Graduate Teaching Assistant, MA Applied Imagination

University of the Arts, London, City of Westminster

Graduate Teaching Assistant, MA Applied Imagination

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University of the Arts, London, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 4 days ago, 27 Oct | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Full Job Description

The opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that teaches students to become problem-finders and change-makers by applying imagination and questioning existing assumptions in the creative disciplines.
MA Applied Imagination is a non-disciplinary, student-centred course that helps students to become confident and responsible creative practitioners, capable of achieving change. MA Applied Imagination has an ambitious, innovative and active course community who recognise the cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary global challenges. Students engage in original, self-directed research journeys, forming their own external networks and experimenting with new forms of knowledge production.
The course is committed to developing ethical applied imagination practices. To achieve this, we are working to embed UAL's Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into the course.
The Graduate Teaching Assistant role will include:
+ Playing an important role in helping students to see how parts of the courses connect together, including helping to build a sense of continuity between lectures, briefs and work-in-progress feedback from tutors and peers.
+ Mentoring current students by sharing their experiences of understanding briefs, developing creative processes and demonstrating how their work meets assessment requirements and learning outcomes., As a GTA you will also undertake the sole delivery of small group teaching (e.g. webinars), and contribute to the preparation and joint delivery (with senior academic staff) of lectures as appropriate, including:
+ Assisting more experienced academic and technical staff in the maintenance of proper conduct in Studios and Workshops.
+ Undertaking related academic administration (e.g. attendance registers). Undertaking appropriate staff development (e.g. CLTAD teaching course) to support these responsibilities.
+ Coordinating and supporting the course team with the planning and development of the end of year festival (Showcase).
If you wish to apply for this post, please complete the application form, outlining how you meet the requirements of the role. In your supporting statement, please provide a paragraph or two explaining why you are interested in the role and how it relates to your skills, experience and interests (max 1 page) in a word or PDF format.

We are looking for a Graduate Teaching Assistant to work on the MA Applied Imagination course. We are looking for MA Applied Imagination graduates, who are looking to develop their teaching and learning skills.

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