Af224-b Advanced Foundations for Learning

2 weeks ago

Waterloo, Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Full time

**Date**:Jan 31, 2025

**Location**: Waterloo, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Arts

**Department**: Office of the Dean of Arts

**Campus**: Waterloo

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9061

**Position Title**: AF224-A Advanced Foundations for Learning (Spring 2025)

**Term**: Spring term: May 1 - August 31, 2025

**Days/Times**: Monday and Wednesday 3:00 - 4:20 PM (VIRTUAL SYNCHRONOUS)

**Campus**: Waterloo / VIRTUAL SYNCHRONOUS

**Hours per week**: 3/36

**Anticipated Class Size**: 75

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Position Summary**:
AF 224 is the second part of the Strategies for Academic Success Program for students required to withdraw on academic grounds and seeking readmission. The course will be designed to support continued development of core competencies with an emphasis on supporting student growth in effective critical reading skills. The course must incorporate engaged pedagogies appropriate to the active learning classroom and include assignments that allow for the incremental development of academic skills. By the end of this course students should have an increased ability to critically engage with any text and relate information that they read to other readings, ideas, and themes in other courses. A draft syllabus has been created for this course, to ensure consistency with the themes established in SASP-001, the first mandatory course in the program.

**Qualifications Required**: Master’s Degree (MA)

**Qualifications Discipline**: Humanities, Social Sciences or Education

**Qualifications Other**:Preference will be given to applicants who have experience in teaching academic skills development at the university-level, as well as those who submit a teaching dossier with evidence of training and/or teaching experience in core academic competencies (reading, writing, research, oral presentation).

**Application Deadline**: February 15, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
Required for All Applicants:

- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants:

- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching

Optional:

- Cover letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

This appointment is in accordance with the Part-time Contract Academic Staff Collective Agreement, for which the Wilfrid Laurier Faculty Association (WLUFA) is the exclusive bargaining agent.

Please Note: For Supplementary Remuneration for large classes or multi-section courses, see Article 28.3

**Please Note**:
For Supplementary Remuneration for large classes or multi-section courses, see Article 28.3

Members of the designated groups must self-identify to the appropriate Dean(s) to be considered for employment equity.

Members of the Contract Teaching Faculty bargaining unit:
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