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成为一个促进者
PAL讲师是我们PAL课程的学生领袖。 PAL讲师每周支付8小时,每小时17.86美元。 这些时间包括协助他们的PAL课程,参加主要课程的讲座,以及办公时间。 有经验的引导者可以申请领导引导者和监督引导者的高级领导职位。
此外,为了优化他们的经验,PAL辅导员参加NSM 197,这是一个2单元的分级课程(每周2小时),提供教学法和小组学习方面的培训,并有机会在实际PAL课程和练习框架之前运行问题集。 nsm197通常在周三晚上6-8点举行。 首先考虑的截止日期是11月1日,以便在春季学期和3月15日秋季学期。
注意: 由于不确定的资金条件,PAL将在2025年秋季支持哪些课程尚不清楚。 申请和面试过程将照常进行,但不幸的是,在获得进一步信息之前,工作机会将是暂定的。 本页将定期更新。
阴影
Students interested in possibly serving as a PAL Facilitator in the future are invited to “shadow” a current facilitator. 这是一个对出勤率和参与程度有严格要求的正式职位。 这个职位只在春季学期提供,申请截止日期为12月1日。
阴影必须:
- 参加所有PAL演练课程(周三晚上)
- 定期与项目教员会面,以确定在PAL课程中的角色
- 遵守严格的前期培训/观察政策; 这是为了确保没有接受过所有PAL训练的影子在会议期间不会无意中损害PAL模型
作为调解人的好处
知识
许多辅导员并没有在他们所辅导的班级中取得最高分。 引导者知道挣扎和想要放弃是什么感觉; 毕竟,他们和你一样都是学生! 他们一直在努力,现在他们在这里帮助其他学生取得成功。
PAL通过与学生一起解决问题,建立自信,帮助学生充分理解核心入门和高年级课程。 因此,引导者学习了解决问题和解释核心概念的新方法,这有助于建立课程内容的知识。
自我报告的促进的好处包括更自信,提出引导性问题,找到更好的学习和记忆信息的方法,如何组建学习小组以及如何准备课程。
- “I have gained better understanding of the subject I am a facilitator for and thus allows me to understand my own flaws as a student.”
- “PAL has allowed me to experience different types of learning strategies.”
- “PAL has allowed me to observe the common habits that cause students to underperform, and I can adjust my own habits to optimize the effectiveness of my study habits.”
- “Overall, it taught me how to become more effective in my studies.”

专业发展
当每个引导者站在教室前面时,不仅他们的知识和信心得到了提高,而且他们的专业水平也得到了提高。 引导者报告说,他们在领导力、公众演讲、解决问题和时间管理方面有了显著的提高。 最重要的是,引导者报告说,从担任引导者中获得的技能100%可以转移到他们生活的其他部分。 See our 研究页面 for results on PALumni career success.
- “I have gained better pubic speaking and problem solving skills I can take with me to any job. “
- “Being a PAL facilitator takes a lot of leadership, a positive and growing mindset, as well as a great amount of discipline.”
- “I can present ideas and communicate to people in a way that is more professional, scaffolding helps with the interviewing process.”
- “PAL has helped me to perfect my ability to multi-task which will be essential to success in a post graduate degree program.”
- ”我仍然非常感谢PAL,因为我从中学到了很多东西。 我每天都在工作中运用这些技能 当我在学校的时候。 For example, I do a lot of “translating” between technical and nontechnical departments and I get picked to demonstrate products and give presentations to vendors and other departments because of my communication skills. 当我在夏天管理实习生和培训新工程师时,我也会使用我的PAL技能。 Like asking leading questions, scaffolding problems, etc. 我要求同事们从不同的角度来看待我们的产品,以了解我们如何为不同类型的用户提供更好的产品。 "

研究
所有辅导员在跨学科团队中开展行动研究项目。 Learn more on our 研究页面.
- “PAL has prepared me by helping me discover my interest in research.”
- “It has given me an insight on education research and pedagogical methods in general.”
- “I gained firsthand experience with research including data gathering and analysis.”
- “The research aspect has also shown me the process of conducting and producing research, which I did not know prior to PAL.”
- “I have been given the opportunity to perform research and present my research at conferences.”
引导者怎么说
- “As a facilitator, I've had the pleasure of working with many different types of students, and I've learned different ways to motivate them and help them see the good in math, a very disliked subject. 这个项目确实帮助我提高了我的领导能力、沟通能力和时间管理能力,这些对我的职业道路都非常重要。 — Angelica Sippel
- “I have gained so much from the program since I started as student for PAL and now the facilitator is has been a privilege to see many students smile and thank me when they do so well in class because of PAL. And for those who don't carry that smile because of a test failure I make sure to keep them in the game until the last pitch because hard work can pay off in the end.” — Christian Sanchez
- “It really satisfies me to see my students smile and meet others who are struggling in Anatomy. Hearing them make plans to study and hang outside of class makes me feel like I’ve done my part. It’s definitely hard to remember all of the concepts and not being able to answer my students hurts me. 但我仍然在学习,我也是一个每天都在努力提高的学生。 We’re all in this together and no one judges each other for their performance. We're just trying our best to help each other succeed in such a challenging science course and college overall.” — Venus Villadelgado
- “I have learned how to approach people who are struggling. 当我个人面临挑战的时候,我能够认识到,在这种情况下,我不可能是唯一的一个。 当我第一次学习化学1A时,听说它有多难,我就寻找其他学生来合作,PAL项目就在那里,有我需要的社区。 Having the excuse to work on course material with other students, and now being able to help provide that excuse for new students has made experience at 囊状态 successful.” — George Brown
- ”我在PAL培养的演讲技巧和在一群人面前演讲的轻松程度对我的MBA课程有帮助。 有教授亲自告诉我,他们可以看到我已经排练过了,而且在演讲时非常自在,而实际上我没有时间练习或准备。 通过PAL课程和研究研讨会,PAL给了我在一群人面前流利而舒适地说话的技能。
Additionally, 我已经记不清有多少次在面试中提到了我的PAL经验。 Both with SMUD and the financial management company I work for, I referred back to my experience in PAL: how it gave me experience in research, communicating difficult concepts, managing groups of people, and ”我还不知道……”但我能学会。” The research that we did in PAL gave me experience with researching credible and reliable sources, data analysis, and how to present my findings in a clear and concise way. 在研讨会上的演讲,在教室里的学生面前”推销”PAL,以及在教室里的工作本身让我对自己的演讲技巧充满信心。 我相信正是这项技能让我获得了两份工作。 此外,作为首席引导者,引导新引导者的不同个性和工作风格,有助于我与我帮助管理的人进行日常沟通。” — Victoria Bigelow


