PHY 390A Supervised Teaching with Leadership Focus

Semester: Fall and Spring
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite: PHY 386 and PHY 387

This course is designed for an experienced undergraduate planning to be a Workshop Leader, Laboratory or Recitation Teaching Intern (TI), and who is planning to use this experience to fulfill part of the requirements for the Citation for achievement in College Leadership. The TI is expected to attend the weekly Leader Training meetings supporting PHY 386-387. In recognition of their experience, the TI will take on some mentoring and course organizational tasks. Students spend the semester teaching one workshop, laboratory or recitation section during the Fall/Spring semester introductory physics courses: PHY 113, PHY 114, PHY 121, PHY 122, PHY123, PHY 141, PHY 142, and PHY143. Additional requirements are: Attendance of weekly content meetings with supervising professor and giving feedback to other leaders in a constructive evaluation process. An additional project is required which may or may not coincide with the mentoring and course organizational tasks mentioned above. This course may be taken more than once.

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

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syllabus

The TI will attend meetings of PHY 386/387 and participate, adding experienced perspective. Student will lead or participate in leading some meetings of PHY 386/387.

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