merchimerch | (no subject)

Another job posting came up through a listserv that I'm on. I'm going to wait a while before submitting an application. Once again, they are looking for teaching experience. I'm not sure that TAing cuts it, and beyond that I have no teaching expereince. I am really worried about my job prospects without any teaching experience. I haven't been able to get any adjuncts while in grad school because I've been out of the country too much. I applied for summer school teaching this year and a teaching fellowship with OID and was rejected for both. I can understand why, I've only got 5 quarters of TAing as opposed to the 6 they wanted for the fellowship. And the department has lots of other more senior ABD/recent Ph.Ds who are jobless and they should get the summer school teaching gigs. Still, I'm terrified that I don't have enough experience to actually get a job when all is said and done. I'm not sure what to do. I'll pimp out my resumes wherever I end up living next year to try to get a class or two under my belt. Any ideas from the peanut gallery?

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You could try getting a little experience as a lecturer at one of the less snooty schools. A lot of the smaller state schools are very much focused on teaching, and that might be a good experience to suppliment your research. After a year or two of that you probably would have enough teaching experience to apply where you wanted to (supposing they are hiring in your field).

Are you just looking at teaching at colleges, or are prep schools a consideration? I don't think it'd be as difficult to get into, you usually get to live there as part of the deal, and they typically have decent bennies.