Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Faculty Development workshops I'd like to see

"What to do when the power goes out"
"How to adjust the lights in a room not designed for media"
"How to regain the class' attention after a group work exercise"
or "How to peacefully get the class' attention to start class"
"How to deal with/prevent the rustle/bag zipping 5 minutes before the end of class"
"How to constructively deal with questions to which you do not know the answer"
"How to break the news that a paper is getting an F for plagiarism"
"What to do when phones ring in class"
"How to use pertinent graphics (and where to find them) in your Powerpoints"
"How to teach students how to do group work"
"How to avoid killer rhetorical questions" or "How to ask real questions in class"
"How to recognize learning disabilities"
"What are other kinds of homework to assign aside from reading and writing that will draw students into the content"
or "Sometimes the DVD is better than the book: how to use multi-media as homework"
"How to break through the cultural rules that dictate that students should not interact with the professor" or "How to get students to quit chatting and get talking"
"Coming to grips with student passive resistance"

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