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Tips for Grads: Interpersonal Effectiveness While many think that teaching is a job confined to a classroom, it is in fact a skill that has many contexts. In the workplace, the lab, and, yes, the classroom, teaching others about new information, a new problem, or a new process involves cultivating positive relationships and a positive climate. David Gooblar of Pedagogy Unbound suggests three ways to enhance your teaching experience that are applicable to any context: - Lose your voice. Instead of offering the answer, allow your listeners the time and space to arrive at answers themselves.
- When you do talk, let yourself be human. Rather than creating a barrier between yourself and your teaching persona, enmesh the two and encourage your learners to do the same.
- Really listen. When creating space for discussion, allow it to be truly open-ended by avoiding leading discussion questions that you think have only one answer.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW-Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the nine facets of professional development, complete a self-assessment, and get a customized report and recommendations.
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Upcoming Professional Development Events
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| Creating an IDP encourages you to think about what you need to do next so that you achieve your goals. We will discuss how to define achievable goals, identify resources, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining your plans. Participants will begin to create a personalized plan that takes into account career interests and addresses the development of knowledge and skills. This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and Delta Program.
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Searching for a professional position needs to be approached like undertaking a very challenging project. Learn about the process, tools, steps that can lead to success with this critical project. It should be focused, organized, and disciplined - with weekly plans and accountability on your progress. Drawing from over 20 years helping thousands of professionals and executives with job searches, Donna Beestman will share tips on crafting your resume and other marketing documents, developing your verbal talking points, creating an effective online presence, expanding your professional network, and preparing for interviewing.
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Teaching is central to the professional development of many graduate students at UW-Madison. When you teach, you build skills that will be valuable whether you stay in academia or pursue careers beyond the tenure track. In this roundtable event, you'll learn about a new professional development framework that can help you identify and describe your transferable skills, hear various perspectives and examples of how teaching skills transfer to various career paths, and start to discover the many benefits of teaching.
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| Managing Grades in Canvas
Thursday, January 26 | 10:00 - 11:30 am
B1144B DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
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| Excel 2: Functions
Tuesday, January 24 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Python
Wednesday, January 25 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Photoshop 1
Thursday, January 26 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
HTML
Tuesday, January 31 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
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For more technology courses from Software Training for Students (STS) click here.
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Special Events & Conferences
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Preventing Sexual Violence at UW-Madison online training
Attention NEW spring semester graduate students: Please remember to complete the online training Preventing Sexual Violence at UW-Madison in Learn@UW by March 17. Additional information and instructions are available here.
Abstracts due Feb. 24 for 2017 WARF Discovery Challenge
UW-Madison graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from all departments and fields of study are invited to submit abstracts by 5 pm on Friday, February 24 to participate in the 2017 WARF Discovery Challenge, a two-part research competition. Part I: Discovery Challenge Research Symposium will take place on April 12th, and involves presenting a poster describing your existing work, identifying cross-disciplinary collaborators, and competing for one of four cash prizes totaling $2,000. Part II: Discovery Challenge Research Awards Competition will take place in Fall 2017. You can meet potential collaborators for the competition during the April 12th symposium.
Funding to Attend National Humanities Alliance Meeting in Washington, DC
The Graduate School will fund two UW-Madison graduate students to attend the National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, March 13-14, 2017. The NHA is an advocacy coalition dedicated to the advancement of humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs. The event gives participants the opportunity to learn about national humanities policy and develop advocacy and communication skills. This is a competitive selection process, with applications due Sunday, February 12. Application instructions are available here.
Register to be a Badger Volunteer before January 26
Badger Volunteers is a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations (schools, nonprofits, municipalities) to volunteer 1-4 hours each week at the same organization. The program is designed to foster meaningful and consistent connections between community partners and students over the course of an entire semester. Badger Volunteers provides logistical support, transportation, training and education sessions for student volunteers in the program. Registration for volunteer sites is on a first-come, first-served basis and closes on January 26. Learn more and register here.
Call for Proposals for Borghesi-Mellon Workshops due March 9
Support from Nancy and David Borghesi and the A. W. Mellon Foundation allows the Center for the Humanities to support 3-5 new interdisciplinary workshops in the humanities each year. Proposals should be developed by an interdisciplinary group of at least four individuals, with active student and faculty involvement in the planning process. Application Deadline: Thursday, March 9, 2017. Full application information here.
Call for Moderators for Undergraduate Symposium
The annual Undergraduate Symposium showcases undergraduate creativity, achievement, research, service-learning and community-based research from all areas of study at UW-Madison including the humanities, fine arts, biological sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. The Symposium is seeking moderators for the 2017 symposium, which will take place on Thursday, April 13 in Union South. Moderators are faculty, staff, and graduate students that assist as hosts and time monitors in a 90-minute session on the day of the event. For more information on moderating a symposium session you may email the coordinator at ugradsymposium@provost.wisc.edu or sign up online before Friday, March 24.
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Please note: Some graduate students may be ineligible to hold graduate assistantship appointments. Be sure to check with your graduate program coordinator about your eligibility before applying.
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The UW Sea Grant Institute is accepting applications from graduate students statewide for the National Sea Grant College Program's (NSGCP) 2018 Sea Grant Intern Program. The program provides a unique educational experience to students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. The program matches highly qualified graduate students with "hosts" in the legislative and executive branch of government located in the Washington, D.C. area, for a one year paid internship, which will being on February 1, 2018.
As part of its Mellon Fellowship program, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) offers a fellowship award to support original source dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences at the Preservation Research and Testing Division of the Preservation Directorate of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. CLIR seeks proposals from applicants whose dissertation projects will benefit from the opportunity to examine original sources using the entire array of new technologies and equipment available at the Library of Congress.
ACLS invites applications for the seventh competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. This year, the program will place up to 22 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year term staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Fellows receive a stipend of $67,500 per year, with individual health insurance and up to $3,000 to be used toward professional development activities over the course of the fellowship term.
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