Your best bet for experience is to try to pick up an Adjunct position at a
local 2 year college. It will give you practical undergraduate level
experience, a sound addition to your resume, and the chance to do serious
classroom teaching. Most 2 year schools welcome doctoral students as
adjuncts and while the pay isn't great, it's better then you would earn
substitute teaching, and the hours are a lot better.
Hope it helps,
Rick
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Rick Adams
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Department of Social Sciences
Jackson Community College, Jackson, MI
"... and the only measure of your worth and your deeds
will be the love you leave behind when you're gone."
Fred Small, J.D., "Everything Possible"
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> Subject: Teaching in Grad School?
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>
> Hello,
>
> I will be entering a clinical Psy.D. program this fall 2000 straight from
> earning my bachelors degree in psychology. The program that I will be
> attending does not offer teaching assistantships, because it is a small
> school that really takes pride in its faculty being teachers. I
> would like to
> keep my options open as far as being able to teach on the
> undergraduate level
> after earning my doctorate (even though I am primarily interested
> in private
> practice now and this is what my program emphasizes), but I'm not
> sure how to
> accomplish this if I can't get graduate teaching experience. I do have
> extensive undergraduate experience in teaching psychology 101 for
> 50 minute
> periods once every week during my last semester. My faculty mentor and my
> students gave me rave reviews.
>
> My question is...what options do I have that will keep the
> teaching option
> open to me (if any)? Would substitute teaching in a high school have any
> positive impact on teaching on the undergrad level after earning my
> doctorate? Is it idealistic to think that my undergraduate
> institution may
> offer me a summer teaching position for an introductory course
> while I'm in
> graduate school so that I can get some more experience? (There
> are several
> faculty in my undergraduate department who have clinical Psy.D.s
> and I have
> had masters' psychology students at my undergraduate university teaching
> summer courses before). I would appreciate any advice or suggestions that
> anyone may have for my situation.
>
> Thank you,
> Jessica Percodani
>
