For teaching, you may want to have two headings, under which you list your classes: "Courses Designed and Taught" and "Courses Assisted." (For the latter, you will then also include the professor you assisted.) That way, it's clear how much control you had over each of the courses listed below them. (Obviously, if you only have courses for the first heading, don't put the second in yet until it's needed.)
Do not include anything about class size, or what you were teaching in particular. Anyone reading the CV who needs that information will ask for it; your email will be provided. I've seen people - especially new graduate students - using small paragraphs on what they were teaching and how they were teaching, etc., in order to bulk up the CV. And even if that isn't your intention, that's how it will read. The CV is for academics, and you don't need to explain what your responsibilities are for teaching a course (selecting readings, designing and grading assignments, etc.); it's common knowledge.
Non-academic work should only be listed if it's relevent. For instance, my friend who is a graduate student and composition program administrator includes the years he spent (before graduate school) as office manager for a large law office. Another friend of mine includes her non-academic editing experience (and she recently finished a stint as managing editor of a journal). If you include non-academic work in an academic CV, you may want to give a short few points as to what your duties were, in the event it isn't clear. But if it's related to your academic work, you likely don't need descriptions. If it isn't related - you want to list the years you spent working in a warehouse or the clerical experience you have - then leave it off. They are not appropriate for a CV.
The CV itself is a bullet-point list. Just as we don't include short summaries about the articles we have published or papers we have delivered in our CVs, we don't include such information for teaching.
Thanks so much for all the great info! This helped a lot. I worked for 5 years before starting my MA program this past fall, so I'm far more knowledgable about resumes than CVs, and I didn't expect to have to do one this soon.
Do not include anything about class size, or what you were teaching in particular. Anyone reading the CV who needs that information will ask for it; your email will be provided. I've seen people - especially new graduate students - using small paragraphs on what they were teaching and how they were teaching, etc., in order to bulk up the CV. And even if that isn't your intention, that's how it will read. The CV is for academics, and you don't need to explain what your responsibilities are for teaching a course (selecting readings, designing and grading assignments, etc.); it's common knowledge.
Non-academic work should only be listed if it's relevent. For instance, my friend who is a graduate student and composition program administrator includes the years he spent (before graduate school) as office manager for a large law office. Another friend of mine includes her non-academic editing experience (and she recently finished a stint as managing editor of a journal). If you include non-academic work in an academic CV, you may want to give a short few points as to what your duties were, in the event it isn't clear. But if it's related to your academic work, you likely don't need descriptions. If it isn't related - you want to list the years you spent working in a warehouse or the clerical experience you have - then leave it off. They are not appropriate for a CV.
The CV itself is a bullet-point list. Just as we don't include short summaries about the articles we have published or papers we have delivered in our CVs, we don't include such information for teaching.
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