Instructional assistant for ES110

Application deadline: September 8.

 Applicants are sought for one position of Instructional Assistant (IA) to assist Professor McLeman in carrying out synchronous (i.e. “live” or “real time”) instruction via zoom.wlu.ca for ES110 this semester. The total number of hours will be between 96 and 120 depending on enrollment. Applicants must be students enrolled at WLU for the fall semester at the second year or higher, be in good academic standing, and already have a high level of competence using Zoom software (there will not be time or resources for training). Applicants must be available for work at the following times throughout the fall semester:

 Mondays, Wednesdays, 1330-1420H and Tuesdays, Thursdays 1130-1220H

 The IA’s duties will be to participate in zoom.wlu.ca meetings for approximately 200 students in each of the aforementioned meetings, acting as the Zoom co-host with Professor McLeman and managing breakout rooms, whiteboards activities, and chat-room conversations, and ensuring that each meeting is recorded, transcribed and uploaded to MyLearningSpace afterwards. The IA will also train teaching ES110 Teaching Assistants in the basics of hosting a zoom meeting and, in the week of September 21-25, sit in on the first zoom meeting hosted by each TA to provide additional training if needed.

The first Zoom meeting at which the IA’s participation will be required will take place on Monday, September 14, and the final one on Tuesday, December 8 (there are no meetings during Fall reading week). The approximate breakdown of hours is as follows:

- four hours of zoom lectures/week x 12 weeks + an additional 2 hours/week for managing and uploading lecture/whiteboard/chat files and proofreading & posting transcriptions to MyLS

- conducting a training session for the TAs on how to use Zoom for tutorials = 2 hours, during week of September 14

- participating in the 1st online tutorial held by each TA (if needed; TAs are be expected to self-manage subsequent tutorials on zoom); this will equal 8-10 hours depending on number of lab sections and TAs, which is in turn subject to enrollment

- an average of 0.5 hours of flex time each week for unforeseen problems with technology, extra meetings with instructor or TAs, etc

Interested applicants should send a cv/resume and informal copy of their Loris transcript to Professor Robert McLeman at rmcleman@wlu.ca, indicating in the subject line the position being applied for.