PHY 386 Teaching Internship I, Pedagogy Training

Semester: Fall
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor

This course is designed for an undergraduate to be a Workshop Leader Teaching Intern (TI) and can be taken by a Laboratory or Recitation Teaching Intern (TI), who plans to use this experience to fulfill part of the requirements for the Citation for achievement in College Leadership. Typically, the TI attends the weekly Workshop Leader Training meeting that offers specialized support and training in group dynamics, learning theory, and science pedagogy for students facilitating collaborative learning groups for science and social science courses. The TI teaches one workshop, laboratory, or recitation in the fall semester introductory physics courses: PHY 113, PHY 122, PHY 141 or PHY 142. Additional requirements are: Attendance of the weekly content meetings with supervising professor, giving feedback to other leaders in a constructive evaluation process and a project designed in concert with the supervising professor and the PHY 386 instructor. (Course is similar to CAS 352).

Note: Students are required in April or August, to attend a two-day rigorous training program. Students prepare and present short model recitation and are video taped for self-evaluation. More information can be found at: http://spider.pas.rochester.edu/mainFrame/education/special/specialTraining.html.

Students must formally submit an application form available at http://spider.pas.rochester.edu/mainFrame/education/special/

For the current, or most recent, home page for this course, go here.

syllabus

Readings from: A Handbook for Team Leaders, Roth, Goldstein, and Marcus, Prentice Hall, 2001 and other handouts
Meeting 1: Organization, plan for first meeting, ice-breakers
Meeting 2: Metacognition
Meeting 3: Review of first meeting of workshops/labs/recitations, emergency numbers and contacts
Meeting 4: Debriefing about last workshop/lab/recitation, Grading workshop
Meeting 5: Debriefing, Learning styles
Meeting 6: Debriefing, Guest speaker
Meeting 7: Debriefing, Review/discussion of mid-term evaluations
Meeting 8: Debriefing, Race, class, gender in the workshop/lab/classroom
Meeting 9: Debriefing, Diversity Day participation
Meeting 10: Debriefing, Team roles
Meeting 11: Debriefing, Guest speaker
Meeting 12: Debriefing, Concept maps
Meeting 13: Debriefing, Project presentations

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