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TEACHING PROJECT
If you select the Teaching Project, you will acquire valuable experience
at the collegiate level which will provide insight into the teaching profession.
This experience will be helpful to you as you consider a career in the
field of education. The teaching project involves working with a particular
university faculty member on a specific course or teaching your own section
of a college-level course. It could include the preparation and delivery
of lectures/presentations or a series of conferences with the professor
during which time you learn how materials and ideas for the course are
acquired and presented. You could serve as a course facilitator, working
with student teams that are conducting projects, experiments, exercises,
or discussions, or preparing written or oral reports. You may be asked
to organize study groups or read books and articles on new pedagogical
approaches in this particular discipline. Perhaps you will think creatively
about how to incorporate this new information into the existing course.
In some cases, you may be completely responsible for teaching a class.
All proposals for the teaching project must include a bibliography that will include sources you will use to prepare lectures and references on teaching approaches you will incorporate into your experience.
To initiate the teaching project, we recommend that you confer with
your prospective faculty mentor at least one semester in advance. During
this semester, you and your supervisor will complete the majority of the
planning and preparation for the class. The supervising professor will
help you prepare a proposal which clearly delineates your responsibilities
concerning his or her class in terms of teaching, tutorials, research,
etc. This is the proposal you will submit to the Honors Thesis Review
Committee for approval.
Your final paper will include several components. In addition to a summary of your teaching experience in the class, there must be a discussion of theoretical and pedagogical issues related to your project. You should identify these issues in conjunction with your mentor as you develop your bibliography for your proposal. A journal recording your experience should also appear in the appendix of your paper in a typed format. One copy will be submitted to your supervising professor and two copies will be submitted to the Honors College by Monday of the week prior to your oral presentation.