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Nu-Website-Bor-Policies-2.1.6, Nu Board Of Regents May 2016

Nu-Website-Bor-Policies-2.1.6, Nu Board Of Regents

Mission/Vision/Leadership

RP-2.1.6 Relationship of Teaching, Research, and Service


Research In Brief - Can They Teach Each Other? : The Restructuring Of Higher Education And The Rise Of Undergraduate Student “Teachers” In Ontario, Jennifer Massey, Sean Field Jan 2016

Research In Brief - Can They Teach Each Other? : The Restructuring Of Higher Education And The Rise Of Undergraduate Student “Teachers” In Ontario, Jennifer Massey, Sean Field

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

Changes to public funding regimes, coupled with transformations in how universities are managed and measured have altered the methods for educating undergraduate students. The growing reliance on teaching fellows, teaching assistants, and increasingly undergraduate peer educators (administering Supplemental Instruction [SI] programs) is promoted as a means toachieve a greater “return on investment” in the delivery of postsecondary education. Neoliberal discourses legitimating this downloading of teaching labour suggest it offers a “win-win” solution to the “problem” of educating growing numbers of undergraduate students. It proposes universities can deliver the same curricula, and achieve the same “outcomes” (primarily measured through grades and …


Uno Website Coe Clinical Practice, Uno College Of Education Jan 2016

Uno Website Coe Clinical Practice, Uno College Of Education

Student Support

The capstone experience for teacher candidates in the College of Education is clinical practice (student teaching). Clinical practice is a candidate's opportunity to apply their learning and demonstrate their readiness for the classroom.