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UWP
Instructor's Guide
UWP Mentoring Program
As part of your first teaching assignment in the UWP, you may be
participating in a peer mentoring program that pairs incoming graduate
students with an experienced instructor. You will be a part of a team
of three to four instructors led by your mentor who will team teach an
ENC 1101 class in the fall and an ENC 1102 class in the spring.
Together, you will have the opportunity to develop the craft of
teaching by collaborating with and observing your co-teachers, giving
and receiving feedback, discussing pedagogy, and reflecting on a shared
teaching experience.
The aim of the mentoring program is to create an environment that
values teaching and learning excellence in order to encourage the
development of new instructors. To help new instructors make a
successful transition to teaching, the mentoring program endeavors to
provide guidance and training in addition to real teaching experience
in the form of team-teaching. Team-teaching gives instructors the
opportunity to collaborate in and out of the classroom, allowing them
to pool their education, experiences, ideas, and resources and thus
provide students with an enriched learning environment. Even
those with previous teaching experience can benefit: participation in
the mentoring program is an opportunity for all involved to reflect on
pedagogy, clarify teaching goals, and develop effective teaching
strategies.
Your teaching responsibilities in the UWP mentoring program include
co-teaching and observing a section of ENC 1101 in the fall and ENC
1102 in the spring. As a co-teacher, your workload will be equivalent
to half a regular section. Though the amount of time spent
devoted to teaching duties will vary per week, you will be expected to
spend an average of five hours per week on ENC 1101 teaching
duties. In addition to co-teaching, you will also attend the UWP
teaching practicum, three workshops in the fall and three in the spring
that address fundamental teaching issues such as assignment design,
grading, and choosing textbooks.
