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[marigolds]

Thanks, smarty--I sure wasn't going to put it under normal publications because it's not peer-reviewed, but if I subdivide that category that wouldn't feel dishonest or as though I were padding by including it. 

indeed. It's also where I put book reviews.

Is this common - where others include things like book reviews, non-peer reviewed papers (i.e. conference proceedings), and the like?

I hope not!  Not in my field--it seems (from the models I'm using from my department, at least) like people have a conferences category, a book reviews category (if they've done a lot), and a peer-reviewed pubs category.  This just doesn't obviously fit into any of those, but if I generalize and abstract-ify the categories some (non-peer-reviewed) it should be fine.

I just don't want to look like a wackaloon.

I might put it under service, myself, but the rest of my pubs are regular pubs.  I'm also no longer a grad student, and my "service" categories are many and varied enough to accommodate something like that with ease.  For you, I'd try to find it a logical home, which might be service or might be under a sub-heading of teaching or publishing. 

Having seen people claim that a packet of course readings printed through one of those custom book publishers as a publication, I am increasingly wary of anything strange-looking that is housed under publications.  (Your example is much closer than compiling a reader.)

Do you have any other editing or digital humanities experience?  This might be housed in that kind of a sub-heading.  Have you created any other teaching materials like this for other purposes or groups?  It could also be a "Related Teaching Whatevers" category.  Think, too, about how you want or need to sell yourself to certain jobs.  Would a category of this kind of material make sense to highlight these experiences (if there are multiples) or does it make more sense to fold it into an established category as a side-note? 

I've done some (unsuccessful, so far) federal grant-writing that's not currently included, but no editing. (I didn't do the web design, to be clear, though I sat in on the process because I'm interested--I just researched/synthesized/compiled/created the set of materials [some of each of those], and framed them in terms of concrete lesson plans instead of sets of vague principles.)

I have done some f2f teaching of this pedagogical technique--I've been asked to run a training workshop on it for faculty at my institution for the last 2 years as part of a several-day bootcamp for faculty who want to do this.  (My part is usually between 1.5-2 hrs long.) 

Maybe under "Other teaching experience", or "other professional experience." I have enough under service already, and the other categories are much thinner.

[janewales]

I think some people list those lectures-as-a-TA lectures as "guest lectures" in order to indicate that they have experience lecturing (rather than just, say, marking, or guiding tutorial groups). It's a mistake, though, to call them "guest lectures," for all the reasons others have said. What you can do is make sure that your dossier includes a letter from the professor for whom you gave the lecture(s), who can then speak to your ability to take on stand-and-deliver-style teaching.

I make sure to ask my own TAs to take over one of the lectures to the main group, just so that I can write such a letter.

[pink_]

I have a section on my CV for "Other Writing" that includes book reviews, reference entries and other non peer-reviewed miscellany.

[totoro]

It's irritating trying to work out what is a peer-reviewed publication, or even a conference presentation where people mix all these things up in applications. You should keep peer-reviewed, non-peer reviewed and just a talk separate. Of course, if your paper appeared in a refereed conference proceedings that's another story.

On the lectures in the course you are the TA for, don't list them separately - just put that you were TA for the course and you can mention next to that something like: "Duties included grading, office hours, occasional lectures".

[ruralguy]

I wouldn't just write "occassional lectures" . I know in the sciences some might just interpret this as casually explaining a lab exercise.
I would clarify that its a lecture to the entirety of the class (might even put the number), and give an example name of a lecture you gave. Then it is tototally clear that it was a "real lecture" (whether it was any good is a totally different ball of wax!)

[shamu]

I have a section on local presentations and workshops that are clearly differentiated from my research.

When I was on SCs and saw non-peer-reviewed work mixed in with peer-reviewed ones, it meant one of two things: (1) lack of awareness or (2) padding. Both are usually signs of lack of experience, which is more forgivable if you are at the very early stages of your career, but not all my colleagues are as forgiving...

[polly_mer]

Before I had any instructor-of-record experience, one of the categories on my CV was Teaching and Related Service Experience.  That's where I put my TA experience with my duties, my mentoring of student research (definitely more teaching than research in some cases), my workshop experiences, my science fair judge/mentor activities, and my other non-classroom teaching.  Now, my teaching section only has college/university classes I've taught, but my service section still has non-college-classroom teaching when I apply for jobs where those experiences likely will be a plus.  I've gotten some good responses from discussions about my workshops on inverted classrooms as well as my summers with gifted and talented STEM 7-12 programs.

One other thing to consider is what goes in other materials to nudge people to the appropriate sections of your CV.  If a particular item would be a good selling point for a search committee, then put it in the cover letter, teaching philosophy, or research statement as appropriate.  Stating that your teaching experience includes standalone lectures could be important.  Stating your experience developing these pedagogical materials may fit nicely with a section on teaching philosophy.

[prof_smartypants]

I have a section on local presentations and workshops that are clearly differentiated from my research.

When I was on SCs and saw non-peer-reviewed work mixed in with peer-reviewed ones, it meant one of two things: (1) lack of awareness or (2) padding. Both are usually signs of lack of experience, which is more forgivable if you are at the very early stages of your career, but not all my colleagues are as forgiving...

Just to be clear, when I said that it's OK to lump stuff together, I meant "book reviews, conference proceedings, and other non-peer-reviewed publications" could be lumped together, not needing a heading for each. I did not intend to imply that all pubs should be lumped together.

[glowdart]

For the TA question, could something like this work?

TA Experience at My Grad Uni

Intro to Basketweaving, Fall 2011- Spring 2012
- Discussion section leader for 25 students each semester
- Full class lectures delivered: "Baskets and Reeds" and "Current Issues in Basket Technology"


(This isn't really what we do in my discipline, so I'm guessing at things that would make sense to me if I were looking at someone's CV.  This gets the topics across, communicates that you've taught big sections and been a discussion leader across, and it doesn't put information in multiple places like having a Courses TAed list and an "Invited Lectures" or "Guest Lectures" model does)

??

[polly_mer]

Glowdart, that looks similar to what I had.  Perhaps expand out with a couple of words what discussion section leader does if there's a possible variance since some people use a professor's materials, some people develop their own materials, some people also grade, etc.

[totoro]

Glowdart - that looks good to me.

[marigolds]

Give all this excellent advice, I probably won't include it anywhere.  The application is to a SLAC, so big lectures aren't a draw; my adviser can put it in her letter if she wants (I happened to be TAing for her); and I have a s***-ton of instructor of record and course design experience, so the TAships I'm listing only to show that I can teach other large intro subject courses outside my subject area if the department so needs. 

I think the subdivided pubs thing is how I'll roll with that.