{"id":9852,"date":"2023-09-05T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:53:31","slug":"lfs-250-taships-2023-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9852","title":{"rendered":"LFS 250 TAships 2023-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have 3 on-line TAships available in our second-year course,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfs250.landfood.ubc.ca\">Land, Food and Community I (LFS 250)<\/a>.\u00a0The course is an introduction to food systems literacy with an emphasis on developing systems thinking approaches, interdisciplinary collaboration skills, and equity competencies. We explore issues related to sustainability, food security, food sovereignty, and food environment analysis. Students develop skillsets related to systems diagrams, team work, and verbal, written and design-based communication. TAs are responsible for running their own tutorial sessions with support from the three course instructors (Delisa Lewis, Matt Mitchell and Will Valley), including tutorial templates, weekly teaching team meetings, and a course-specific TA handbook.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any graduate students that are looking for more independent, on-line teaching experience and keen to guide 2nd-year students through food systems issues, please send them our way and\/or direct them to our TA Portal to apply &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ta-app.landfood.ubc.ca\">https:\/\/ta-app.landfood.ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0(must be either on campus (UBC Secure) or logged in through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/it.ubc.ca\/services\/email-voice-internet\/myvpn\">UBC VPN<\/a>\u00a0for the website to work).<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more details about the course:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course code &#8211; LFS 250 002<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Delivery &#8211; On-line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2023 to April 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>210 hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; On-line Lecture &#8211; Tuesdays, 1pm-1:50pm<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lab time &#8211; Tuesdays, 2pm-3:30pm (this is scheduled for students to complete group work, but does not have a weekly scheduled component for TAs. TAs hold office hours or use the time to catch up on grading and\/or prep for their tutorial)<br \/>\n&#8211; Tutorials &#8211; <strong>Thursdays,12:30-1:50pm<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Weekly Teaching Team Meeting &#8211; no time has been set, we meet weekly as a teaching team for one hour, preferably on Mondays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Facilitating weekly tutorial sessions, attending on-line lectures and weekly teaching team meetings, grading assignments and providing students with verbal and written feedback, and maintaining communication with students outside of course time as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Warmly,<\/p>\n<p>Will Valley, PhD<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Teaching, Applied\u00a0Biology<br \/>\nAcademic Director, Land, Food, &amp;\u00a0Community Series<br \/>\nAssociate Dean, EDI<br \/>\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems<br \/>\nUniversity of British Columbia,\u00a0Musqueam Territory<br \/>\n210 &#8211; 2205 East Mall<br \/>\nVancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have 3 on-line TAships available in our second-year course,\u00a0Land, Food and Community I (LFS 250).\u00a0The course is an introduction to food systems literacy with an emphasis on developing systems thinking approaches, interdisciplinary collaboration skills, and equity competencies. We explore issues related to sustainability, food security, food sovereignty, and food environment analysis. 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