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I was one of the main graduate teaching assistants on this module, teaching multiple seminars per week, hosing office hours, giving feedback back to students, marking essays and exams, and ensuring students were supported and able to learn effectively.
I am currently teaching American Politics (Autumn 2018), being trusted enough to be the only Graduate Teaching Assistant on the module, teaching ten seminars a week on the study and analysis of American government, the Constitution, American elections, and the issues that arise as a result of the United States' government, studying both theory and case studies.
In this course, I taught on the subject of Politics in Europe for Dr Florian Stoeckel. I taught five classes a week, introducing students to European Politics and how to interpret different European rules, institutions and ideas. With the current focus of European politics in the current political climate, this is a very current module to teach, and the students were engaged with the material and active in the seminars.
I taught five seminars a week on this module convened by Dr Nils Christian-Bormann, which was concerned with studying how the state and society interacted and how they both governed and influenced each other. It focused also on the study of comparative politics, and how to actually understand political science as a subject. It was enjoyable to teach, and set up the students well for successive years in studying politics.
I was requested by the Department as an acknowledgement of my skills to assist undergraduates in essay writing methods. Students made an appointment with me, and I informed them of how they can improve their essay writing technique and how to get higher marks.
The 1-1 Essay Writing Skills Sessions program offers students the opportunity to meet with a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA) for a 30 minute session to help interpret and and take on board the feedback received on coursework for Politics modules in the Autumn. Students bring copies of first term essays to the appointment, together with the mark and feedback received on them. In the session tutors read the feedback on all essays, help interpret the feedback, identify particular issues and strategies for improvement and answer any questions students have about writing politics essays. For this, I was nominated for the Exeter University Guild Teaching Awards for providing best feedback, and I won in both Politics and SSIS.
I taught this course from September to December 2016, teaching five seminars a week and being responsible for over 100 students. I taught the basics of international relations theory from realism through to constructivism, focusing on how we can apply these theories to reality and how international politics can be analysed through different perspectives.
I taught American Politics for the spring term of 2015, leading three seminars a week on the study and analysis of American government, the Constitution, American elections, and the theoretical issues that arise as a result of the United States' government. I gave a lecture on the power of the American president in Week 6, demonstrating my capabilities as an academic and teacher.
I was one of the lead tutors for this module. In it, I was required to teach and lead seminars, mark essays, get them back to students in time, hold office hours, support students, and assist the module leader (Dr Victoria Basham) in her work.
