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The Experience of Being in Graduate School: An Exploration
Anderson, Melissa S.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
From the Publisher
There is much at stake in the graduate enterprise. Here students are prepared to become leaders, professionals, researchers, and scholars who will be responsible for the advancement of our knowledge and well-being. But what of the students themselves? What do they go through in graduate school? What is the graduate experience like? This volume of New Directions for Higher Education addresses the graduate experience from the...
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Supervising the PhD: A Guide to Success
Delamont, Sara, Paul Atkinson, and Odette Parry
Open University Press, Philadelphia, PA
1997
From the Publisher
This guide to supervising doctoral research is a practical handbook for both the novice and the experienced higher degree supervisor. It looks at how to get students to produce good PhD theses on time, and how to prevent failed theses.
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Teaching American Students: A Guide for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants
Sarkisian, Ellen
Harvard, Derok Bok Center, Cambridge, MA
1997
From the Publisher
Many faculty and graduate students from other countries expect language difficulties when they teach, but are unprepared for other surprises: different cultures make different assumptions about the academic background of college students, how students learn, the appropriate roles of teachers and students, and even the fundamental purpose of a college education.
The third edition of Teaching American Students explains...
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The Next Generation: Preparing Graduate Students for the Professional Responsibilities of College Teachers
Slevin, James F.
Association of American Colleges
1992
From the Publisher
This monograph presents results and recommendations from a project designed as a collaborative effort to prepare graduate students in the humanities for careers as scholar-teachers within institutions committed to liberal education. The project's two principle activities are discussed under the following headings: (1) Encountering Campus Cultures: Discovering the Responsibilities of College Teachers; and (2) Seminars: Reflecting...
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"Socializing Future Faculty to the Values of Undergraduate Education"
Gaff, Jerry G., and Leo M. Lambert
Change July/Aug (1996): 38-45
1996
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"The Faculty Members of the Future: How Are They Being Shaped?"
Wheeler, Barbara G.
Christian Century (Feb 4-11, 1998): 106-149
1998
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Working Effectively with Graduate Assistants
Nyquist, Jody D. and Donald H. Wulff
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
1996
From the Publisher
While graduate assistants are valued as labour savers, they are also a precious resource whose preprofessional training needs careful design. Written by two leading authorities in the field of instructional development, this indispensable guide details the skills necessary for academics dealing with graduate assistants. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of assistant preparation and assessment, and a chapter...
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First Day to Final Grade
Curzan, Anne and Lisa Damour
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI
2000
From the Publisher
Many universities are concerned about improving the pedagogy used by their graduate students in the classroom. Yet few universities provide adequate training or support. As a result, most new graduate student teachers feel overwhelmed by the demands of being both a teacher and a student.
Written from the perspective of both professors who have been in the classroom for many years and inexperienced teachers of the "I...
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"Graduate Schools Should Require Internships For Teaching"
Burke, Joseph C.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 October 2001
2001
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Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty
Wulff, Donald H, Ann E. Austin & Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2004
From the Publisher
It has been estimated that in the next ten years, about half of the current higher education faculty will retire. How can we best prepare the next generation of faculty members to fill this tremendous gap in our educational system?
Paths to the Professoriate offers all those involved in higher education everyone from administrators to scholars to graduate students a much-needed resource that brings together major research,...
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"African Students in Theological Doctoral Programs in Christian Institutions of Higher Education"
Starcher, Richard L.
Christian Higher Education 3, no. 3 (2004): 207-222
2004
From the Publisher
Over the years, thousands of students have left Africa to pursue theological doctorates in Christian institutions of higher learning around the world. The study reported in this paper endeavored to understand their experiences and articulate their needs and aspirations. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 23 African students and were analyzed using grounded theory procedures. The emerging profile revealed...
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The Student Assessment Handbook
Morgan, Chris, Lee Dunn, Sharon Parry and Meg O'Reilly
RoutledgeFalmer, London, UK
2004
From the Publisher
Aimed primarily at higher education professionals, this book is a comprehensive guide to assessment issues, particularly for those professionals who are coming to terms with the range of new pressures on their traditional teaching practices. Agents of change such as increased use of IT, flexible assessment methods and quality assurance all converge on the area of assessment, making new demands of assessors.
Outlining...
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The Professional Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants
Marincovich, Michele, Jack Prostko, Frederic Stout
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
1998
From the Publisher
As both the need for and the expectations of teaching assistants in higher education rise, institutions must ensure that graduate TAs provide effective instruction. This comprehensive TA training handbook is an essential resource for those who prepare graduate TAs for their responsibilities in the classroom and for their overall professional development. Written by experts in the field of TA development, this book provides a...
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The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School
Isaac, Alicia
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
1998
From the Publisher
What does it take to get into and through graduate school? What special challenges, opportunities, and issues face an African American graduate student? The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School offers a practical roadmap to help African American students get the most out of their graduate school experience. The book covers a number of issues, including creating a program of study, financial aid, and...
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Socialization of Graduate and Professional Students in Higher Education: A Perilous Passage?
Weidman, John C., Twale, Darla J., Stein, Elizabeth Leahy
ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, New York, NY
2001
From the Publisher
This report on the process of graduate and professional student socialization provides information that can be of use to graduate program faculty and administrators, professional associations, state legislatures, and professional licensing bodies charged with assuring clients that well qualified professional practitioners are being prepared in the nation's universities. It addresses implications of issues raised in current literature...
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So You Want to Be a Professor? A Handbook for Graduate Students
Vesilind, P. Aarne
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
2000
From the Publisher
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 how to succeed. If so, this book is written for you. So You Want To Be a Professor begins with a discussion of jobs in academia and how to find them....
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"Co-Teaching - Training Professionals To Teach"
Eddy, Pamela
Tomorrow's Professor #739, http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/5739.html
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Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education: Preparing Stewards of the Discipline Carnegie Essays on the Doctorate
Golde, Chris M., George E. Walker, and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2006
From the Publisher
The development of students as stewards of the discipline should be the purpose of doctoral education. A steward is a scholar in the fullest sense of the term someone who can imaginatively generate new knowledge, critically conserve valuable and useful ideas, and responsibly transform those understandings through writing, teaching, and application. Stewardship also has an ethical and moral dimension; it is a role that transcends...
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The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century
Walker, George E., Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, Pat Hutchings
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they can be made more powerful by relying on principles of progressive development, integration, and collaboration. They challenge the...
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Teaching Your First College Class: A Practical Guide for New Faculty and Graduate Student Instructors
Lieberg, Carolyn
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
No other teaching experience will feel quite like the first time an instructor walks into a classroom to face a class of students.
This book is a wise and friendly guide for new faculty and graduate student instructors who are about to teach for the first time.
It provides an introduction to the theory of teaching; describes proven strategies and activities for engaging students in their learning; and offers advice...
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Strategies for Teaching Assistant and International Teaching Assistant Development: Beyond Micro Teaching
Ross, Catherine, and Jane Dunphy
Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, San Francisco
2007
From the Publisher
Written for anyone who works with graduate students to support their teaching efforts in American research universities, this book draws on the extensive experience of professional educators who represent a variety of programs throughout the United States. They understand the common constraints of many TA development classes, workshops, and programs, as well as the need for motivating and sophisticated techniques that are,...
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