Teaching Experience?

[terpskins10]

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Hi all,

I have a couple questions about teaching experience. First, would being a TA for a lower level class in Psychology or Sociology be useful for trying to gain admission to a Clinical PhD program? Furthermore, when writing a PS, would it hurt me to mention the fact that after grad school (hopefully) I'm more interesting in teaching (college/university level) than research?

Thanks.

 

[erg923]

Hi all,

I have a couple questions about teaching experience. First, would being a TA for a lower level class in Psychology or Sociology be useful for trying to gain admission to a Clinical PhD program? Furthermore, when writing a PS, would it hurt me to mention the fact that after grad school (hopefully) I'm more interesting in teaching (college/university level) than research?

Thanks.

It certainly will not hurt, but its not gonna do much by itelf to get you in. It just presents a well rounded picture assuming you have the other more important qualifications (ie., GPA, GREs, and good research).

If you are applying to Ph.D. programs, I would NOT mention that you are primarily interested in teaching.

 

[KillerDiller]

You can say that you are interested in teaching as opposed to practicing or that you are very interested in teaching in general, but I would shy away from saying you prefer teaching to research.

 

[biogirl215]

Don't college professors (who want to be above the poverty line and have health insurance and all that) generally HAVE to like research somewhat and have strong research CV's? Even LACs like psychology professors to be very involved in research so that they can take on undergraduates in their labs.

 

[PsyDr]

poverty level professors?! LOL

your average community college pays around 2500 per course per semester. in your spare time you could do this and pick up an extra 7500 a year. teach a whopping 3 courses a semester? 22500. not even close to the poverty level. i can't think how anyone could be so lazy as to only do that. that's only 18 hrs of work a week. see 5 therapy patients a week, assuming a 35% overhead? that's another 15000 a year. and you are still only working 23 hrs a week, making 37500. i am pretty sure i could work this little and still have time for an addiction to heroin or something.

realistically, looking at the APA data, no one in any academia makes as little as the aforementioned.

research is generally sought after though. keep in mind that education is big business. the business (i.e., university) gets a sweet position wherein they hire someone, then tell said employee to find their own salary from somewhere else (i.e., grants). they then tell them they might fire them if they don't get enough money.

god i wish i could do that to my employees.......

 

[mlwg1]

research is generally sought after though. keep in mind that education is big business. the business (i.e., university) gets a sweet position wherein they hire someone, then tell said employee to find their own salary from somewhere else (i.e., grants). they then tell them they might fire them if they don't get enough money.

god i wish i could do that to my employees.......

That's a sobering perspective. . .yet it's so true. And it's why I might go private sector with my phD (shhhhh don't tell the clinical faculty).