ACADEMIC SUCCESS STRATEGIES: LAI 203
Become an Academic Success Strategies Course Academic Coach for the spring 2022 semester!
What does an academic coach do?
Academic coaching is a personalized they offer one-on-one meeting that can help students improve their skills and performance. Working with an academic coach can help students study smarter by developing skills in time management, goal setting, and test preparation.
Rewards include: Learning new skills, meeting and helping your fellow students, use your success to help others and build up your resume…
Please contact us to see if being an Academic Coach is the right opportunity for you and to discuss ways of earning internship credit.
If you have questions or would like to apply to become an Academic Coach, please contact asktutoring@buffalo.edu
I am looking for students that have an interest in supporting high school students taking Regents Living Environment. We have a grant to fund a program which pairs UB students with Living Environment teachers in Buffalo Public Schools. The UB students will support the teacher and students by working together to develop strategies to increase the efficiency of teaching and students’ understandings.
This is a full academic year commitment. UB students will enroll in a 3 credit course during the fall semester. One hour each week will be spent in class, discussing science literacy strategies and planning lessons to bring into the classes. Students will spend 4 hours per week in the high school classroom. The same students will continue to work with their partner teachers during the spring semester, for 4 hours per week, in a paid position. Interested students should reach out to me, as approval is required to enroll.
Sandra K. Small, Ph.D. | Science Education Manager
University at Buffalo | Business & Entrepreneur Partnerships
University at Buffalo | GEM Community of Excellence
sksmall@buffalo.edu
buffalo.edu/partnerships
buffalo.edu/gem
Applications for spring 2022 Honors Colloquium Teaching Assistants are now open! Deadline Monday, March , 15, 2021 at 12 noon.
A virtual information session will be held on Thursday, February 25th from 3:00-3:45pm to answer your questions!
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN2tQ93KNUpTI1uBbNQV7S4idtAIJjfKxpUlAMrNNlC8isaQ/viewform. Zoom details for the information session will be sent the morning of Thursday February 25th.
What an exciting time to become an Honors Colloquium TA! Spring 2022 Honors Colloquium will again consist of approximately 15-17 sections (with roughly 24 students), each led by an upper-class Honors Colloquium Teaching Assistant. The course will continue to provide an opportunity for students to delve into the city of Buffalo through research, community engagement, and small group projects. All students enrolled will also earn a Community Engagement digital badge for their work in the course. TAs will enroll in a one credit hour training course in the fall semester (first-time TAs will also complete a digital badge for an additional Honors experience credit), and earn three credits for teaching their section in the spring semester. This is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching and leadership skills while completing up to five Honors College experience credits!
Teaching Assistant Minimum Qualifications:
- Successful completion of HON 102: Freshmen Honors Colloquium with an A- or better.
- Good standing in the Honors College.
- Be able to enroll in HON 495 in the fall (one credit – Pass/Fail) and spring (three credits – Pass/Fail).
- Have completed at least 60 academic credit hours by the end of summer 2021 (this includes AP, IB, and transfer work).
- Be available to facilitate one section of HON 102 in the spring 2022 semester.
For more information about becoming an Honors Colloquium Teaching Assistant, and to complete an application, please visit: https://honors.buffalo.edu/curriculum/colloquium/ta-application.php.
Applications for spring 2022 Honors Colloquium Teaching Assistants are now open! Application deadline is Monday, March 15, 2021 at noon.
What an exciting time to become an Honors Colloquium TA! Spring 2022 Honors Colloquium will again consist of approximately 15-17 sections (with roughly 24 students), each led by an upper-class Honors Colloquium Teaching Assistant. The course will continue to provide an opportunity for students to delve into the city of Buffalo through research, community engagement, and small group projects. All students enrolled will also earn a Community Engagement digital badge for their work in the course. TAs will enroll in a one credit hour training course in the fall semester (new TAs will also complete a digital badge for an additional Honors credit), and earn three credits for teaching their section in the spring semester. This is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching and leadership skills while completing five Honors College experience credits!
We will also be holding an information session next week to provide more details and answer questions. Day and time: TBA. An official announcement will be sent later this week.
Teaching Assistant Minimum Qualifications:
- Successful completion of HON 102: Freshmen Honors Colloquium with an A- or better.
- Good standing in the Honors College.
- Be able to enroll in HON 495 in the fall (one credit – Pass/Fail) and spring (three credits – Pass/Fail).
- Have completed at least 60 academic credit hours by the end of summer 2021.
- Be available to facilitate one section of HON 102 in the spring 2022 semester.
For more information about becoming an Honors Colloquium Teaching Assistant, and to complete an application, please visit: https://honors.buffalo.edu/curriculum/colloquium/ta-application.php.
Roswell Park is looking for volunteers to assist with running the Buffalo Health Care Exploration this summer. We are especially looking for males but have unfilled positions for both genders. You must currently be in college and preference will be given to applicants who participated in BHE during high school or have worked with Roswell previously.
BHE is a program for high school students who believe they
may want to go to medical school or pursue a science career. The students get
to do activities such as shadow doctors, think of medical instruments, get
college and premedical mentoring, and networking opportunities within Roswell.
It is during the month of July with extra commitments during June for the Ride
for Roswell. If you apply be sure you can commit to being present for the vast
majority of events and all program dates. The days begin at 9 and end at 4pm.
As a TA you would be acting as a mentor and a guide for a team
of students. You would be responsible for transporting them to different
locations, supervision and mentoring. You’ll act as a positive role model and
peer for the students and help them gain the most out of the program.
As a college student you have the opportunity to network
within Roswell with the many talented physicians involved. You will also gain
exposure to the ATLAS interns who work with the urology department on various
research projects. The networking and connections you make can be integral in
gaining an internship at Roswell, gaining access to medical school, or gaining
access to graduate school. You will be working alongside other motivated
students from nearby colleges.
For information please visit the BHE link which can be found
on Roswell Park’s website. https://www.roswellpark.org/education/atlas-program/buffalo-healthcare-exploration
For additional information about BHE, Roswell, or the ATLAS
internship contact
Lindsay Nitsche, Current Honors Scholar
Email: Ljnitsch@buffalo.edu
ELI is currently
recruiting Chat Room partners for the spring semester. The Chat Room is a
face-to-face conversation program matching an undergraduate student with two
international students for conversation practice. Chat Room partners are welcome to volunteer or register for ESL
320 Conversation Seminar for two pass/fail credits. For more information and
force registration, go to the ELI, 320 Baldy Hall.
Canada/USA Mathcamp is looking for graduate students as leaders for its
summer 2019 session.
- When: June 19 to August 1, 2019
- Where: Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
- Compensation: $4,000 stipend plus room and board for six
weeks, and travel expenses
- Application Deadline: February 15, 2019
- Details and online application: http://www.mathcamp.org/mentor/
This summer, we invite you to:
Be a leader in a vibrant
community of talented and enthusiastic high-school students and energetic
faculty.
Teach and learn what most
interests you, in an atmosphere of freedom and excitement.
Be a friend and mentor to 120
marvelous kids.
Be an architect of an
experience that those 120 kids will cherish for years.
Canada/USA Mathcamp (www.mathcamp.org) is a
summer program for talented high school students from all over the United
States, Canada, and the rest of the world. At Mathcamp, students interact with
world-class mathematicians, explore advanced topics in mathematics, and find a
true intellectual peer group.
The mentor job is a hybrid between
a teaching position and a camp counselor role. Your primary responsibility is
to teach great classes, and you’ll be doing this in the context of a
residential summer program: you live, eat, and play with the campers. It’s a
lot of work and a lot of fun.
As a mentor at Mathcamp, you get
an amazing teaching experience: there is no set curriculum, so you create your
own classes and teach the math you’re interested in. From group theory to
projective geometry, from complex analysis to cryptography, from fractals to
voting theory – there is an abundance of mathematics that can be taught (with a
little imagination) at camp level. You’ll have support (in both curriculum
design and pedagogy) from master teachers, and you’ll work with students who
are exceptionally smart and engaged.
Mentors are also the camp’s
primary leaders and organizers, and cultivate the rich life of the camp by
planning activities, setting camp policy, and serving as residential
counselors—essentially, running the camp, and bringing it to life with creative
ideas, inside and outside the classroom. Initiative, flexibility, and tolerance
for a certain degree of chaos are a must—that is part of what makes Mathcamp an
exciting place to work!
Since women and minority students
often face a shortage of role models in mathematics, we are especially eager to
recruit mentors from these groups.
For more information on the
position and how to apply, visit http://www.mathcamp.org/mentor/.
UB Linguistics Department internship (LIN 496) Would you like to earn UB credit, gain valuable teaching experience, and make a contribution to your community at the same time? The Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo is offering a Teaching Internship for the Spring 2019 semester, which places UB undergraduate students in the Buffalo Public Schools as a teacher’s aide or tutor, to work with children on developing their language and literacy skills. This internship is open to students from any major and grade level who are native or near-native speakers of English and have at least a 2.0 GPA. For three credits, interns work 112 hours over the course of the semester (about 8-10 hours per week), in a classroom or tutoring room in one of the public schools. Interns can be placed in an early childhood school, an elementary school, a middle school, or a high school; the children in the schools include Spanish-English bilinguals, inner-city children, and international students. There are also a very few slots for interns to work with school psychologists, guidance counselors, and social workers. (CDS majors interested in working with an SLP should contact their own department first to inquire about their internship program.) To find out more about the Linguistics Department internship, or to request an application, please stop by Dr. David Fertig’s office, 638 Baldy Hall (Fall 2018 office hours: Monday 1:30-2:30 p.m. and Friday, 10:30–11:30 a.m.) or e-mail him at: fertig@buffalo.edu. (Please include “LIN 496 Internship” in the subject line of your e-mail.)
Are you interested in positively impacting underserved communities in the City of Buffalo? Have you considered a career in education? The UB Teacher Residency Program’s Urban Teaching cohort is launching in the summer of 2019 and we are seeking applicants who are interested in working toward equity in the educational experiences afforded to historically marginalized students in the City of Buffalo.
UB Teacher Residency Program Features:
- Earn initial teacher certification in Early Childhood, Childhood, English for Speakers of Other Languages, or Adolescence Education in one year.
- Receive an $18,000 stipend for living expenses and become eligible for scholarship support in exchange for a 3 year commitment to Buffalo Public Schools.
- Co-teach alongside a mentor teacher in the Buffalo Public Schools for one school year.
- Engage in rigorous and relevant coursework that is integrated with classroom practice.
- Collaborate and build a community with a small cohort of residents, mentor teachers and university faculty who are committed to improving educational experiences in historically underserved communities.
*Previous education coursework is not required. To be eligible, you will need an undergraduate background in your intended content area.
The priority deadline to apply is November 1st. The application requires two short essays, transcripts, and two references. (Applications received after November 1st will be reviewed on a rolling basis, contingent upon district needs and funding.) More information about the program is available at our website http://ed.buffalo.edu/residency.html.
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We’re excited to announce that the application for the inaugural Urban Teaching Cohort of the UB Teacher Residency program has opened! Below are a few of the program features, with more information available at our website (http://ed.buffalo.edu/residency.html). The program will launch in Summer 2019, with residents earning initial certification in Summer 2020. The priority deadline is November 1st, and the application requires two short essays, transcripts, and two references. (Applications received after November 1st will be reviewed on a rolling basis, contingent upon district needs and funding.)
UB Teacher Residency Program Features:
- Earn initial teacher certification in an adolescence education (grades 7–12) content area (biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, mathematics, social studies, English, French, or Spanish) in one year.
- Receive a tuition scholarship (approximately 2/3 of program cost) and an $18,000 stipend for living expenses in exchange for a 3 year commitment to Buffalo Public Schools.
- Co-teach alongside a mentor teacher in the Buffalo Public Schools for one school year.
- Engage in rigorous and relevant coursework that is integrated with classroom practice.
- Collaborate and build a community with a small cohort of residents, mentor teachers and university faculty who are committed to improving educational experiences in historically underserved communities.
Who Should Apply?
- Individuals seeking to become transformational grade 7–12 teachers in the city of Buffalo
- College seniors and recent graduates with a background in the content area they intend to teach
- Professionals interested in making a career change to classroom teaching
*Previous education coursework is not required. To be eligible, you will need an undergraduate background in your intended content area.
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Please feel free to reach out with additional questions or to hear more about the program! Many thanks!
Amanda Winkelsas, Ph.D.
Director, UB Teacher Residency Program
Graduate School of Education
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
512 Baldy Hall
716-645-1066
