Materials Shared or Developed in GFDA Workshops
Links to handouts, lecture notes, and PowerPoints that were
presented at the workshops.
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Teaching
and Learning: Tips, Techniques, and Ideas
Materials, links and resources to help you strengthen your teaching and
learning skills |
Graduate
Issues and Preparing for an Academic Career
Information about dissertation proposals, dissertation funding, and
things you can do while in graduate school to prepare for an academic
career |
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Writing and Publishing
This section provides information about available fellowships, grants,
resources to improve your grant writing skills; as well as information
and resources for writing and publishing your work
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Getting
A Job
Resources for beginning the job hunt and surviving the application
process, as well as tips and resources for interviewing
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Attending
Conferences
You’ve got to do it, so do it well: tips for submitting
abstracts, developing conference presentations, obtaining funding, etc. |
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Getting Started in an
Academic Career
Tools and Techniques for managing your time,
self-mentoring, and other critical skills you will need in your first
several years
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Preparing for
Promotion and Tenure
This
section attempts to demystify the promotion and tenure process.
Included
are typical timeline and tasks, information about developing a teaching
portfolio,
and suggestions for seeking out letter of references
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Professional Societies, Journals, and ListServs
Listings, links, and resources |
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Instructional
Materials
Course planning, sample syllabi, lesson plans
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Teaching and Learning Centers and Opportunities
websites and contact information
for national and international centers, institutes, grants and
fellowships
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Life-Long
Professional Development
This section is about the long-term: how will you
continue to fine-tune your existing talents and develop new skills
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General References for
Learning and Teaching in Geography In Higher Education
Compilation of websites and other resources for
teaching geography in higher education |
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Professional Ethics
"…
guidance to professors in such matters as their
utterances as citizens, the exercise of their responsibilities to
students
and colleagues, and their conduct when resigning from an institution or
when
undertaking sponsored research." The American Association of University
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