[Teaching job application] Links for job position

Hi all,
These are the Links for job position that I used for teaching job application project. Hope it helps.

http://www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?sid=9
http://www.aejmc.org/
https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/default.cfm

Jooyun

Philosophy Resources

When it comes time for you to begin work on your teaching philosophy next week, you may want to refer to these sites. They are each very helpful, and we'll cover some of the material in class Monday.

See you tomorrow!
Wendy

http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/philosophy/Phil_guidance.html

http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/philosophy.html

http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/philosophy/start/index.html

A helpful concise list of teaching strategies

I wanted to share a helpful article that you should bookmark for your teaching -- Tom Drummond's A Brief Summary of Best Teaching Practices.

I discovered the article several years ago and think Drummond does an excellent job in a concise space of describing different teaching strategies and how they can be applied.

I haven't tried every on of these in my teaching career but have tried most of them -- and try to include a variety in every class every semester.

We've talked about, read about and tried quite a few of these -- but not all of them.

Syllabus project -- recycling?

I enjoyed reading everyone's syllabus projects. Your courses demonstrated your skills in instructional design and in using a variety of teaching and learning strategies. I appreciated the planning that was involved in putting together each syllabus and the related teaching materials.

For the purposes of the course, you do NOT need to revise and resubmit your course project. You may do so if you would like me to review your materials for regrading. If you would like to do that, please submit the original materials along with the revised materials to assist me in seeing the improvements you have made. 

The deadline for resubmission is Wednesday, Dec. 17. But I'd be glad to receive those materials sooner to cut down on how much I have to grade starting on the 17th. 

Preparing a job application package

A vital part of obtaining a job in higher education is your application package. Our final course project is designed to help you prepare for applying for a college teaching position in the future.

I realize that everyone is not at the same stage in terms of the degree being earned and the readiness to apply for a faculty position. The purpose of this assignment is to help you prepare materials and to realize what else you would need to do to be competitive for a faculty position when the time comes for you to apply.

You are to identify a  potential job and then prepare:

• A cover letter -- Bring the job description to class on Monday, and we'll talk about writing a cover letter.
  
• Your vitae -- Please bring your vitae to class for discussion -- not to turn in. For examples of CVs and for advice about creating your CV, see The Chronicle of Higher Education's CV Doctor
  
• A statement of your teaching philosophy -- Wendy has made an assignment that will help you in developing your own teaching philosophy.

We'll also talk about other materials you might include in your job application, including a teaching portfolio. But those materials are not required for your class final project.

The deadline for the application materials is Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 10 a.m. -- delivered to my mailbox or to my office. This is a paper submission, not electronic.

The application materials and CV are patterned after tenure and promotion guidelines. I would encourage you to scan UF's T&P guidelines. We'll talk about those on Monday, too.

Teaching Philosophy

As we discussed briefly Monday, next week we'll discuss teaching philosophy in more detail. Having a philosophy for our final job application project is necessary, of course, but please don't panic; it's not going to be as bad as you might think! Nor will it be as time consuming as you might imagine. (I think we're all in deadline panic mode at this point.)

To get your creative juices flowing, I'd like you to take just five or ten minutes before next Monday to think about teachers who have significantly impacted your life. Feel free to think back as far as kindergarten, if you wish. Who were the best teachers? What made them memorable? What made them effective? Choose three of your favorite teachers and write a paragraph about each, describing what it was that made them special to you. We'll share some of these in class. (Writing these graphs is your project in lieu of reading the Exceptional Teachers book--I did that! In your copious spare time, though, if you can get your hands on a copy of that book, just flip through it. It is a collection of essays written by award-winning teachers, and some are written as philosophies. The anecdotes are heart-warming, but it might also give you some good ideas for writing philosophies later on.)

For those of you who may have limited or no teaching experience, please don't worry. We'll talk about this more on Monday, but I'm discovering that writing a teaching philosophy often has less to do with where you have been on your teaching path than where you hope to go.

See you Monday!

Wendy

Cooperative Learning Resources

Here are some of the resources I was telling you about in class Monday. I didn't end up using all of them for my presentation, but some of these sites are so incredibly helpful that I wanted to pass them along anyway. Even if you don't have time to visit any others, take 30 seconds to check out the first one--Oregon's resources for new teachers. It's great!

I had a good time with you on Monday. Thanks so much for being patient with my cough! =)

Wendy



First time teaching resources

http://www.uoregon.edu/~tep/resources/newteach/intro.html

Common Student Fears About Group Work—Send your students here!

http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/processes/group/list8.cfm

Group Work Tutorial for Teachers

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/CL/doingcl/groups.htm

Collaborative learning
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html

http://www.isedj.org/isecon/2005/2342/ISECON.2005.Kelm.pdf

http://jmd.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/106

Grading group projects

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/group_grading.html

http://www.teachtech.ilstu.edu/additional/tips/grpGrading.php

Rubrics

http://www.usm.edu/qep/docs/NFS_Group_Project_Rubric.htm

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/disciplines/engineering/grading/grade4101.html

http://salsa.missioncollege.org/files/harrison/studentGroupProjectGradingRu.doc

http://a-s.clayton.edu/furlong/Biocomputing/Spring07/Oral%20presentations/Grading%20rubric%20group.doc

http://cte.udel.edu/PDFs/rubricsudwc.pdf