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Reflection on the Job Market

9/5/2019

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​​Back in April, we (Karly and Jen) announced that we had jobs. Yay! Now, we’re in the swing of our first semester as full-time faculty. It’s an exciting but very busy time. At this point, we thought it would be beneficial to share some of our experiences about being on the academic job market because those jobs didn’t just appear out of thin air. We put hours of work into getting them that ultimately paid off.  

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Reflection on Fall 2018: Part 2

12/12/2018

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​The fall 2018 semester is quickly coming to a close, and all of us at TNP team want to take a moment to reflect on it.
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Earlier this semester we set some lofty goals for ourselves. If you don’t remember, each of TNP members outlined three goals for the upcoming academic year in a series of posts back in August. The goals revolved around research and writing, teaching, professional development, and productivity.  ​

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A letter...

9/6/2018

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September 6, 2018
 
To my peers on the job market,
 
        As part of our series on the Job Market last week, I was tasked to write a letter to you as a sort of wrap-up post. I’ve been putting it off because I have struggled with what to write. It’s been three years since my own experience on the job market (psychology, teaching colleges). When I think back on that experience, there are two things that stick out to me:

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Discussing Student Success in the First Week

8/22/2018

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​The first week is a difficult one for many reasons. It is especially difficult on my campus because students can add/drop until the end of the week…great for students, but difficult for professors. Every semester I end up with three or four new students at the beginning of the second week who are starting the semester behind. Each semester, I struggle with what to do. Mostly I question whether I should start covering content that first week and hope that the students who come in late are able to make it up without getting further behind. Last academic year, I pushed back the content coverage into the second week and now spend the first couple of days orienting students to my teaching style, expectations, and the course. Yes, I said DAYS, sometimes the entire first week. I could write a lot discussing the things I do and why but I want to focus on a conversation I have with students about student success.

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Addressing the "Why is this class important?" on the first day of class

8/21/2018

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​When I first started teaching as a graduate student, I was assigned courses that students notoriously dreaded. First, I taught a writing lab for our research methods course, where students learned about APA formatting and wrote a research paper. After that, I taught Statistical Methods. In both courses, students routinely complained that the skills taught in these courses didn’t apply to them. They didn’t want to be researchers that conducted experiments, ran data analyses, and then wrote up findings in a manuscript. So why should they take these classes seriously?

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New Year, New Goals: Productivity

8/11/2018

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Here at The Novice Professor (and everywhere else) academics are heading into a new school year. As "this" year comes to a close we are reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the upcoming year. To inspire you, and help hold ourselves accountable, we are sharing our goals with you in this week's posts, spanning several topics of academic life. 

We at The Novice Professor are still working on developing habits that will increase our Productivity and tweaking our work-life balance. Three of us share our goals in this area.


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New Year, New Goals: Teaching

8/9/2018

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​Here at The Novice Professor (and everywhere else) academics are heading into a new school year. As "this" year comes to a close we are reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the upcoming year. To inspire you, and help hold ourselves accountable, we are sharing our goals with you in this week's posts, spanning several topics of academic life. 


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New Year, New Goals: Research & Writing

8/8/2018

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Here at The Novice Professor (and everywhere else) academics are heading into a new school year. As "this" year comes to a close we are reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the upcoming year. To inspire you, and help hold ourselves accountable, we are sharing our goals with you in this week's posts, spanning several topics of academic life. 


​Research and Writing
 are important aspects of academic life, no matter your institution or position as evidenced by all four of us having goals in this area. 



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