Centre for Learning and Teaching
Email: CLT@Dal.Ca
Although there is no registration fee, please register to ensure adequate materials are available. Contact CLT at 494-1622 or email CLT@Dal.Ca with your name, department, and phone number.
Your fellow workshop participants may be scent-sensitive. Please refrain from wearing scented products to this workshop.
An effective framework for understanding and facilitating graduate student education is important for the ongoing development of graduate students and for establishing an atmosphere that encourages the growth of faculty members as graduate student instructors, advisors, employers and mentors. In addition to offering graduate students the opportunity to learn from each other, this discussion group will also create a space for a dialogue between graduate students and faculty on all matters relating to graduate student learning and teaching. Participants are strongly encouraged to complete all the readings in advance of the sessions.
February 14th 2012, 1:30-3:00pm
The theme for this discussion session is graduate student professional development
Readings:
1. Paul Ginns, Jim Kitay, and Mike Prosser. Developing conceptions of teaching and the scholarship of teaching through a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education.
International Journal of Academic Development. Volume 13, issue 3, 2008, 175-185.
http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.library.dal.ca/doi/abs/10.1080/13601440802242382
2. Brower, M. Aaron., Dakes-Carlson, G. Christopher., Barger, S. Shihmei. A Learning Community Model of Graduate Student Professional Development for
Teaching Excellence. Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education. Working Paper, May 30, 2007.
http://wiscape.wisc.edu/uploads/media/9ec8f9c0-b090-4a83-bcbc-10dac1fc2bbe.pdf
3. Kristen A. Renn and Eric R. Jessup-Anger. Preparing New Professionals: Lessons for Graduate Preparation Programs from the National Study of
New professionals in Student Affairs. Journal of College Student Development. 49(4), July/August 2008, p. 319-355.
http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.library.dal.ca/journals/csd/summary/v049/49.4.renn.html
March 20th, 2012, 1:30-3:00pm
The theme for this discussion session is graduate student writing
Readings:
1. Elander, J., Harringon, K., Norton, L. Robinson, Hannah., Reddy, Pete. Complex skills and academic writing: a review of evidence about the types of learning required to meet core assessment criteria.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. 31(1), February 2006, 71-90.
http://ibs.derby.ac.uk/staff/Elander%20PDF%204.pdf
2. Kellogg, T. Ronald. Training writing skills: A cognitive development perspective. Journal of Writing Research, 1(1), 2008, 1-26
http://neillthew.typepad.com/files/training-writing-skills.pdf
3. Yongyan Li. Apprentice Scholarly Writing in a Community of Practice: An Interview of a NNES Graduate Student Writing a Research Article. TESOL Quarterly. Mar. 2007, 55-79.
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.dal.ca/stable/10.2307/40264331
April 17, 2012, 1:30-3:00pm
The theme for this discussion session is graduate student preparation for academic and non-academic employment
1. Edward McAuley, Becoming a Faculty Member: Transition from Graduate Student/Post-Doc to the Tenure Track (or ….So you Got the Job…Now What?)
http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/mentor/Becomingfaculty.htm
2. Austin, Ann E. Preparing the Next Generation of Faculty: Graduate School as Socialization to the Academic Career. The Journal of Higher Education73(1), 2002, 94-122.
http://202.198.141.51/upload/soft/0000/73.1austin%5B1%5D.pdf
3. Non-academic jobs
http://qtstreamer.doit.wisc.edu/gsa/Getting_a_Job_os_Academia.mov
Supplementary information
Additional advice and resources can be found on the following websites:
http://www.cags.ca/media/docs/cags-publication/Prof Skills Dev for Grad Stud Final 08 11 05.pdf
http://www.grad.wisc.edu/education/gspd/careerplanning.html
http://learningandteaching.dal.ca/focus2/Vol17No2pp10-11.pdf
http://kiosk.ucsb.edu/Scholarship/GettingMost.aspx
