BIO 120/141/142 Lab Instructor Positions
Category : Student Opportunities
The Department of Biology is seeking Lab Instructors for the intro level biology labs (courses BIO141, BIO142 and BIO120). These positions are a great way to gain teaching experience and build your CV. Lab instructors teach one 3-hour lab and also attend a 1-hour prep session each week of the semester (approximately 11 lab periods and 14 meetings each semester). As a Lab Instructor, you are in charge of a section of 24 students – from teaching the material to overseeing their experiments to grading their assignments. Lab experiments, materials, protocols, power point slides, assignments, lab outlines, and grading rubrics are provided and each lab section also has an undergraduate Teaching Assistant to help during lab. Instructors gain several things to add to a teaching portfolio – student evaluations, teaching material you have created (quizzes, feedback on lab research posters, etc.), and experience with a variety of pedagogical techniques (group discussions, lecture, think-pair-share, etc.). Labs generally consists of approximately 2-3 multi-week modules each semester that are designed to focus on experimental design concepts and research skills rather than demonstrate concepts taught in lecture. If you would like more information or are interested in being a lab instructor please email the lab director Dr. Megan Cole at mfcole [at] emory [dot] edu.
