Program
Participant workspace (limited access)
Pre-workshop
Please complete the pre-workshop survey, watch the welcome video, complete the mapping your career worksheet, and locate an object that tells something about you for the icebreaker. More details are in participant workspace. Total time expected: less than 1 hour.
Monday: Your academic career goals
(Program starts at 8am PT / 9am MT / 10am CT / 11am ET; times below are represented as hour:minute to standardize among time zones)
0:00 Welcome, introductions (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 12.1MB Jul13 20), and ice breaker
0:35 Mapping your career at different types of institutions
Mapping Your Career worksheet 2020.docx (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 14kB Jul12 20)
Mapping Your Career at Different Institution Types (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 328kB Jul13 20)
- Reflection on pre-workshop career mapping activity
- Institution Types
- Panelist experiences
- SWOT
- Q & A
1:35 Break
1:45 What might your academic career trajectory include? Thoughts on some excellent but lesser-known pathways
- Brainstorm: What stepping-stone jobs are available?
- Advantages and disadvantages of different stepping stones PDF (Acrobat (PDF) 82kB Jul13 20)
2:15 Career management
- Balancing your career with the rest of your life (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 339kB Jul9 20)
- Managing time to build your skill set
- Career Task Planning Grid (Acrobat (PDF) 50kB Jul13 20)
- Multicontext Resources
2:45 Summary of the day and Monday road check
3:00 Adjourn
Optional professional networking before afternoon sessions begin
Suggested afternoon sessions:
- Navigating and Contributing to Teach the Earth
- Strategies for Incorporating Sustainability Throughout your Earth Science Course
- Imposter Syndrome
Tuesday: Building your research and teaching skills
(Program starts at 8am PT / 9am MT / 10am CT / 11am ET; times below are represented as hour:minute to standardize among time zones)
0:00 Introduction to the day (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 8.9MB Jul15 20)
0:05 Pathways to becoming an effective teacher
- Pathways to Becoming an Effective Teacher (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1.5MB Jul14 20)
0:35 Discussion groups (pick 2 breakouts and rename yourself in Zoom at the requested time by adding the appropriate number out front of your name; e.g. "4-Sarah")
- 1 - Sue: Teaching at an minority-serving institution (MSI)
- 2 - Lisa: Teaching at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI)
- 3 - Lynsey: Teaching at a community college (2YC)
- 4 - Catherine: Inclusive teaching discussion - slides (Acrobat (PDF) 3.1MB Jul14 20)
- 5 - Gary: Teaching at a large university (R1)
1:35 Break
1:45 Panel Discussion: Moving your research forward
- PowerPoint slides: moving_your_research_forward_2020.pptx (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 481kB Jul13 20)
2:15 Moving your research forward discussion groups (pick 1 breakout and rename yourself in Zoom by adding the appropriate number out front of your name; e.g. "4-Sarah"):
- 1 - Sue: Research at a minority-serving institution (MSI)
- 2 - Lisa: Research at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI)
- 3 - Lynsey: Research at a community college (2YC)
- 4 - Catherine: Research as a non-tenure-track faculty member
- 5 - Gary: Research at a large university (R1)
2:45 Introduction to the elevator pitch elevatorpitches.pptx (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 72kB Jul14 20) and Tuesday road check
3:00 Adjourn
Optional professional networking before afternoon sessions begin
Suggested afternoon sessions:
- Plenary talk by Karletta Chief: Training STEM graduate students to work in Indigenous Communities to co-solve FEWS challenges
- Any of the roundtable discussions
Wednesday: Getting that academic position
(Program starts at 8am PT / 9am MT / 10am CT / 11am ET; times below are represented as hour:minute to standardize among time zones)
0:00 Introduction to the day (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 8.9MB Jul15 20)
0:05 Elevator pitches: small group practice and debrief elevatorpitchesWed.pptx (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 77kB Jul15 20)
0:35 Application process
- Overview of differences and commonalities by job type
- Slide set: applications_interview_slides - 2020.pptx (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 4.1MB Jul9 20)
- Interviewing
1:05 Discussion of application process by job type -- Rename yourself in Zoom by adding the appropriate number out front of your name; e.g. "4-Sarah":
- 1 - Sue: Minority-serving institution faculty (MSI)
- 2 - Lisa: Primarily undergraduate institution faculty (PUI)
- 3 - Lynsey: Community college faculty (2YC)
- 4 - Catherine: Non-tenure-track faculty member
- 5 - Gary: Large university faculty (R1)
1:35 Break
1:45 Illegal questions and negotiations
- Slide set (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 385kB Jul15 20)
2:30 How to form community
2:45 Wrap-up and workshop evaluation
3:00 Adjourn
Optional professional networking before afternoon sessions begin including approx. 3:05-3:35 session with recent PAC workshop alumnae Alyssa Abbey-Rescheduled to 16 and 22 July 2020. See email for details!
Suggested afternoon sessions:
Thursday and Friday Suggestions
Morning workshops:
- Course Design: Using effective lesson design strategies to enhance the use of active learning
- Teaching for a Changing World: Water resources and melting ice
Plenary talk:
Mini workshops:
- Broadening participation in the geosciences through undergraduate on-ramps: Lessons learned in the SAGE 2YC Project
- Facilitating Student Centered Community Action Projects
- Eos in the Classroom: Building Educational Resources with Science News
Round table discussions: