{"id":1015,"date":"2018-03-27T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:56:59","slug":"articulating-the-vaue-of-teaching-experience-as-a-postgraduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2018\/03\/27\/articulating-the-vaue-of-teaching-experience-as-a-postgraduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Articulating the value of teaching experience as a postgraduate"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/u>Guest blog post from Millie Green, a doctoral student in the Department of Mathematics. A few weeks ago Millie attended a session as part of the Doctoral Skills programme on how to articulate the skills, knowledge and experience gained through teaching as a postgraduate. She writes below about her learning points from the session.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year (2017-18) will be my 6th consecutive year of teaching at the university of Bath\u00a0as a postgraduate. During this time, I have been so busy, racing from task to task and attempting to multi-task that I\u2019ve never really taken the time\u00a0to reflect\u00a0on teaching experiences. The reason for this was simple \u2013 I didn\u2019t know how.<\/p>\n

So, to help me reflect on and recognise the skills that I had developed through teaching as a postgraduate, I decided to go on a new skills session, provided by the Doctoral College and the Careers Service; \u201cArticulating the Value of your Teaching Experience\u201d. The session consisted of both slide-based learning alongside interactive activities and a motivating talk from\u00a0Eleanor Parker, the Doctoral Engagement Manager,\u00a0reflecting on how her experience of teaching at University had helped\u00a0to prepare her for her\u00a0current job.<\/p>\n

During the session, I learned how to\u00a0view my teaching experiences from a different angle. For example, I often find that the groups that I tutor are very different; some are very active and my tutees\u00a0willingly get involved while for other groups I have to really push to get them to participate. I had never really given this much thought, assuming that this was just part and parcel of teaching. However, upon reflection, I can now appreciate that working with\u00a0different groups has enabled me to develop and enhance many transferable skills such as communication, motivation,\u00a0flexibility, resilience, and the ability to deal with change and the unexpected. Being able to communicate effectively with a variety of groups is a highly valued skill both inside and outside of academia. As part of the first activity in the session we brainstormed the transferable skills we have gained through teaching and came up with an impressive list:<\/p>\n