OS GSI Winter

Applicants must include with this application the following materials:

• 1) a cover letter that explicitly notes experience and interest in the topic of business and sustainability
• 2) a resume or curriculum vita
• 3) any available teaching evaluations
• 4) copy of the undergraduate and graduate transcript (unofficial is fine)
• 5) teaching history (list course and department)

GSIs will be expected to attend every lecture and hold regular office hours. GSIs may be asked to deliver one lecture during the course of the semester. GSIs will have primary responsibility for their individual sections, which will include a mix of exercises designed by the instructor and group analyses of corporate sustainability facilitated by the GSI. GSIs will have primary responsibility for grading, in consultation with the faculty, and will meet weekly with the professor during the semester.

GSIs will also be responsible for maintaining and updating grade sheets on Canvas and other records.

In compliance with Appendix A of the  UM/GEO agreement (see pg. 127-129 of the UM/GEO agreement) and as part of the training, the College of LSA also requires that potential GSIs whose undergraduate medium of instruction is not English be evaluated for effective proficiency in classroom English. Effective proficiency includes fluent and intelligible speech, the ability to understand the English spoken by the undergraduate students, the ability to produce organized, coherent explanations, and the ability to contribute to the development of interactions with their students.

Graduate students are exempt from ELI 994 and the Graduate Student Instructor Oral English Test (GSI-OET) if they hold an undergraduate degree from a U.S. college or university, or an undergraduate degree from a college or university where English is the exclusive medium of instruction. The Department Chair can also refer to the course potential GSIs who need additional language instruction and/or introduction and orientation to the American university classroom and community.

If referred, attendance and satisfactory completion is required as a condition of employment as a GSI. Students who are exempt may take the training course on a space-permitting basis. As part of the training and testing, graduate students are required to demonstrate their effective proficiency by taking the GSI-OET conducted by independent evaluators from the Testing Division at the ELI and a faculty representative from the department in which the prospective GSI will be teaching.

In the event that an examinee does not successfully complete the GSI-OET at the end of a course, it is incumbent on the department that made admission and support offers to identify alternative support resources that are not GSI positions and that do not require direct contact with undergraduate students. In the event that an examinee does not successfully complete the GSI-OET at the end of a course, it is incumbent on the department that made admission and support offers to identify alternative support resources that are not GSI positions and that do not require direct contact with undergraduate students.

It is not required that these "backup" support systems offer conditions of support that are identical or comparable in level to that which would come from a regular GSI position, but they must be sufficient to meet Department of Homeland Security requirements that the international student be able to demonstrate the existence of financial support during the first year of study.

Such alternative support is contingent on the student's concurrently fulfilling ELI course requirements identified in the GSI-OET. This Test is provided at no cost to the student, and the ELI…