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Description
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The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)
and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the
University of Michigan created a Seminar on College Teaching
designed to help advanced graduate students prepare for
their first academic jobs. While our effort builds on work
that is occurring at over one hundred institutions that
participate in Preparing Future Faculty (PPF) programs, it
also combines the unique strengths of the University of
Michigan: we have faculty in a nationally recognized program
in the study of higher education (the Center for the Study
of Higher and Postsecondary Education) as well as
instructional consultants in the largest and oldest teaching
center in the country (CRLT). Drawing on both of these sets
of expertise, we designed a program that would address the
issues common to other PFF programs (creating teaching
portfolios and statements of teaching philosophy, examining
topics in pedagogy in more depth), while adding a major
component in which graduate students would study the context
of higher education,such as tenure and faculty life types of
institutions (including visits to local liberal arts and
Master's institutions) current initiatives in the academy
(e.g., outcomes assessment, technology) a history of access
to higher education and changing student demographics.
We also focused our efforts on advanced graduate
students, those who were ABD and were about to hit the job
market. As a result, we were able to provide a brief
(one-month long), intensive experience that will not only
help graduate students be successful on the job market, but
also help them to be successful in their first jobs by
giving them a more developed awareness of academia and how
it functions.
Visit our website at:
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/teaching_seminar.html
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