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This posting is for one unionized contractual appointment. A Teaching Assistant is a Graduate Student employed to assist the Course Supervisor as a Teaching Assistant in a classroom environment. Teaching Assistant Positions are governed by the Collective Agreement between McGill University and the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM)
Hiring Unit:
Department of Integrated Studies in Education
Course Title and Course Number:
EDEM 688 Critical Participtory Research Methods
Estimated Number of Positions: 1
Total Hours of Work per Term: 45 hours (estimated)
Position Summary:
The Teaching Assistant will assist with the preparation of the course material, leading discussions, supervising individual projects, office hours, answering inquiries, providing feedback on the presentations. The TA will also support in class sessions and assess students' work related to course objectives.
Qualifications:
1. Graduate student (PhD student preferred) with a strong understanding of at least one of the following methodologies:
• Institutional Ethnography
• Critical Participatory Action Research (PAR) (whether Community Based PAR, Youth PAR)
• Critical Archival Research
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Critical Fabulation
• Indigenous Research Methodologies (particularly Indigenous Metissage and/or Land-based methodologies)
• Critical Race Counterstory
• Abolitionist methodologies
(strong understanding would be demonstrated by the fact that the student uses the methodological approach in their own graduate work, and/or that their work contains a critique of the approach, and/or that they have explored the area in a lit review or as part of course work, candidacy papers etc)
Preference will be given to applicants who have taken at least one of the following courses in DISE:
• Critical Race Studies and Education
• Decolonizing and Indigenous Research Methodologies
2. Availability during the official time of the course Fall Term Mondays 5:30 - 8:30,
3. DISE students will be given priority.
Other:
In your application for a Teaching Assistant position, please complete the attached Teaching Assistant application form and upload it in the “resume” section of your Workday application.
https://www.mcgill.ca/hr/files/hr/1_-_graduate_student_application_for_ta_-_english_-_jan_2021_-_fillable.pdf “
Please note that given the resumption of most in-person teaching activities, Teaching Assistants will be required on campus to perform their tasks in person. Should government restrictions prohibit the resumption of in-person teaching activities, courses will revert to remote teaching. In the event of such a change, Teaching Assistants will be advised as soon as possible. Teaching Assistants may be required to perform tasks suited to a remote/online teaching environment using a virtual learning platform [e.g., Zoom, WebEx] and the McGill myCourses learning management system.
Hourly Salary:
Position Start Date:
2023-08-30
Position End Date:
2023-12-05
Deadline to Apply:
2023-06-21
McGill University hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community. We welcome applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated groups to self-identify. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [email protected] .
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