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Title: Welcome to GSTEPNFTEP
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Welcome to GSTEP/NFTEP!
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Program purposes
- Provides opportunities to engage in a
one-semester series of seminars, workshops, and
activities about teaching and learning and
academic careers - designed to enhance teaching interest, knowledge,
practice, and effectiveness. - intended to create interdisciplinary connections
and community
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Program format
- Seminars every two or three weeks for you to
select from. Presentation times vary. - Some sessions targeted to GSTEP/NFTEP members.
You are particularly encouraged to attend these,
because this is an opportunity to network with
other grad students/new faculty.
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Your responsibilities
- NFTEP and Core GSTEP members 8 sessions, plus a
project - GSTEP Affiliate members 4 sessions
- What counts? You can mix and match from sessions
offered by CELT, Liberal Education, Center for
Writing Excellence. Up to half can come from
Miami's national Lilly Conference on College
Teaching. - Everyone does a program reflections journal, due
at the end of the term.
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Your rewards
- Core GSTEP 1 course credit, 200 professional
expenses, a book about teaching, certificate of
recognition - Affiliate GSTEP Certificate of recognition
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Introduction to Blackboard (Blackboard Basics)
Podcasting Blackboard Course Design Online
Quizzes Tests Introduction to the Blackboard
Content System Respondus Easing Quiz Test
Creation Respondus Easing Quiz Test Creation
Using Blackboard's Assignments Tool Effectively
Communicating Effectively with Blackboard Using
Blackboard Gradebook Effectively Online Groups
Strategies for Success Wikis Blogs in
Blackboard WebQuests Introduction to TurnItIn
Applications Blogging as an Instructional Tool
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Planning ahead for an academic job
- Special thanks to Mike Brudzinski, MU Geology
- DeNeef (2002) What colleges want in new faculty
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Overview
- Varieties of academic institutions and their
expectations for faculty activities - What can you do now to prepare?
- Steps in the job hunt focus on the application
packet - Career placement preparation
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Kinds of academic institutions
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Teaching expectations
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Research expectations
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Service expectations
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Teaching preparation
- Seek successively more independent teaching
experiences. If relevant, seek opportunities to
teach at a different institution, to teach
different types of classes. - Seek seminars in teaching, supervision/
mentoring by experienced teachers, and/or regular
discussions of classroom problems with peers. - Learn about new pedagogies (e.g., active
learning), and curricular goals such as
service-learning, multiculturalism, information
literacy. - Learn to address the learning needs of students
from diverse backgrounds. - Observe/learn from outstanding teachers.
- Articulate your philosophy of teaching, assess
your effectiveness develop a professional
portfolio. - Seek resources to support your development as
teachers, e.g., campus teaching-learning center.
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Research preparation
- Seek experience in conducting publishable
research, presenting it at conferences and
writing it for refereed journals, and writing
grant proposals. - Gain experience in lab management issues such as
hiring, ordering supplies, scheduling, etc. - Gain experience in involving undergraduates in
your research and mentoring student projects. - Talk to your research mentor about professional
standards concerning authorships, refereeing of
manuscripts, use of human subjects, etc. - Seek relevant networking opportunities, e.g., top
researchers in the field vs. collaborators in
other disciplines. - Discuss with your mentor how to adapt to
potential limitations on research time support
at hiring institutions.
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Service preparation
- Discuss with your mentor issues such as academic
politics, the impact of a visiting/term position
on ones career, problems experienced by token
faculty. - Seek opportunities to be involved in governance
and application of expertise to the community. If
relevant, attend faculty meetings at a
non-doctoral institution. - Learn about advising and career paths for
undergraduate majors in your discipline. - Learn about different institutions service
expectations, evaluation, reward tenure
systems. Shadow a faculty member through a day.
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Steps in the job hunt
- Application packet
- Interviews
- Negotiations
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Your Application packet
- Cover Letter
- CV / Resume
- Research Statement
- Teaching Statement
- Letters of Reference
- Publications
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Cover Letter
- Try to keep it one page or less
- Describe your identity clearly
- Illustrate your abilities with examples
- Suggest how you would fit in
- Department
- School
- Surroundings
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CV / Resume
- Contact info
- List all career related activities
- Research, Teaching, Service, Work Experience
- Things you might not think of
- Funding, Mentoring, Outreach
- Warning Some will only look at publications
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Research Statement
- Approximately 2 pages
- Well organized use bullets, numbers, bold
- Will need to have some timeline aspect
- Previous work, Current work, Next step, Five-year
plan - Topical organization is better
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Teaching Statement
- Approximately 2 pages
- Decide on Philosophy or Logistics/Courses
- Illustrate with examples
- Include training and/or experience
- Consider department needs
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Letters of Reference
- At least 3, quality better than quantity
- Tell them what your aim is
- Provide them with full application materials
- Big names mean a lot, but know the climate
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Publications
- If feasible, it is good to provide copies
- Probably only need one copy for your file
- Could use internet links in CV, but limited
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Career placement preparation
- Practice your job talks, both research
presentations and teaching a sample class. - Seek examples of cover letters, vitas, teaching
and research statements geared to different types
of institutions. - Seek opportunities to discuss hiring practices
with faculty/chairs from the type of institution
youre interested in. - Become aware of multiple types/pathways of
academic careers, e.g., part-time work, community
colleges, virtual universities, corporate
universities, and continuing education programs.
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Climb the steps to success!
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