The
Undergraduate Peer Teaching Program in Biology offers students
the opportunity to serve as undergraduate teaching assistants
under the supervision of professors or graduate teaching assistants.
From semester to semester, Peer Teaching opportunities variously
come available in laboratory and in lecture classes.
Click
here to apply for a peer teaching position. See photos and
read comments from our Biology Dept. Peer Teachers!
Peer Teachers
make substantial contributions to the learning experience
by offering students a further degree of individualized attention.
Perhaps more importantly, Peer Teachers can alter the dynamic
of the students' learning experience, by blurring distinctions
between teaching and learning, between professor and student,
in ways that foster excitement and enthusiasm. The effectiveness
of Peer Teachers is clear from the responses we consistently
receive from their students. In fact, many of our Peer Teachers
mention their own experiences with a Peer Teacher in previous
semesters as a factor in their decision to apply to the program.
Peer
Teachers find the experience enriching and rewarding. It gives
them the opportunity to develop their communication skills
and to explore their interests in teaching, while expanding
and deepening their own knowledge of the topics at hand. The
contributions of our Peer Teachers are formally recognized
within the department and at the university level each year,
but participants in the program are not paid or otherwise
compensated for their services; Peer Teaching is an act of
volunteerism and citizenship in the service of the University
of Virginia.
View
Photos and Apply for Peer Teaching Positions Here:
Introduction
to Biology I (BIOL 203)
Introduction
to Biology II: Fundamentals of Organismal Biology (BIOL 204)
Ecology
and Conservation of Fishes (BIOL 329)
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