[Ucrcompteachers] Job Opportunity for TAs and Lecturers: High School Outreach Program

[dean papas]

Dear Colleagues:

 

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.

 

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, for which they will give a presentation for a single class period (one
hour). 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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. 

 

Prior to high school visitations, consultants will need to
attend an orientation and norming session. 

 

Please send an email professing your interest to be a
consultant to Dean Papas at: dpapasucr at hotmail.com.
Please list “High School Outreach” as the subject of your email.

 

I look forward to working with you,

 

Dean Papas

Assistant Director of High School Outreach


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