Tip Sheets: Career Development
Gather meaningful midterm feedback to enhance teaching effectiveness, address student needs, and improve the learning experience in real time.
Showcase your teaching effectiveness with a well-crafted dossier that highlights your philosophy, practices, and impact through reflective narratives and supporting evidence.
Articulate your teaching philosophy with reflective exercises that help you examine your values, beliefs, and teaching practices.
Support professional growth and collegial connection through faculty mentoring, with strategies for building meaningful relationships, setting goals, and fostering mutual development.
Maximize your teaching experience as a graduate student by setting clear goals, seeking feedback, and reflecting on your development to support both your teaching and academic growth.
Guidance for graduate students, new faculty, and others in delivering effective guest lectures.
Recognize and address imposter feelings in yourself and your students by exploring strategies that build confidence, normalize self-doubt, and foster a supportive learning environment.
Strengthen your academic CV with strategies for organizing content, highlighting teaching and research experience, and tailoring it to reflect your evolving professional goals.
Enhance teaching effectiveness and professional growth by engaging in peer review processes that foster constructive feedback, encourage reflective practice, and support a culture of continuous improvement.
Strengthen your classroom presence by refining delivery skills such as voice, pacing, body language, and eye contact to communicate clearly, maintain student attention, and foster an engaging learning environment.
Use student course feedback as a tool for growth by identifying patterns, reflecting on teaching practices, and setting actionable goals that enhance learning experiences and demonstrate responsiveness to student input.
Cultivate effective supervisory relationships by establishing clear expectations, maintaining open communication, and fostering mutual respect to support student growth, autonomy, and academic success.
Prepare for a successful TA experience by asking key questions about course expectations, communication protocols, and responsibilities, ensuring clarity, confidence, and effective support for student learning.
Enhance teaching effectiveness by using student course perception surveys as a reflective tool to identify strengths, uncover areas for growth, and inform intentional improvements in course design and delivery.
Foster continuous improvement in your teaching by using reflection tools that surface insights, track progress, and guide intentional changes aligned with your goals and student needs.