{"id":5728,"date":"2019-09-25T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2019-09-25T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:48:08","slug":"ubc-lets-talk-science-smart-program-pod-leader-recruitment-2019-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5728","title":{"rendered":"UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science SMaRT Program pod leader recruitment 2019-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We at UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science are recruiting pod leaders for the SMaRT Program 2019-2020 term 2.<\/p>\n<p>I am Vaishnavi Sridhar, the new coordinator for the SMaRT program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is SMaRT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UBC-Community Learning Initiative and Let\u2019s Talk Science have teamed up to bring UBC graduate and undergraduate students into elementary school classrooms to deliver hands-on science activities designed for grade 5 \u2013 7 directly relating to their curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enrich the scientific knowledge of elementary school students and begin an understanding of scientific method.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Program Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UBC students deliver four* 1-1.5 hour science lessons to Grade 5-7 classes (4\/5 split classes may participate) between January and April 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* PharmCSL student pods will deliver five 1-1.5 hour lessons (more information during the orientation session)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your role as a pod leader (Grad student)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a pod leader you will lead a group of 4-5 undergrads and visit East Van classrooms to deliver science activities related to the curriculum of elementary school kids (grades 4-7)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You gain mentorship,leadership and volunteer experience<\/li>\n<li>Better your teaching skills<\/li>\n<li>Get reference letters<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kindly apply via this google form by October 15th and encourage your friends to apply as pod leaders too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/CwfnUReFDqAQuTT8A\">Pod leader google form<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to working with you all.<\/p>\n<p>Kindly contact me on this email if you have more questions.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards<br \/>\nVaishnavi Sridhar<br \/>\nSMaRT Program Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science are recruiting pod leaders for the SMaRT Program 2019-2020 term 2. I am Vaishnavi Sridhar, the new coordinator for the SMaRT program. What is SMaRT? The UBC-Community Learning Initiative and Let\u2019s Talk Science have teamed up to bring UBC graduate and undergraduate students into elementary school classrooms to deliver&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5729,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions\/5729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}