Planning Your Career
There’s never been a better time to be a science educator. There are myriad paths you can explore to design a career that aligns best with your interests and career goals. This section highlights various considerations and opportunities to help
you chart your own unique path to success.
NEW: Life in Academia
Teaching students and a flexible schedule help make academia rewarding.How to Establish Successful Physiology Education Research Collaborations
Tips originated from the Center for Physiology Education Research Working Group. Educators need collaborators for many different reasons, but successful collaborations in publishing are of specific importance. Learn more about how to find and build successful collaborations.
The Physics of an Academic Career
Insights on how to attain success in an academic setting and essential skills needed to successfully navigate the system.Career Gateway
What Makes a Person Qualified to Teach Physiology?
Tips for convincing an accreditation committee that you've got teaching cred.
Navigating the Promotion and Tenure Landscape
Navigating promotion and tenure requires understanding what they are, knowing the
rules of the P & T game and creating a strategy to achieve promotion and tenure.
Constructive Guidance and Mentoring with Compassion
In academia you are evaluated all the time. This talk offers guidance for receiving,
responding to and providing evaluations.
Using Teaching Evaluations to Enhance Your Career Trajectory I & II
Factors
to consider in reviewing teaching evaluations to help understand and accept the evaluations and use insights to shape your teaching.
Data Collection and Presentation as Vital Steps Along the Road to Promotion
Approach promotion like a research project. Talk highlights how to develop a plan to ensure you are qualified for promotion and prepared to achieve your goals.Educational Leadership: Benefits of Stepping Outside the Classroom
Excelling in leadership opportunities at your institution and beyond can have a profound effect on your career advancement. The author highlights considerations for pursuing leadership opportunities outside of the classroom.Other Resources to Discover
- Step up to leadership for mid-career growth, Nature, June 2019
- Why academic administration was the right choice for me, Nature, June 2021
- The DEI Pathway to Promotion, Inside Higher Ed, May 2021
- Scientific Presenting: Using Evidence-Based Classroom Practices to Deliver Effective Conference Presentations, CBE - Life Science, March 2018
Teaching and Learning Research
Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) aims to improve teaching and learning by asking meaningful questions about student learning and about the teaching activities designed to facilitate student learning.
A Difficult Journey: Transitioning from STEM to SoTL
This essay unearths difficulties experienced by scholars trained in the STEM disciplines when transitioning into the research context that is SoTL.How Experienced SoTL Researchers Develop the Credibility of Their Work
Teaching and learning research in higher education is still relatively novel in many academic contexts compared to the mainstay of disciplinary research.Writing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Articles for Peer-Reviewed Journals
Authors pose three related sets of overarching questions for consideration when writing about teaching and learning for peer-reviewed journals.Other Resources to Discover
- A Difficult Journey: Transitioning from STEM to SoTL, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, January 2012
- How Experienced SoTL Researchers Develop the Credibility of Their Work, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, March 2017
- Writing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Articles for Peer-Reviewed Journals, Teaching & Learning Inquiry September, 2019
