DCAL's LCFF - Active Learning: what works in the classroom
Date:
3/12/2018
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
DCAL
Categories:
DCAL
https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/calendar/gradstudies/?cid=221&t=d&d=0000-00-00&cal%5B%5D=221

In order to cultivate a community focused on teaching and learning amongst graduate students and postdocs, DCAL has established a Learning Community for Future Faculty (LCFF). The focus of this group is to share the rewards and challenges of college teaching, while digging a bit deeper into best practices and techniques for teaching. The LCFF meets monthly on the 2nd Monday of the month.


Beyond the Professoriate #2 DEMYSTIFYING JOBS ADS TO CREATE EFFECTIVE APPLICATION MATERIALS.
Date:
3/15/2018
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
37 Dewey Field Rd, Instructional Center (1st floor)
Campus:
Graduate Studies
https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/calendar/gradstudies/?cid=221&t=d&d=0000-00-00&cal%5B%5D=221




Series Description: The non-professoriate job market is more than just submitting the same cover letter and CV or resume as application and hoping and waiting for offers come rolling in. In fact, that rarely actually works. A successful job search is a careful, deliberate, highly interactive set of steps that require close examination of posted opportunities, industry research, examination and articulation of your experiences and skill acquisition to date, understanding of your personal and professional goals and motivations, development of key professional partnerships and advocates and the ability to concisely convey your interests in both application materials and interview sessions. This interactive series will help you prepare both your knowledge of and materials for the job search process especially beyond the professoriate.

Each of the workshops build on the ones offered earlier in the series, so it is helpful if you attend all the workshops.



#2 DEMYSTIFYING JOBS ADS TO CREATE EFFECTIVE APPLICATION MATERIALS.
Workshop Description: Decoding a job advertisement is like getting the answers to the test before exam day! If you can read and understand the key elements that an employer seeks then you have a better chance of creating an application packet that speaks directly to the hiring manager. By the end of this session, you will be better able to align your cover letter and resume to the content, quickly and concisely convey interest and job fit. This interactive workshop will include basic instructions on how to craft your cover letter and resume.



More resume building instruction will be offered in workshop #3.

60 minutes: Speaker, Victoria Blodgett, Assistant Dean for Postdoctoral Affairs

Spring Employer Connections Fair
April 3, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Hopkins Center
Meet 50+ EMPLOYERS from a wide variety of fields: Appian, Beacon Group, Enernoc, Inc., Eversource Energy, TraceLink, U.S. Green Building Council and more! Click here http://sites.dartmouth.edu/cpd/files/2018/03/Spring2018FairDirectory.pdf for full list of employers.


We look forward to working with you this term!
-CPD Team

Ethics Facilitator Training, 2018

The School of Graduate and Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth developed an institution-wide program of training in the basics of professional ethics for first year graduate students. The Graduate Ethics Program has three main components: an opening session during orientation, four small group discussions on focal topics to be taken fall term of the first year of graduate school, and an online ethics survey. For students involved in animal and/or human research, there is also a winter seminar series in January that covers the ethics of using human and animal subjects in research, intellectual property rights (including patents), and conflict of interest.

The four fall ethics meetings are run in small groups facilitated by a faculty, postdoc, or senior graduate student. To prepare facilitators to lead these classes, Allan Gulledge, Associate professor of Molecular & Systems Biology, offers a four-part ethics training course for future facilitators focusing on content and delivery of the relevant ethics topics. Graduate students, postdocs, administrators, and faculty who attend the sessions will gain skills in case-style teaching methods and develop a framework for thinking about ethical issues that occur in the course of science research. Those who attend the training sessions will then facilitate their own small group workshops for first year students in the fall of 2018. Trainers will receive $50 per facilitated session this fall.

If you are interested in the Training for Trainers course, please sign-up at https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/4044638 and email Kerry Landers a brief statement of interest in teaching ethics and a copy of your cv/resume for consideration to be selected by April 9. Trainers are expected to attend all the workshops listed below.

The facilitator training sessions will occur on the following dates in Vail 513:

Professionalism, Monday, April 23, 2-4 pm

Mentoring, Monday, April 30, 2-4 pm

Authorship/Peer Review, Monday, May 7 , 2-4 pm

Data Collection, Monday, May 14, 2-4 pm

Get Ready for the Graduate Student Poster Session Sign-up
Sign-up to Present a Poster at the Dartmouth Graduate Student Poster Session: Link below, but will not be active until Friday, March 16 @ 8:30 am.

https://dartmouth.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8u0cmty6IByXeYZ

The poster session is scheduled for Wednesday, April 4, 5-7:30 pm in Alumni Hall. Presenters must be able to attend the full session.



(Since there are limited spaces, now is the time to check with your advisor to see if s/he would like you to present. FYI… in the past, advisors have asked me why their students are not presenting.)

The poster session, scheduled for Wednesday, April 4, 5-7:30 pm in Alumni Hall is being organized as part of Graduate Student Appreciation Week and will display posters by Dartmouth graduate students. The poster session is to display to other graduate students/postdocs, undergraduate students, faculty, and administrators the research and scholarly activity currently underway at Dartmouth.

Prizes of $200 will be awarded for the top three posters.

Posters will be judged on clarity of visual presentation, as well as on how well the poster presenter can talk (briefly, 3 minutes!) about his/her work in terms understandable by a non-specialist (though the poster itself may be highly technical). In addition, only one presenter per poster.

**** Poster Size****
We encourage you to use the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies Logo on your posters.
FYI...
Your poster should be no larger than 3 feet wide by 4 feet long. If for some reason your poster is larger, then you will be responsible for making sure it hangs on the allotted space.

Please note:
Only posters will be allowed for the presentation of your work i.e. that means no use of computers or other technical equipment. Additionally, only one person can present each poster.