Student Library Instructor in Teaching & Learning Programs

Job no: 509134
Position type: UW Student Jobs
Location: Partially Remote
Division/Equivalent: General Library
School/Unit: Teaching and Learning Programs
Categories: Leadership, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Teamwork/Collaboration, Education and Training, Libraries, Archives, and Museums

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Department Overview:

 The Libraries’ Teaching & Learning Programs (TLP) Office collaborates with faculty, instructional staff, and campus administrators to help students become efficient, effective users and producers of information. Additionally, the TLP Office manages the campus common reading program, Go Big Read, in collaboration with the Office of the Chancellor.

Anticipated Start Date:

 August 18, 2025

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

  

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Partially Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 Minimum: 7 Maximum: 10

Schedule:

 Regular weekly meeting and scheduled remote work time; instruction schedule changes weekly based on class schedule

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 $15.00

Number of Positions:

 1-2

Qualifications:

 - Currently enrolled at UW-Madison
- Strong interest in instruction, instructional design and/or libraries
- Comfort with public speaking

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with librarians, instructors, and students
- Great organizational, communication, and time management skills
- Ability to speak in front of a class for 50-75 minutes

Position Summary/Job Duties:

Student Library Instructors serve an important role in the UW-Madison Libraries’ instruction program by teaching information literacy sessions for first-year writing and composition courses.

This position will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
- Leading library information literacy sessions for first-level writing and composition courses
- Communicating with class instructors and responding to student questions
- Assisting with curriculum review & development, and scheduling for large-enrollment courses
- Assisting with assessment initiatives and statistics for library instruction administration
- Participating in a small shared learning cohort of student library instructors
- Possibility to assist with library information literacy instruction in other areas of interest
- Possibility for projects of professional interest

Skills you will develop in this position:
- Library information literacy instruction
- Teaching & public speaking
- Project management
- Communication
- Curriculum review & development
- Assessment and analytics
- Collaborative teamwork

Physical Demands:

Ability to speak in front a class for 50-75 minutes

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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