Professional Development Session for New and Aspiring Educators
An event in conjunction with SIGCSE TS 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024:   8:30am - 5:30pm
Location: Rooms B110-112, Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Portland, Oregon

A successful career as an educator involves more than a deep understanding of a research area. Even so, many new CS educators experience relatively little training as educators and face more questions than answers, e.g., How do I find a career path and institution that are right for me? What strategies can I use during the job search and interviewing process to achieve my goals? What tips could help me organize a course, scaffold engaging experiences, and build lasting relationships with students? What practical steps can I take to support equity, diversity, and inclusion in my work?

The Professional Development Session for New and Aspiring Educators is a pre-symposium affiliated event at SIGCSE TS 2024 that, through presentations, discussions, and small-group community building, will tackle these questions. The session is designed to assist aspiring and early-career educators in exploring the non-research facets of an academic career. It will run on March 20, 2024 in Portland, Oregon, USA from 8:30am to 5:30pm, and is open to postdocs and graduate students in any year who are considering careers in academia, as well as pre-tenure faculty members and new teaching-track faculty seeking guidance and/or networking support. This session is one of several career-focused, SIGCSE-affiliated events at the 2024 Technical Symposium that have served more than 200 educators over the past decade.

We thank the SIGCSE Board for its generous support of the 2024 session, which is free for all participants. Some travel support is available, with preference given to graduate students. Funding is limited, so interested graduate students, postdocs, and pre-tenure faculty are encouraged to apply early.

Registering for the Session

We are no longer accepting applications for travel grants. Travel grant applications are now open. Please apply via our online form.

Registration for the Session is FREE, thanks to the generous support of the SIGCSE Board. You will be able to register for the session via the SIGCSE Technical Symposium registration system when you register for the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. SIGCSE Technical Symposium Registration costs and further registration information for the Technical Symposium will be posted on the SIGCSE TS 2024 website as soon as it is available.

A limited number of grants are available to help cover expenses (e.g., travel, hotel, food, SIGCSE TS registration). Preference will be given to graduate students.

Participants must commit to attending the complete schedule on March 20th, from 8:30am-5:30pm, and are strongly encouraged to attend all of the SIGCSE TS 2024 conference.

Attendance is limited; we encourage you to register early. To be considered for a travel grant, submit your application by Sunday, December 10th, 2023. If there is remaining funding, applications will be continue to be reviewed on a rolling basis after that.