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| PEER TEACHING PROGRAM | ||||||
| The Undergraduate Peer Teaching Program in Biology offers students the opportunity to serve as under-graduate 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. |
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| 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. | ||||||
| BIOLOGY 2030 PEER TEACHING | ||||||
Biology 203 (Introduction to Biology I) is offered in the fall of each academic year to nearly 600 students in 20 or more 24-student lab sections. Each section is staffed by a graduate lab instructor and an undergraduate peer teacher. Biology 203 encompasses 2 primary areas: DNA analysis (transformation, sequencing, RFLP and restriction mapping) and protein analysis (affinity chromatography, concentration analysis, SDS gel electrophoresis, peptide mapping). Peer teachers will work closely with students in one lab section per week to enhance the classroom learning experience and promote further understanding of the material.
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| BIOLOGY 2040 PEER TEACHING | ||||||
Biology 2040 (Introduction to Biology II) is offered in the spring of each academic year to approximately 550 students in 22 or more 24-student lab sections. Each section is staffed by a graduate lab instructor and at least one undergraduate Peer Teacher. |
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