New Teaching Fellowship Program Allows Honors Students to Serve as Teaching Assistants
This fall, the will offer senior honor students and newcomers alike a rare opportunity: to mentor and be mentored by their own.
Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, director of the Honors Program, has announced a new teaching fellowship program in which senior honors students in the process of writing their final theses are assigned to select courses that typically enroll a high number of incoming honors students. As teaching assistants, seniors will help professors flesh out courses and curriculums in addition to coordinating supplementary extracurricular activities and holding review sessions or tutoring individual students, depending on the course鈥檚 requirements.
鈥淭he student acts as a teaching assistant,鈥 Cwilich explained, 鈥渂ut at the same time, he acts as a role model for incoming freshmen and is able to share with them insights into the process of writing a thesis and discuss his particular research.鈥
The student-initiated program has several objectives. By providing faculty with enthusiastic and motivated teaching assistants, the program aims to develop more comprehensive courses whose activities expand beyond the classroom. The program will also forge a critical connection between upper and lower classmen, as new honors students will have the chance to observe seniors in the final stages of the thesis-writing process and share experiences with upper classmen who have recently been in their place.
The program is equally valuable for the senior honors students, many of whom intend to pursue graduate study. 鈥淭o be on the 鈥榦ther side鈥 of the instructor鈥檚 desk is a rare opportunity that I think will not only help my studies this year but hopefully give me a deeper understanding of collegiate education as a whole鈥攁 perfect culmination to my four years here,鈥 said Jonathan Schwab 鈥11 YC, a member of the program鈥檚 inaugural cohort and the Honors Student Council, who proposed the idea to the Honors Steering Committee last year. He will be assigned to Dr. David Lavinsky鈥檚 Conversion and Religious Identities in Medieval Literature class.
For the program鈥檚 first year, teaching fellows have been assigned to eight courses, including Freshman Honors Seminar in Art and Literature in the Age of Photography, Freshman Honors Seminar in Reading Medicine and General Honors Physics.This fall, the will offer senior honor students and newcomers alike a rare opportunity: to mentor and be mentored by their own.
Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, director of the Honors Program, has announced a new teaching fellowship program in which senior honors students in the process of writing their final theses are assigned to select courses that typically enroll a high number of incoming honors students. As teaching assistants, seniors will help professors flesh out courses and curriculums in addition to coordinating supplementary extracurricular activities and holding review sessions or tutoring individual students, depending on the course鈥檚 requirements.
鈥淭he student acts as a teaching assistant,鈥 Cwilich explained, 鈥渂ut at the same time, he acts as a role model for incoming freshmen and is able to share with them insights into the process of writing a thesis and discuss his particular research.鈥
This fall, the will offer senior honor students and newcomers alike a rare opportunity: to mentor and be mentored by their own.
Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, director of the Honors Program, has announced a new teaching fellowship program in which senior honors students in the process of writing their final theses are assigned to select courses that typically enroll a high number of incoming honors students. As teaching assistants, seniors will help professors flesh out courses and curriculums in addition to coordinating supplementary extracurricular activities and holding review sessions or tutoring individual students, depending on the course鈥檚 requirements.
鈥淭he student acts as a teaching assistant,鈥 Cwilich explained, 鈥渂ut at the same time, he acts as a role model for incoming freshmen and is able to share with them insights into the process of writing a thesis and discuss his particular research.鈥
The student-initiated program has several objectives. By providing faculty with enthusiastic and motivated teaching assistants, the program aims to develop more comprehensive courses whose activities expand beyond the classroom. The program will also forge a critical connection between upper and lower classmen, as new honors students will have the chance to observe seniors in the final stages of the thesis-writing process and share experiences with upper classmen who have recently been in their place.
The program is equally valuable for the senior honors students, many of whom intend to pursue graduate study. 鈥淭o be on the 鈥榦ther side鈥 of the instructor鈥檚 desk is a rare opportunity that I think will not only help my studies this year but hopefully give me a deeper understanding of collegiate education as a whole鈥攁 perfect culmination to my four years here,鈥 said Jonathan Schwab 鈥11 YC, a member of the program鈥檚 inaugural cohort and the Honors Student Council, who proposed the idea to the Honors Steering Committee last year. He will be assigned to Dr. David Lavinsky鈥檚 Conversion and Religious Identities in Medieval Literature class.
For the program鈥檚 first year, teaching fellows have been assigned to eight courses, including Freshman Honors Seminar in Art and Literature in the Age of Photography, Freshman Honors Seminar in Reading Medicine and General Honors Physics.The student-initiated program has several objectives. By providing faculty with enthusiastic and motivated teaching assistants, the program aims to develop more comprehensive courses whose activities expand beyond the classroom. The program will also forge a critical connection between upper and lower classmen, as new honors students will have the chance to observe seniors in the final stages of the thesis-writing process and share experiences with upper classmen who have recently been in their place.
The program is equally valuable for the senior honors students, many of whom intend to pursue graduate study. 鈥淭o be on the 鈥榦ther side鈥 of the instructor鈥檚 desk is a rare opportunity that I think will not only help my studies this year but hopefully give me a deeper understanding of collegiate education as a whole鈥攁 perfect culmination to my four years here,鈥 said Jonathan Schwab 鈥11 YC, a member of the program鈥檚 inaugural cohort and the Honors Student Council, who proposed the idea to the Honors Steering Committee last year. He will be assigned to Dr. David Lavinsky鈥檚 Conversion and Religious Identities in Medieval Literature class.
For the program鈥檚 first year, teaching fellows have been assigned to eight courses, including Freshman Honors Seminar in Art and Literature in the Age of Photography, Freshman Honors Seminar in Reading Medicine and General Honors Physics.
