Below is the announcement of the annual "Preparing Future Faculty Seminar" co-sponsored by Rackham and CRLT in May. Please feel free to forward to graduate students and post-doctoral scholars in your departments who might be interested in the program.
Best regards,
Laura N. Schram, PhD
Assistant Director
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)
Assistant Director
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)
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The Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) seek applicants for the fifteenth annual Seminar on College Teaching designed to help prepare senior graduate students for faculty careers. For this nationally-recognized seminar, we are seeking advanced graduate students who have achieved candidacy and have college or university teaching experience.
Deadline for applications for the program is Monday, February 24, 2014 at 4:00pm.
The Seminar will include the following topics:
1. Preparation for an academic job search, including assistance with the creation of a statement of teaching philosophy and a syllabus.
2. Information about higher education (e.g., institutional types, governance and accountability, the nature of today's students, tenure, and faculty work-life), including field trips to local college campuses.
3. Discussion of effective and reflective teaching, including meetings with faculty members from U-M and neighboring institutions, conversations about multicultural teaching and learning, and demonstrations of and reflection on the use of instructional technology.
The five-week Seminar will begin Tuesday, May 6 and end Thursday, June 5, meeting every Tuesdayand Thursday from 8:30 - 1:30. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more information on the Seminar, please see: http://www.crlt.umich.
Applicants should submit the following information using an online application form: http://www.crlt.umich.
1) Application form that includes contact information, candidacy, teaching experiences, and teaching-related training.
2) A cover letter (limited to 2 single-spaced pages) which answers the following questions:
· At which type of academic institution would you like to be a faculty member (e.g., research-oriented, teaching-oriented, or a mix) and why?
· What are your core values regarding teaching? Please provide examples from your own teaching as a GSI and/or learning as a student.
· How will the Seminar enhance your previous training and experience as a college-level teacher?
· What else do you hope to gain from the PFF Seminar?
3) A current CV
Please do not respond to this e-mail with questions. Please e-mail PFFSeminarAPPS@umich.
Deadline for applications is Monday, February 24, 2014 at 4:00pm.
