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The Rules of Faculty Club - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Graduate Student Prep

shared by Gary Brown on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • The third rule of Faculty Club: You must be a teacher to enter the club. Your adviser will not tell you that; your fellow graduate students won't understand that. So enjoy the research nirvana that is graduate school but know that you will be descending back into the cave if and when you are hired by a university. You may have difficulty accepting this rule. If you can't, stop reading this immediately and go back to work on your dissertation. Cease and desist. Only precede to Rule No. 4 once you have fully accepted and understood Rule No. 3. Once you do, then you must not expect to be given any actual guidance from your department on how to be a teacher. You will only be able to obtain those skills through your own efforts.
  • The fourth rule of Faculty Club: Your students will only know you as their teacher and do not care about your research unless you require them to know about your research. If you require them to know about your research, they will figure out your argument without understanding the complex road that you took to get there. That leads students to believe that the point of education is to tell a professor what he or she wants to hear rather than to think through the material for themselves.
  • You must be able to convey on a syllabus the course objective and the road map that you will be employing to get students there
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  • Nobody will ever tell you this, but your career will, in part, rest on having a well-thought-out philosophy of education
  • Teaching is a science. Be as methodical about developing teaching strategies and a teaching philosophy as you are in your research.
  • You must have enough teaching experience to handle Rules No. 5 and No. 6.
  • Stay focused on your research while being cognizant that you are preparing for a career as a teacher.
  • Gary Brown on 05 Nov 09
     
    another for those collecting the secret reality of teaching
Gary Brown

Doctoral Students Think Teaching Assistantships Hold Them Back - Faculty - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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TAs Graduate Student Prep

shared by Gary Brown on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Doctoral Students Think Teaching Assistantships Hold Them Back By Peter Schmidt A new survey of recent Ph.D. recipients has found that more than four out of five of those who received paid teaching assistantships believe that having them prolonged their doctoral education, though not enough to keep them from completing the programs in a timely manner.
  • Gary Brown on 01 Sep 09
     
    a hot topic for us right now, and the comments are important.
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