As a Junior Tutor Academy Teacher at Erasmus School of Economics, you will make an active contribution to the small-scale teaching, by guiding and supervising teaching assistants across all four departments of ESE (0,6 FTE). This position can optionally be extended to a full-time position through participation in our Learning and Innovation (LI) team (0,4 FTE); the focus of the LI team is improvement and innovation of our education. The contract length is for one year with a possibility to extend.
The Junior Tutor Academy Teacher position (0.6 fte)ESE offers small-scale teaching for bachelor 1 and bachelor 2 courses in the form of tutorials. Tutorials are practice sessions, where the students can practice with certain aspects of a particular course, in groups of at most thirty students, under the supervision of a teaching assistant (TA). Senior students (bachelor 2 and higher) who have successfully completed the respective course(s) themselves, can apply to become a TA. To ensure good-quality small-scale bachelor education, the Tutor Academy arranges recruitment and hiring of TAs for all four departments within Erasmus School of Economics. Our Tutor Academy Teachers also provide training, coaching and supervision for the TAs. Since the bachelor 1 and bachelor 2 courses at ESE have a large student population, there are many tutorial groups, hence also many tutors are active simultaneously. Your main duty will be to help with the guidance of the TAs.
Your main duties in outline:
- Visiting tutorials and giving feedback on the teaching of the TAs.
- Coaching the TAs where needed.
- Ensuring additional support to the Tutor Academy teachers where needed.
As a junior Tutor Academy teacher, you will be involved in the guidance of TAs across all four departments of ESE: the Department of Economics, the Department of Business Economics, the Department of Applied Economics, and the Department of Econometrics.
The academic year in split into five blocks of eight weeks each, at ESE. In each block we have some large courses, employing a large number of TAs. The sooner the TAs can get feedback on their teaching, the sooner they can adjust their teaching, hence the higher the quality of the teaching will get. You will work closely together with the Tutor Academy teachers who are responsible for the tutorials of these large courses throughout the different blocks. You will visit the tutorials and will give constructive feedback to the TAs, and where needed you will also return to see whether and how the required changes are implemented. You can help with further coaching of the TAs and with the various tasks at the Tutor Academy.
In your role as a Junior Teacher of the Tutor Academy, you will get to know and work together, not only with the Tutor Academy teachers, but also together with the academic staff of all four ESE departments, who are coordinating the respective courses.
The Junior Learning Innovation consultant position (optional 0.4 fte)As a Learning Innovation consultant, you support the lecturers in their stride to improve their courses, by helping them find and/or apply innovative education tools, or innovative didactical methods. It is also important to help them tailor the tools to the need of their audience, to familiarize them with tools or systems, or make them accessible providing a simple manual or adequate explanation. The tools and systems in use also need maintenance, licenses need to be renewed or acquired for new users, or you need to mediate between lecturers and technical departments. You act as advisor, support, and contact person for the lecturers.
Your main duties in outline:
- Advising and supporting the individual lecturers and/or course coordinators on the realization of innovation in their courses.
- Participate in innovation projects in education.
- Enable and ensure up-to-date instruction material, manuals for tools in education, and didactical methods.
- Maintenance of contracts, systems, tools, and contacts.