The INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning (CTL) is proud to solicit applications for the fourth class of the INFORMS Early Career Teachers' Network (ECTN) Master Teacher Mentoring Program. The goal of ECTN is to develop master OR/MS/Analytics teachers. There are two components to the ECTN:
- ECTN Workshop: The ECTN Workshop is a pre-conference workshop prior to the INFORMS Annual Meeting. This year's ECTN Workshop will be held in person on Saturday, October 14, 2023 prior to the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting. During the ECTN Workshop, participants will meet their fellow ECTN participants to begin forming an ECTN community and learn the basics of constructing high-quality learning experiences for students. Workshop participants will also be introduced to their ECTN mentors to kickstart the mentoring process.
- ECTN Project: Each ECTN participant will be paired with an INFORMS member mentor that has spent considerable time in a teaching-stream position. The ECTN participant will work with his/her ECTN mentor on one or more teaching projects (creating a new course, publishing an OR/MS/Analytics case study, or other forms of collaboration) while the mentor provides the participant with feedback and suggestions to improve the participant's teaching. ECTN participants and mentors will meet virtually as a group one or possibly several times a year. By applying to the ECTN program, potential ECTN participants, if selected, are committing to assist in organizing next year's (2024) ECTN Workshop.
ECTN is currently accepting applications from potential participants (mentees) and mentors. ECTN participants, as part of the selection process, will be paired with an ECTN INFORMS member mentee from a different institution.
Program definitions:
"Teaching-stream position": For the purposes of the ECTN program, a "teaching-stream position" will be either of the following:
1. A teaching-focused position at a research university
2. A position at a university that has historically focused on teaching
ECTN program goals:
- Produce master OR/MS/Analytics teachers
- Increase the chance that ECTN participants in tenure track teaching-stream roles achieve tenure
Program requirements:
1. Applicants/Participants:
a. Currently in the last two years of Ph.D. program and plans to focus on a teaching stream career or received a Ph.D. within the last three years and has accepted or holds a teaching stream position
b. CV
c. Teaching statement
d. Letter of interest
e. Commitment to attend ECTN Workshop for 2023 (must register for the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting)
f. Commitment to help organize ECTN Workshop in the next year (2024)
2. Mentors:
a. CV
i. 5+ years in a OR/MS/Analytics teaching-stream role
ii. Demonstrated commitment to OR/MS/Analytics teaching
iii. Demonstrated commitment to INFORMS
b. Commitment to serve as an ECTN mentor for at least 1 year
c. Commitment to attend ECTN Workshop for 2023 (must register for the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting)
d. Commitment to help organize ECTN Workshop in the next year (2024)
Selected ECTN mentees and mentors are expected to register and attend the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting (the deadline for speakers to register is August 1st) . Both mentors and mentees will be given a certificate of completion after the workshop.
Questions? Want to apply? Email Nazli Turken (nturken1@jhu.edu) by 11:59 PM ET on 06/1/2023.
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Nazli Turken
Assistant Professor of Practice
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Baltimore MD
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