Confidence and credibility! (Even outside your comfort zone)
Featured Higher Education Presenter: Dr. Therese Huston
Date: Wednesday, 04/28/10
Time: 12:00 - 1:15 PM CDT
Cost: $249 ($274 after 04/21/10)
Three easy ways to register!
Phone: 800-433-0499 / 608-227-8182
Instructors are increasingly being asked to teach topics outside their areas of expertise, sometimes digesting subject matter one day and teaching it the next. Have you ever felt the pressure to be the "Jack (or Jill) of all trades"?
Demands on faculty continue to grow as general education programs are being re-designed and expanded on many campuses. Faculty are being asked to adapt their courses to meet new university objectives:
Campuses are adding first-year experience seminars where everyone teaches around a common theme, but that theme may have nothing to do with one's field.
For example, instructors who've never needed to read the literature on leadership are suddenly being asked to teach students about leadership.
A new focus on inter-disciplinary courses requires instructors to approach a familiar topic from a new way of thinking. Budget cuts are another reason faculty are being called on to teach new and less-than-familiar material:
Department chairs need instructors to help fill gaps in the curriculum.
Senior faculty are putting research on hold in favor of survey courses they haven't taught in years while tenure-track faculty are being asked to teach courses they haven't taken since they were sophomores.
Adjunct faculty are finding ways to be versatile in their department so that they survive budget cuts.
In this informative seminar, you'll learn how to survive teaching under these challenging circumstances. You'll gain simple but effective strategies to help you manage stress and anxiety; maintain poise; and demonstrate credibility, even in unfamiliar subject areas.
Register today and learn:
Three factors that can protect you from becoming overly strained and anxious.
How important it is to talk with someone about the fact that you're teaching outside your expertise. (And you'll address the big question, of course, of whether to tell your students.)
Seven faculty behaviors that reduce student perceptions of your credibility.
New ways to respond to questions when you don't know the correct answer.
How to prioritize what to teach about unfamiliar topics.
Why you must learn to view your role in class as something other than "the knowledge dispenser."
Who Should Attend?
You'll find the common theme and core elements of this seminar apply to a broad field of instruction. In investigating this subject, our presenter worked with faculty from a wide range of disciplines at institutions large and small, public and private.
Highly recommended for:
Lecturers
Instructors
Visiting professors
Assistant/associate professors
Professors
Adjunct instructors
Directors
Assistant/associate directors
Teaching fellows
Program directors
Associate provosts
Edited by respected scholar and expert Dr. Maryellen Weimer of Penn State Berks, The Teaching Professor is a forum for discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in the college classroom.
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