POSITION AVAILABLE: Post-Doctoral Fellow for Teaching Assistant (TA) Development Programs, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Tech seeks a dynamic postdoctoral fellow to help design and implement initiatives related to Teaching Assistant (TA) pedagogical and professional development. CETL is an institute-wide Center that serves all disciplines, enhancing the teaching and learning standard of excellence through faculty development, assessment, and support. The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for the following initiatives: (1) conduct a needs assessment and develop, implement, and assess a pilot two-day TA Professional Development Program that will be offered before fall semester for new Biology TAs, many of whom will be TAs for inquiry-based laboratories; (2) redesign, co-facilitate, and assess a TA development course that Biology TAs now take concurrently with their first TA assignment with the goal of effectively integrating the course with the pilot TA Professional Development Program; and (3) adapt the Biology TA Professional Development Program and TA development course for other disciplines at Georgia Tech (e.g., Chemistry, Physics, etc.). As a member of the CETL team, the Fellow will also be involved in other new TA Development initiatives for disciplines across campus. The Fellow will be encouraged to contribute to collaborative efforts to communicate the TA Development Program model and disseminate findings through conferences and publications. The successful candidate will work with us for 18 months, starting February 1, 2012 (or as close to that time as possible) and continuing through July 2013. The fellow will be based in CETL and will collaborate closely with the Biology department, other academic and service departments on campus, CETL faculty and staff, and a team of summer TA Fellows (experienced TAs). Required Qualifications: Earned Ph.D. in science, preferably in Biology, a Life Science discipline, or Science Education (college level), experience as a TA for laboratory courses, and a demonstrated interest in teaching and learning. Must have excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to work both independently and in a team, and the ability to collaborate across different disciplines. Preferred qualifications include experience with some or all of the following: developing and implementing TA development programs and/or workshops at a research university, involvement in STEM education research, courses in pedagogy, experience with a Preparing Future Faculty or another Higher Education Teaching Certificate program. Experience with constructivist pedagogies a plus. Experience with design or development of web-based interactive training considered very beneficial. Salary range is 40 - 45K/year (depending on candidate's experience) with a generous benefits package (see www.ohr.gatech.edu). Please forward a letter of application that directly addresses your specific qualifications for the position, a CV, and a teaching philosophy statement along with names, titles, email addresses, and phone numbers for three references to: Dr. Lydia Soleil at [email protected]. Review of candidates will begin immediately and will proceed until the position is filled. The preferred start date is February 1, 2012. The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's top research universities and consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public universities in the United States. Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education. AN EQUAL EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/
