If you don't have enough teaching experience, what kind of job you should try to find to increase the teaching experience. Now many jobs have set requirements for teaching experience. It seems contradiction, Without appropriate job we can't increase the teaching experience,but without enough teaching experience we can't find jobs. Thanks for advice!
which job to find to increase teaching experience
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1This will depend heavily on where you are in your education/career, presumably what country you are in, what level you're interested in teaching, and probably lots of other things. If you want helpful advice, you will probably have to provide a lot more context. For example, in the U.S., colleges and universities have student teaching requirements as part of an education degree in any area for primary and secondary schools. Graduate schools in the U.S. usually offer teaching assistantships. – 2011-01-01
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0Hi, I am in fact the OP. I am a graduate student in US, but I have only 1 year and a half teaching experience as teaching assistant, and I will graduate. So... – 2011-01-01
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1It is my impression that for post-doctoral positions it is enough to have some experience as a teaching assistant, and that post-docs (at least in the U.S.) are a great way to get more teaching experience to prepare for permanent positions. But I am no expert. Some smaller schools will hire people without postdoctoral experience if there is evidence of excellent teaching from a teaching assistanceship, but only having a year and a half might make this difficult. – 2011-01-01
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0Yes, the latter part of your answer is what I am concerned with. – 2011-01-01
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1If you are looking for jobs at schools primarily focused on teaching, you may want to look into teaching postdocs, like the one at the U of Arizona. Also, temporary instructor/lecturer positions do not usually have as strict requirements (because they are not making as much of a commitment), and these are a way to build teaching experience. (I'm commenting instead of answering partly because I am not speaking from real experience.) – 2011-01-01
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0Question has been wiki hammer'd. – 2011-01-02