Looking Back, Looking Forward: Preparing and Inducting Our New Colleagues

The Professional Development of Future Professors of Foreign Languages: Looking Back, Looking Forward

“…Discussion of the imperative to extend graduate students’ professional development opportunities beyond first‐year training and to better integrate teaching with scholarship continued during the past decade in numerous publications (Bernhardt, 2001; Byrnes, 2001; Chaput, 2001; Debicki, 2001; Guthrie, 2001; Pfeiffer, 2002; VanValkenburg & Arnett, 2000). Byrnes called for departmental responsibility for graduate students’ professional development and advocated partnered teaching between novice and experienced TAs, team teaching for TAs with faculty, and a requirement for two courses in FL pedagogy.…”

“…The impact of graduate students’ socialization into FL departments on their resulting conceptions of teaching and research was discussed by Chaput (2001), Guthrie (2001), and Debicki (2001). Chaput objected to a view of language teaching as intellectually empty, given the fact that nearly half of graduate students take faculty positions teaching courses peripheral to their area of specialization.…”