 
>Dean Papas at: <mailto:dpapasucr at hotmail.com>dpapasucr at hotmail.com. 
>Please list "High School Outreach" as the subject of your email.
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>I look forward to working with you,
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>Dean Papas
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>Assistant Director of High School Outreach
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