UWP Lecturers Opportunity for High School Outreach Visitations

[Ninetta Papadomichelaki]

Dear Colleagues:

The High School Outreach Program of the Inland Area
Writing Project is currently seeking instructors to
join its team of consultants to help high schools
prepare their students for the Analytical Writing
Placement Exam (the exam formerly known as the
Subject A) required of all UC applicants.

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.

Consultants will grade no more than 35 papers for a
single class, to which they will give a presentation
for a single class period (about an hour).
Consultants will be paid $215 per visit, which is
meant to cover time spent grading, time for
traveling, gas money, and the actual visitation
time.  Prior to grading these exams, consultants
will need to attend a two-hour orientation and
norming session during the month of February. The
actual presentations to high schools take place from
the end of March to the beginning of June.

Priority will be given to consultants who have
served in the program in previous years, but all
interested parties are encouraged to apply. The
ideal consultant is one who has experience with the
E.T.S. grading of the official Analytical Writing
Placement Exam and has teaching experience in UCR's
Basic Writing Program. Still, we encourage you to
let us of know of your interest to participate, and
we will consider applicants on a case by case basis.

 Please send an email professing your interest to be
a consultant to Ninetta Papadomichelaki at:
roumpini at ucr.edu. Please list “High School
Outreach Consultant” as the subject of your email.

 

 I look forward to working with you,

Ninetta

Ninetta Papadomichelaki, J.D., M.A., M.Ed.
Assistant Director, Inland Area Writing Project
Lecturer, University Writing Program
University of California, Riverside
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