You've just been given your first adjunct teaching assignment-- and you're probably thinking WOW! This is really great! Becoming an adjunct is just the first step in a life-changing experience... and that is what teaching will do to you...it will change your life, and give you an opportunity to make a difference. This blog aims to help you develop skills that help you develop your teaching persona. Stay tuned and come back often...
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Faculty As Learners: Fall 2012 Faculty Development Day
Twice a year Wilmington University holds Faculty development Day for its adjunct faculty. The purpose of this event is to provide training in pedagogy and educational technology. This event also updates adjunct faculty about Wilmu initiatives, and what’s new and happening. It is one of the few times that adjunct faculty actually have an opportunity to meet each other, talk, and share experiences.
Wilmu’s adjunct faculty are practitioners in the field, and therefore, have busy lives in which they don’t often have a chance to just sit and share teaching experiences with their adjunct faculty colleagues.
Kicking off the day was a welcome by the Vice-President of Academic Affairs encouraged instructors continue to provide academic quality and personalized attention to students in every class.
What followed were small break-out sessions with presentations about educational technology, assessment, and using the Ipad for educational purposes.
Instructors watched, listened, manipulated, and learned. Instructors as learners... all in all, a wonderful day!
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