{"id":23027,"date":"2025-11-03T11:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/?page_id=23027"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:36:44","slug":"how-to-become-a-ucs-160-or-161-teaching-assistant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/how-to-become-a-ucs-160-or-161-teaching-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Become a UCS 160 or 161 Teaching Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23028\" style=\"width:721px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-1536x861.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-2048x1148.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-364x204.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-1000x561.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-1280x718.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1-2000x1121.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/IMG_2980-1.jpg 2340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an undergraduate teaching assistant in UCS 160 or 161, you&#8217;ll have opportunities to strengthen your academic, teaching, planning and mentoring skills by supporting other students in and outside of the classroom. <em>UCS 160: Success in Higher Education <\/em>and <em>UCS 161: Becoming a More Self Directed Learner <\/em>are 1 credit coruses that meet once per week. In the TA role, you would work closely with your section&#8217;s instructor on things like lesson planning, activity facilitation, and homework feedback. The position averages 6 hours per week at $16.00 per hour. Work study is gladly acccepted but not required.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1063\/UCS-160_161-Teaching-Assistant-_-Academic-Enhancement-Center-Position-Description.pdf\" title=\"\">Read the UCS 160\/161 TA Job description<\/a>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeA-voSMgZbIOZ-83gMKRTLTTdHEr2QGVyDpMfG76-C32j3fQ\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=107915439376556233790\" title=\"\">Apply to be a ucs 160\/161 ta<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an undergraduate teaching assistant in UCS 160 or 161, you&#8217;ll have opportunities to strengthen your academic, teaching, planning and mentoring skills by supporting other students in and outside of the classroom. UCS 160: Success in Higher Education and UCS 161: Becoming a More Self Directed Learner are 1 credit coruses that meet once per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":23028,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-23027","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23034,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23027\/revisions\/23034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/aec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}