An Instructor Primer for Adjunct and New Faculty: Foundations for Career Success

Ovid K. Wong

doi:10.5771/9781610486514

Summary

Look no further if you are new to a teaching career in higher education regardless whether you are doing it full or part time. Your 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.

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Edition: 1/2013
Copyright Year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61048-649-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-651-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 117
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. Professor Taxonomy 101 No access
3. What’s in It for the Adjunct Faculty? No access
4. What Are the Challenges and Rewards? No access
5. What Is Your Decision about Joining the Adjunct Faculty? No access
6. What’s in It for the New Faculty? No access
7. What Is the Reality? No access
8. Summary and Reflection No access
9. References No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. The Syllabus No access
3. The Students No access
4. The Classroom and Office No access
5. The Professor No access
6. Summary and Reflection No access
7. Reference No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. Changing Student Demography No access
3. Changing Teaching Model No access
4. The Andragogy-Pedagogy Continuum No access
5. Summary and Reflection No access
6. References No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. Introduce Yourself and Take Charge No access
3. Get to Know the Students No access
4. The Syllabus No access
5. The Class Routine No access
6. The First Teaching Activity No access
7. Summary and Reflection No access
8. Reference No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. What Is a Model of Knowledge? No access
3. What Is Content Knowledge? No access
4. What Is Procedural Knowledge? No access
5. What Is Conceptual Knowledge? No access
6. What Is Metacognitive Knowledge? No access
7. Teaching Some Knowledge That You Are Not Familiar With! No access
8. Summary and Reflection No access
9. References No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. Show Your Classroom Charisma No access
3. State the Lesson Objective No access
4. The Three Logics of Instruction No access
5. Explore the Teaching Toolbox No access
6. A Pedagogical Model No access
7. Learning to Be the Effective Professor No access
8. Summary and Reflection No access
9. References No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. Start with the Basic Questions No access
3. Ask a Combination of Questions No access
4. Ask Intelligent Questions No access
5. Wait Time No access
6. Summary and Reflection No access
7. References No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. Technology-Integration Expectations No access
3. Presentation Technology No access
4. Simulation Learning Technology No access
5. Distance-Learning Technology No access
6. Mobile Technology—the iPad No access
7. Student Response System (SRS) No access
8. Look to the Future No access
9. Summary and Reflection No access
10. References No access
1. Anticipatory Questions No access
2. Assessment versus Evaluation No access
3. The Professor Evaluates Students No access
4. Objective Measurement No access
5. Subjective Measurement No access
6. Test Validity and Reliability No access
7. Students Evaluate the Professor No access
8. The University Evaluates the Professor No access
9. Summary and Reflection No access
About the Author No access Pages 117 - 117