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Summer PROFessional Development is back!

July 25, 2016 / / 0 Comments

FFSummerProfSeriesOur first meeting of 2016 will be 3:30-4:30 pm on Friday, July 29 in 401 Physical Sciences Building. RSVPs appreciated, but feel free to come to this or any other discussion, whether or not you let us know ahead of time.

Do you love teaching and want that to be a part of your career? Would you like a low-pressure, low-commitment opportunity to pursue that interest over the summer?

Summer PROFessional Development is a community of grad students and postdocs who are interested in teaching in higher education. We’ll meet on Friday afternoons to talk about teaching and how to get a job at a college or university that emphasizes it. We’ll discuss topics such as:

  • Teaching professional development opportunities, from courses to certificates,
  • Communication and listening skills for teaching and mentoring,
  • Diversity in the classroom,
  • Talking to your supervisor about your interest in teaching.

Enhancing and Documenting Your Training in Teaching

Sponsored by the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CU-CIRTL).

Week 7 Summary

August 26, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Here is a nice summary of our final summer discussion, courtesy of Maggie. A panel of colleagues discussed their experiences with part-time lecturing and adjuncting at local universities while in graduate school or in training as a postdoc. An important point in our discussions was to figure out how to make this kind of arrangement work for you, rather than become your work. The benefits will be practical job experience and student learning rather than competitive wages.

Week 7 Summary (PDF)

August 14, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

August 26, 2015 / / 0 Comments

In our final session of the summer, we discussed how to get experience as an instructor of record for a course through adjuncting or part-time lecturing opportunities at local colleges. We heard from a panel of four graduate students and postdocs who have interviewed or worked at Ithaca College, Cornell, TC3, and SUNY Cortland.  While we are always fleshing this out as a group project, here’s the start of a page about Teaching Opportunities.

You can download the Week 7 handout here: PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week7 (PDF)

Week 6 Summary

August 19, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Thanks to Anna for writing up this summary of Week 6. We discussed what Teaching as Research (TAR) means and what opportunities and support exist to conduct a TAR project. Our student panel also discussed how to get involved if you aren’t currently teaching, and described their experiences with insuring “human subjects” protection.

Week 6 Summary (PDF)

August 7, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

August 12, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Week 6’s session introduced the topic of Teaching as Research and included a panel of three graduate students who have designed investigations around teaching and learning in their discipline. We also started a new resource page about Teaching as Research.

You can download the Week 6 handout here: PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week6 (PDF)

Week 5 Summary

August 12, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Matthew wrote up a great summary of our Week 5 Summer PROFessional Development session on Diversity in the Classroom (July 31, 2015).

Week 5 Summary (PDF)

July 31, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

August 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Week 5’s session included a discussion of diversity in the classroom and diversity statements. View our recommended resources on the Diversity Statement page.

The session handout is available here: PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week5-revised (PDF)

Week 4 Summary

July 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Thanks, Cassie, for writing up a summary of this week’s session on the value of research postdocs! Feel free to share this resource with friends and colleagues who might also be interested in postdoc opportunities.

Week 4 Summary (PDF)

July 24, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

July 27, 2015 / / Comments Off on July 24, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

This week’s session is a chance for you to ask questions of someone who’s served on hiring committees and two people who’ve recently been through the hiring process. It’ll be a panel discussion on the topic “Why Hiring Committees at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Prefer Candidates with Postdoc Experience” with guests Luke Keller, Moria Chambers, and Carl Ferkinhoff. Luke is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ithaca College and has served on several hiring committees; Moria is finishing up a postdoc at Cornell, and is about to start to a job as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA; and Carl got his PhD at Cornell, is currently a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and will be moving to Minnesota in January to start a tenure-track job at Winona State University.

PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week4 (PDF)

Update: See also our Week 4 Summary if you missed the session!

July 10, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

July 9, 2015 / / Comments Off on July 10, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

Teaching Philosophy Statements, and Finding your Institutional Fit

Where do you want to work?  A large research-focused institution?  A private liberal arts school?  How about a large (or small!) public institution, or a community or tribal college?   How can you show a hiring committee that your teaching style will be an amazing asset for their department (even if you don’t have much teaching experience)?

In this week’s session, everyone will get an overview to both of these subjects before we split into two groups so that you can explore one of the topics in-depth.  We’ll post all of the resources on the website early next week.

PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week3 (PDF)

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