#  Teaching and Diversity Statements: A Workshop for Postdocs on the Academic Job Market 

 



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 **October 19, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 01:30PM EDT 

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 **Science Center 418d**  



 

 



 

 Presented by Adam G. Beaver, Associate Director for Teaching and Learning at the [Derek Bok Center](http://bokcenter.harvard.edu/).

 Are you on or near the job market? Enthused or concerned about the prospect of writing a teaching philosophy statement? Wondering what, exactly, a “teaching philosophy” is, and how you get one? Many of you have had few opportunities to teach, and probably in courses, in modalities, and with assignments set by someone else. When you hit the job market, then, it’s natural to feel some anxiety about how to explain who you are as a teacher in a coherent and compelling way. Do you have enough experience? The right kind of experience? The answer, of course, is yes: yes, you do. The challenge is how to organize and communicate that experience in a way that will show a search committee not just what you have done, but also how much you’ve learned from it, and that you are likely you keep developing in the right direction as a colleague. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to learn about the features of effective teaching and diversity statements.

 Trained as a Renaissance historian, Adam was an assistant professor in the [History Department](https://history.princeton.edu/) at [Princeton University](https://scholar.harvard.edu/abeaver/abeaver/www.princeton.edu). At the Bok Center, Adam is interested in thinking with teachers about the best way to blend different kinds of techniques and exercises into a bespoke style that works for each individual instructor and course. Adam Beaver works primarily with faculty and graduate students in the [humanities](http://artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/), [social sciences](http://socialscience.fas.harvard.edu/), and [Gen Ed](http://generaleducation.fas.harvard.edu/).

 Sponsored by the FAS Office of Postdoctoral Affairs



 

 



 

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