As you prepare a your written application materials to use when entering the Academic Job Market, in addition to the standard Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter, and a diversity statements, you may be asked submit a Teaching Statement . In general, teaching statements help search committees gain an understanding about how you approach teaching courses in your academic discipline. This statement, that will include your philosophy towards teaching science, will give the reader a concise synopsis of the underpinnings and origins to your approach to teaching followed by the strategies you plan to use, and examples and evidence of your success. The authors of, The Academic Job Search Handbook (5th…
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Staying Sane During the Waiting Game for Professional School Admission
We are going into the archives to re-post this blog for those of you who are in the process of applying to professional schools. 0
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How to Have Productive Career Counseling and Pre-professional Advising Sessions
Many of our NIH post bacs, postdocs and graduate students ask the question, “What can I expect from my counseling or advising meeting?” To answer this question fully is to realize that the route to having successful counseling and advising sessions, like any relationship, is a two-way street. The services that these career services professionals provide to you will come from one direction. For example, review the OITE blog post on reasons to seek career counseling. You may want to meet with a pre-professional school advisor who provide advice and suggestions for strategizing your approach to applying and gaining admission to the graduate (PhD) or professional schools (MD, MBA, JD, MPP,…