An audience favorite returns–and with a BONUS! Magna Online Seminars is bringing this popular program back for our audience members who missed it the first time around. To help you take advantage of this fact-filled seminar and get valuable recommendations for maintaining your confidence and remaining an effective instructor, we're offering it with expanded connection options. You can log on to the seminar anytime, all day long, on Tuesday, February 8–whenever it's most convenient for you!
There is a dirty little secret that more and more faculty across the country share. Many of them are going to get up in front of their classes tomorrow and teach something they just learned last week, two days ago, or (painful but true) tomorrow morning over a very hurried breakfast.
These aren’t disorganized teachers, but instructors who, for one reason or another, must teach outside their area of expertise.
Budget cuts, changing curricula and an increasing focus on interdisciplinary courses are just some of the pressures forcing instructors out of accustomed subject areas and into unfamiliar teaching territory.
Our 75-minute seminar will examine this growing phenomenon and outline helpful strategies for surviving “teaching on the fly.” You’ll gain valuable recommendations for maintaining your confidence and remaining an effective instructor, even when teaching outside your comfort zone.
Viewers teaching outside of their expertise will leave this seminar knowing:
•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.”
Idea: A highly affordable faculty event!
Our affordable registration fee makes a faculty learning event affordable. The price for this seminar is just $209, regardless of how many attendees you invite to watch the presentation. Simply sign on in a facility large enough to accomodate your group.
Who will benefit from this seminar?
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.
Truly, anyone in a teaching role or involved in faculty development will find this discussion timely, and the recommendations invaluable. Highly recommended for:
•Lecturers
•Instructors
•Visiting professors
•Assistant/associate professors
•Professors
•Adjunct instructors
•Directors
•Assistant/associate directors
•Teaching fellows
•Program directors
•Associate provosts
Now includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators
Participating in a Magna Online Seminar as a team can help leverage unique insights, foster collaboration, and build momentum for change. Each seminar now includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators which provides step-by-step instructions for generating productive discussions and thoughtful reflection. You’ll also get guidelines for continuing the conversation after the event, implementing the strategies discussed, and creating a feedback loop for sharing best practices and challenges.
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