Program

Monday: Your academic career goals

8:30 Welcome, introductions, and ice breaker

9:05 Mapping your career at different types of institutions

• Reflection on pre-workshop career mapping activity (Mapping Your Career Reflection handout)
• Institution Types
• Panelist experiences
• SWOT
• Q & A

10:05 Break

10:15 What might your academic career trajectory include?

• Exploring stepping stone and alternate career pathways

10:45 Career Management (& planning next steps)

• Individual Development Plan
• Balancing your career with the rest of your life
• Managing time to build your skill set
• Reflecting on your goals, assessing your skill set, and planning next steps

11:15 Introduction to the elevator pitch (Elevator Pitch) and Monday Roadcheck

11:30 Adjourn

Optional lunchtime discussion groups

Suggested afternoon sessions:

• From Confusion to Confidence: Teaching students to read geoscience (afternoon mini-workshop)
• Listening to Earth's Secrets: What earthquakes reveal (afternoon mini-workshop)
• Oral session (Contributed talks)

Tuesday: Getting that academic position

8:30 Introduction to the day

8:35 Elevator pitches: small group practice and debrief

9:05 Application process

• Overview of differences and commonalities by job type
• Interviewing - advice from recent alumni of this workshop

9:35 Discussion of application process by job type -- Break-out discussion groups

• Resources: GROW GeoCareers, GeoGradApp, Communities in Geosciences

10:05 Break

10:15 Awkward questions and negotiations

10:45 Discussion about negations and interviews - Break-out discussion groups

11:15 Summary of the day and Tuesday Road Check

11:30 Adjourn

Suggested afternoon sessions:

• Share-a-thon
• Poster session

Wednesday: Building your research and teaching skills

8:30 Introduction to the day

8:35 Pathways to Becoming an Effective Teacher

• Example job descriptions

9:05 Pathways to becoming an effective teacher discussion groups (two rounds of break-outs)

10:05 Break

10:15 Moving your research forward - Building your research niche and being flexible in the research environment

• Undergraduate Research Experiences from STEM Students: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Service-Learning in Undergraduate Geosciences: Proceedings of a Workshop

10:45 Moving your research forward discussion groups (select one room to join)

11:15 Summary of the day and Wednesday Roadcheck

• Sign up for Thursday material review sessions and breakout discussions
• Upload materials for Thursday review. **Make sure you upload each statement to the corresponding folder and label it with your LastName_FirstName_StatementType.pdf so it is easily identifiable**
• If you know of links you would like to share with the whole group, please add them to the Shared Resources document. You can also upload resources to this folder.

11:30 Adjourn

Suggested afternoon sessions:

• Cultivating Growth: Alternative grading strategies speed dating (afternoon mini-workshop)
• Teaching Climate Data Through Art and Science (afternoon mini-workshop)
• Oral session (Contributed talks)

Thursday: Application Material Review and Topical Discussion Groups

8:30 Introduction to the Day

8:50 Break-out #1

9:30 Break-out #2

10:05 Break

10:15 Break-out #3

10:55 Wrap-up

11:15 End of Workshop Evaluation

11:30 Adjourn

Suggested afternoon sessions:

• Identity as a tool: Empowering students to bring their whole selves to the field (afternoon mini-workshop)
• Oral session (Contributed talks)