So You Want to Be a Professor? : a Handbook for Graduate Students.

So You Want to Be a Professor? : a Handbook for Graduate Students.

Maybe you'd like to combine the two loves of your life, teaching and scholarship, and perhaps build a satisfying and profitable academic career, but you're not sure if this is really what you want or how to go about it. Or maybe you've made up your mind but need some good advice on ho...

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Main Author: Vesilind, P. . Aarne Aarne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1999.
Series:Continuing Education Ser.
Subjects:
College teachers > Employment > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
College teaching > Vocational guidance > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Graduate students > Employment > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
College teachers > Employment
College teaching > Vocational guidance
Graduate students > Employment
United States
Handbooks and manuals
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1
  • Employment Opportunities In Academia; The American Higher Educational System; Expectations Differ for Faculties at Different Colleges and Universities; The Good and the Bad of Choosing an Academic Career; Chapter 2
  • Getting on Academic Job; To Post-Doc or Not to Post-Doc?; Choosing Where to Apply for a Tenure-Track Job; Salary; Other Considerations; Applying for a Job While Holding the ABD; The Job Opening; The Job Notice; The Application; The Screening; The Interview; The Seminar; The Second Visit; The Rejection; The Offer; Appendix: Internet Resources
  • Chapter 3
  • Learning to TeachHow Students Learn; Sensory Learning; Motivation; Intellectual Development; Chapter 4
  • Organising a Course; Deciding What Students Should Learn; Choosing a Text; Writing the Syllabus; Chapter 5
  • Presenting a Course; Lecturing; Using Visual Aids; Alternatives to Lectures; Chapter 6
  • Meeting Vour First Class; First-Time Fears; The First Class Session; Chapter 7
  • Testing and Evaluation; Validity and Reliability; Giving Tests; Student Evaluations; Chapter 8
  • Advising and Mentoring; Making Students Welcome; Student-Specific Advising
  • Responding to Personal ProblemsMentoring; Chapter 9
  • Research and Scholarship; Why Universities Emphasize Research and Published Scholarship; Choosing the Topic for Research or Scholarship; Choosing the Funding Agency; Writing Your Proposal; Getting Your Proposal Funded; Chapter 10
  • Publishing; How to Write a Scholarly Paper; Submitting Yout Paper for Publication; The Sticky Question o f Authorship; Writing a Book; Presenting Papers at Scholarly Conferences; Chapter 11
  • Getting Tenure; The Origins and Justification for Tenure; The Tenuring Process; An Alternative Path to Tenure
  • Is There Life After a Negative Tenure Decision?Arguments Against Tenure; Chapter 12
  • Academic Integrity; Moral Justification for Academic Honor; Preventing Cheating; Using the Judicial System; Honor in Research and Publishing; Conflict of Interest; Copyrights and Patents; Moral Responsibility to and of the Professorate; Chapter 13
  • Getting fired; Six Ways to Lose a Tenured Academic Job; Justification for Moral Rules in Academia; Chapter 14
  • The Academic Career; Keeping the Balls in the Air; Progression of Your Academic Career; Epilogue; Appendix: Supplementary Readings; Index

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