Timeline for Reference letters for teaching positions
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| Jul 10, 2011 at 18:24 | comment | added | Amit Kumar Gupta | @Kevin, thanks, that sounds like a great suggestion! | |
| Jul 10, 2011 at 13:50 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Jul 9, 2011 at 19:37 | comment | added | Kevin O'Bryant | If you only have one, it should be from someone who would have suffered paperwork if a student had complained about you, and it should also be from somebody who has attended one of your classes, and it should also be from somebody who cares deeply about teaching. If there isn't somebody fitting all of that, you should create such a person. It's fair game to ask someone to attend a class and give you feedback, with the hidden agenda of later asking this person to write a letter. | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 18:44 | comment | added | Suvrit | "students not qualified to judge" is half-true, because after all, if they did not end up learning from the course, it is at least 50% a problem on the teacher's part. But otherwise, I agree with whatever else you have said above. | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 17:56 | comment | added | Amit Kumar Gupta | Thanks for your response! While you're right, students aren't qualified to judge my teaching skills, I doubt if the professors for whom I've TA'd would be qualified to do this either, simply because they have no experience of my teaching, how I deal with problem students, etc. Could a reference letter from a fellow TA/PhD student be appropriate? | |
| Jul 9, 2011 at 4:00 | history | answered | Kevin O'Bryant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |