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Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins is offering two fellowship opportunities:
Rare Book Fellowship Opportunity
George Peabody Library: Rare Book Librarianship
The George Peabody Library (GPL) is an extraordinary collection, housed in an equally extraordinary nineteenth century building, that deserves focused attention by a scholar who is able to understand its potential to support teaching and research at the Johns Hopkins University. The CLIR Fellowship program would offer a unique opportunity for a recent Ph.D. to be introduced to the challenges of rare book librarianship in an academic and strongly research-oriented setting while providing the Sheridan Libraries with tangible products.
There are several tracks such a fellowship year might take. First, the fellow could assess parts of the collection for strengths and develop programming such as working with JHU faculty to teach a course based on the collection, mounting an exhibition, and/or preparing narrative descriptions that could be used in publications or added to the department web pages. With in-depth knowledge of parts of the collection, the fellow might participate in collection development activities to identify titles needed to support the existing collection.
Another track might introduce the fellow to the challenges of preservation for a collection of the size and scope of the GPL. The fellow might receive training in physical analysis and prepare a preservation needs assessment of the collection. The fellow might also be engaged in development activities to identify support for the collection.
http://www.library.jhu.edu/collections/specialcollections/rarebooks/peabody/peabodyhis2.html
Foreign Language Teacher Training Program
Overview
The Romance Languages Department at Johns Hopkins University has a long history of providing excellent foreign language education to undergraduates. The department is committed to continual improvement, and therefore, plans to develop a Foreign Language Teacher Training program to provide a professional and specialized training program in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Foreign Language Methodology to new language teachers (i.e., graduate students and full-time/part-time instructors). This program will indirectly benefit the 1100 undergraduates who take courses in the Italian and Spanish Language programs every year. In addition, it will prepare graduate students for their teaching responsibilities.
The CLIR fellow will assist the Spanish and the Italian Language Program Directors in designing, developing, and implementing this innovative program. The fellow will also work closely with staff from the Center for Educational Resources (CER). The CER is a teaching and learning support department located in the Sheridan Libraries that manages a general Teaching Assistant training program available to all graduate students and supports faculty and teaching assistants with their instructional responsibilities.
Job Responsibilities
The CLIR Fellow will design, develop, implement, and evaluate a Foreign Language Teacher Training program. This could include both face-to-face and asynchronous, online instruction. Specific, job responsibilities include the following.
- Develop a vision for a pilot program addressing the specific training needs of graduate students and instructors teaching foreign language courses.
- Perform a needs assessment and identify the most appropriate teaching methodologies to be taught in the Teacher Training program.
- Design instructional modules on language teacher training.
- Design and develop (with CER student staff) multimedia instructional modules to be used during the teacher training program.
- Implement the training program. This includes modeling pedagogical and student evaluation techniques taught in the program.
- Identify and oversee videotaping of best teaching practices by Johns Hopkins instructors for inclusion as learning objects in future training.
- Work with research services librarians and A/V staff to identify library materials to support instruction.
- Conduct evaluation activities to assess participant's learning and use this data to improve future training.
Required Professional Experience
- PhD - Concentration in second language acquisition
- Fluency in either Italian or Spanish AND working knowledge of the other
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a team environment
- U.S. Permanent Resident, U.S. Citizen, J-1 Visa
Preferred Professional Experience
- At least one year experience facilitating courses in foreign language or a teacher-training program
- Familiar with MS Office, Course Management System technology (e.g., Blackboard, Sakai), Basic Web Development skills, Open to learning new educational technologies as needed
- Good time-management and project-management skills
Salary and Benefits
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience and accomplishments.
Contact: Mike Reese (mreese@jhu.edu)
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