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Dr. Paul Wright

August 19, 2009

Lindenwood University

Faculty Workshop


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TOP 10 List of Things To DoOn First Day of Class#10. If someone asks a question, walk silently over to their seat, hand

them your piece ofchalk, and ask, "Would YOU like to give the lecture, Mr.

Smartypants?"

#9. Wear mirrored sunglasses and speak only in Turkish. Ignore all questions.

#8. Announce that you need to deliver two lectures that day, and deliver them inrapid-fire auctioneer style.

#7. Show a video on medieval torture implements to your calculus class. Gigglethroughout it.

#6. Give an opening monologue. Take two minute "commercial breaks" everyten minutes.


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TOP 10 List of Things To Do

On First Day of Class#5 Bring a CPR dummy to class and announce that it will be the

teaching assistant for the semester. Assign it an office and officehours.

#4 Gradually speak softer and softer and then suddenly point to astudent and scream "YOU! WHAT DID I JUST SAY?"

#3 Deliver your lecture through a hand puppet. If a student asks you aquestion directly, say in a high-pitched voice, "The Professor can't

hear you, you'll have to ask *me*, Winky Willy".

#2 Ask for a volunteer for a demonstration. Ask them to fill out a waiveras you put on a lead apron and light a blowtorch.

#1 Jog into class, rip the textbook in half, and scream, "Are you

pumped? ARE YOU PUMPED? I CAN'T HEEEEEEAR YOU!"


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Presentation Outline Teaching or Entertaining?

Sports Psychology for Teachers

Goal Setting & The Law of Attraction Success Cycle

Flow Model

Multiple Intelligence Theory

The Interactive Class-Rooms Ideas from theTrenches

Summing Up Three Things


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Teaching or Entertaining?


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsONE.

Good teaching is as much about passion as it is aboutreason. It's about not only motivating students tolearn, but teaching them how to learn, and doing so ina manner that is relevant, meaningful, andmemorable. It's about caring for your craft, having a

passion for it, and conveying that passion to everyone,most importantly to your students.

Dr. Richard LeBlanc


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Goal Setting and the

Law of Attraction S.M.A.R.T.s of Goal Setting

Law of Attraction

Believe Receive Achieve


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsTWO.

Good teaching is about substance and treating students asconsumers of knowledge. It's about doing your best to keepon top of your field, reading sources, inside and outside of

your areas of expertise, and being at the leading edge asoften as possible. But knowledge is not confined toscholarly journals. Good teaching is also about bridging the

gap between theory and practice. It's about leaving theivory tower and immersing oneself in the field, talking to,consulting with, and assisting practitioners, and liaisoning

with their communities.


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The Success Cycle


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsTHREE.

Good teaching is about listening, questioning, beingresponsive, and remembering that each student andclass is different. It's about eliciting responses anddeveloping the oral communication skills of the quiet

students. It's about pushing students to excel; at thesame time, it's about being human, respecting others,and being professional at all times.


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsFOUR.

Good teaching is about not always having a fixed agenda and

being rigid, but being flexible, fluid, experimenting, andhaving the confidence to react and adjust to changingcircumstances. It's about getting only 10 percent of what

you wanted to do in a class done and still feeling good. It'sabout deviating from the course syllabus or lecture

schedule easily when there is more and better learningelsewhere. Good teaching is about the creative balancebetween being an authoritarian dictator on the one handand a pushover on the other.


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High Bar vs. Slanty Bar


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsFIVE.

Good teaching is also about style. Should good teachingbe entertaining? You bet! Does this mean that it lacksin substance? Not a chance! Effective teaching is notabout being locked with both hands glued to a podiumor having your eyes fixated on a slide projector while

you drone on. Good teachers work the room and everystudent in it. They realize that they are the conductorsand the class is the orchestra. All students playdifferent instruments and at varying proficiencies.


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Multiple Intelligence Theory!


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsSix.

This is very important -- good teaching is about humor.It's about being self-deprecating and not takingyourself too seriously. It's often about makinginnocuous jokes, mostly at your own expense, so that

the ice breaks and students learn in a more relaxedatmosphere where you, like them, are human withyour own share of faults and shortcomings.


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Ideas from the Trenches!


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsSEVEN.

Good teaching is about caring, nurturing, anddeveloping minds and talents. It's about devotingtime, often invisible, to every student. It's also aboutthe thankless hours of grading, designing or

redesigning courses, and preparing materials to stillfurther enhance instruction.


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Using Technology Powerpoint

Prezi.com

WebCT/Blackboard

Facebook

Video-Conferencing

Skype


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsEIGHT.

Good teaching is supported by strong and visionaryleadership, and very tangible institutional support --resources, personnel, and funds. Good teaching iscontinually reinforced by an overarching vision that

transcends the entire organization -- from fullprofessors to part-time instructors -- and is reflectedin what is said, but more importantly by what is done.


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Using Personal Narrative

Story-Telling

Metaphors

Personal Experience

Guest Lecturers

Student Experiences


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsNINE.

Good teaching is about mentoring between senior andjunior faculty, teamwork, and being recognized andpromoted by one's peers. Effective teaching shouldalso be rewarded, and poor teaching needs to be

remediated through training and developmentprograms.


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Class Activities **Games**

Questions -- Direct

Small Group Discussion

Presentations

Experiential Learning

Field Trips

Debates


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BE A COACH! Help Students

Find their inner strengths and passions in order tonurture self-worth and identity.

Have a voice in their own learning and to negotiatecollectively with the teacher to create their class goals.

Passionately engage in TALKING content to increasetheir memory retention and to fuel motivation to learn.

Use their gifts and inner talents to bring their work andefforts to the highest level of scholarship attainable.


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Good Teaching

Top 10 RequirementsTEN.

At the end of the day, good teaching is about having fun,experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards ... like lockingeyes with a student in the back row and seeing the synapsesand neurons connecting, thoughts being formed, theperson becoming better, and a smile cracking across a face

as learning all of a sudden happens. Good teachers practicetheir craft not for the money or because they have to, butbecause they truly enjoy it and because they want to. Goodteachers couldn't imagine doing anything else.


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On the average, students in college will remember /learn just three (3)things from any college class they have taken. Unfortunately thosethree things are usually the grade they got, their opinion of theinstructor, and if we are fortunate the instructors name.

What if those three things were:

-- How to communicate more appropriately?

-- How to write more effectively?

-- How to think more creatively?

I believe that I have something profound to pass on to every studentthat walks through my door. The trick is to have them leave with itfirmly engrained in their proverbial back-pocket.


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Hey Coach, Its Glenn **** from your Sports Psychology. I just wantedto write you because it's been about a month now since school got out. Ihave made huge changes in my life since our last class so I thought you

would be interested in hearing. First, I haven't touched a video game sinceour last day of class and I have had a girlfriend now for 3 1/2 weeks. Ihaven't stayed up past 1 in a month and every day I have been training

with a firefighter my Dad works with for a Tri-athalon (if thats how youspell it lol) on July 19th. I run three miles every morning at 9. I was really

writing to credit you for pushing me to turn myself around although I wasstill very happy in life during school I am a lot more pleased with myselfnow. So I told myself when school let out that I was gonna change and

write you in a month so I was just letting you know where I stand. I haveyour motto posted up on my wall and look at it every day "You are aproduct of your thoughts and dreams." Thanks for teaching us how tobecome better people.


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THANK YOU!

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