What are the responsibilities and job description for the SUMMER 2026 Graduate Student Employee - SPI Teaching Assistant position at Eastern Mennonite University?
2026 Summer Peacebuilding Institute Teaching Assistant Job Description
Title: SPI Teaching Assistant
Supervisor: Alena Yoder (Direct collaboration with course instructors)
Learning Objectives
- Deepen GA’s understanding of course curriculum and content.
- Deepen GA’s capacity to support, facilitate and teach elements of course content.
- Curriculum development experience: GA highlight (and if possible, fill) gaps in learning materials and augment trainer support/notes/preparation structures.
Skills required
- GA must be a current graduate student at CJP.
- Group facilitation and communication: potential to help to facilitate group talk-backs and q&a sessions.
- Concise presentation of information: Depending on preparation and comfort with the material, GA may present some of the course content.
- Detail orientation and capacity to navigate multiple information sources at the same time (Moodle, Run of Session, slides, support documents for shared processing in sessions, group tracking sheet, breakout groups, Workbook)
- Flexibility: Capacity to go with the flow (if plans change).
Deliverables and outcomes
- Show up for the full SPI Course.
- Engage in prep meetings with the facilitation team before the course begins and before and after each class day.
- Familiarize self with the learning materials: if desired, present some of the content.
- Identify further needs in the learning support materials (workbook, moodle, STAR Trainer Manual): offer critical feedback
Expected hours per week and Timeframe needed:
- Up to 15 hours of prep before the course, 40 hours during the week of the intensive course, up to 10 hours after the week of the course for follow up and meeting with the instruction team.