Help students explore the art of teaching, especially using service-learning pedagogy. Support students and faculty as partners in connecting service-learning theory and practice. Students need not be education majors to participate in this program.
Selected students work with a faculty mentor and provide services while they learn about teaching.
The seminar, which meets once each week, focuses on teaching and service-learning theory and is preceded by a special workshop held to orient the UTAs to their new role at the beginning of the semester. The main difference between serving as a traditional UTA and serving as a UTA in service-learning is that the latter works with a faculty member who integrates community service into the course being taught . The UTA in service-learning will help faculty communicate with agencies about course objectives and students' service performance, identify community service sites, and lead reflection sessions which connect course concepts and service experience. To be selected as a UTA in service-learning is both an honor and an opportunity for significant growth. Have sophomore standing by the beginning of the fall 2000 semester.