Ovid K. Wong

An Instructor Primer for Adjunct and New Faculty (eBook, ePUB)

Foundations for Career Success

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Look no further if you are new to a teaching career in higher education regardless of whether you are doing it full- or part-time. The passion to share your wealth of knowledge and skills is a good beginning. However, you need to know the higher education environment from the classroom to the office of the administration well enough to thrive. If you are not new to instruction in higher education, this book can help you to look at rewards and challenges ahead. If you are a college administrator the book can help you to tool and retool your faculty for more effective instruction brining about better student learning achievement. Regardless of your college role it is important to remember that the vitality and credibility of the institution is defined by the excellence of the professors that they employed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610486514
• Artikelnr.: 56826927

Autorenporträt

Ovid K. Wong, PhD, is a veteran public school teacher and administrator before becoming an award winning science education professor at Benedictine University with 35 books published.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgment Figures Foreword by Dr. Stephen A. Nunes Introduction
Chapter 1 Welcome to the Teaching World of Higher Education Anticipatory
questions Professor taxonomy 101 What's in it for the adjunct faculty? What
are the challenges and rewards? What is your decision about joining the
adjunct faculty? What's in it for the new faculty? What is the reality?
Summary and reflection Chapter 2 Set the Stage before the First Day of
Class Anticipatory questions The course syllabus The student roster The
classroom and office The professor Summary and reflection Chapter 3 Probe
into the Minds of Learning Anticipatory questions Changing student
demography Changing teaching model Principles of adult learning The
adragogy-pedagogy continuum Summary and reflection Chapter 4 Enter the
Stage (environment) on the First Day of Class Anticipatory questions
Introduce yourself and take charge Get to know the students The course
syllabus The class routine The first teaching activity Summary and
reflection Chapter 5 Tackle the Knowledge Anticipatory questions What is a
model of knowledge? What is content knowledge? What is procedural
knowledge? What is conceptual knowledge? What is meta-cognitive knowledge?
Teaching Some Knowledge that You Do Not Know! Summary and reflection
Chapter 6 Unleash the Power of the Teaching Tool Box Anticipatory questions
Show your classroom charisma State the lesson objective The three logics of
instruction Explore the teaching tool box Lecture-based teaching
Interactive lecture-based teaching Field trip Case-based teaching
Game-based teaching Discussion-based teaching Laboratory-based teaching
Concept-based teaching A pedagogical model Summary and reflection Chapter 7
Navigate through the Magic of Questioning Anticipatory questions Start with
the basic questions Ask a combination of questions Ask intelligent
questions Wait time Summary and reflection Chapter 8 Integrate with
Instructional Technology Anticipatory questions Technology integration
expectations Simulation technology Distance learning technology Mobile
technology - iPad Student Response System (SRS) Look into the future
Summary and reflection Chapter 9 Full-circle Accountability Anticipatory
questions The professor evaluates students Objective measurement Subject
measurement Students evaluate the professor Summary and reflection About
the author