Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors

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Training
20 Hours
Magna Publications
ID: 5641303

Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors

Achieve and sustain classroom success through this Online Course which provides an in-depth examination of five core principles of college teaching.

There are fundamental concepts any teacher can learn to create great teaching and learning. Yet, many faculty enter the classroom as experts in their discipline but with little knowledge of pedagogy.

Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors is geared towards newer university-level teachers and presents five fundamentals for effective teaching, regardless of background or discipline, including: efficient and effective course design, meaningful student participation in learning, engaging teaching methods, clear and fair assessments, and connecting with students.

You’ll finish this 20-25 hour Online Course empowered to create and deliver an effective course in your formative university teaching years that both helps students succeed and also yields more positive student evaluations.

Learning Goals

After completing Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors, you’ll be able to:

Understand four curriculum ideologies and their differences
Learn five learning theories and their differences
Analyze your view of the role of the student and teacher
Write your philosophy of teaching and learning
Define the educational theory of Backward Design
Analyze effective types and qualities of good learning outcomes
Determine appropriate assessments of learning outcomes
Write course learning outcomes and assessments
Implement five keys to organize your course: alignment, order, clarity, logic, and consistency
Comprehend how “know, feel, and do” relates to and expands upon active learning
Apply the seven hungers of learners
Understand the benefits and drawbacks of blended learning
Examine principles and challenges of Mastery Learning
Explore practical, smaller instructional changes to implement Mastery Learning today
Learn 12 principles for resonance, relevance, and remembrance of your class presentations
Utilize practical forms of student participation in a lecture presentation
Plan five go-to activities in any lecture setting
Determine effective approaches for blended-learning videos
Understand how fair assessment centers on being clear, outcome-based, balanced, and varied
Demonstrate how to incorporate peer-to-peer feedback for formative and summative assessments
Analyze 15 effective practices to write better multiple-choice test questions

This asynchronous course also features transcripts, note-taking guides, supplementary materials, and regular assessments to enhance your learning, as well as a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

While you chose teaching because of your love of (and expertise in) your discipline, many educators haven’t received thorough guidance in pedagogy, course design, effective delivery, or even how to help students succeed. Get the five fundamentals that every teacher needs for success! Make Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors your comprehensive guide to college teaching today!

Who Will Benefit From This Course:

Faculty
Educational Developers

“That was the most engaging video lecture series/continuing education course I have ever taken, and as a PT who is required to take a significant amount of credits annually, that’s saying something! The note handouts provided enough information that I was able to focus on the examples given by Professor Sweat, but know if I went back to the content provided later there was enough provided that I wouldn’t be lost or confused if I didn’t take notes myself. I would definitely take another course by Professor Sweat and I feel more confident now as a professor than I did even after having one semester under my belt.” - Sarah Andreucci, Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education, Bryant & Stratton College

“Thank you very much for sharing invaluable lessons with us… the content has provided me with great tools to use in my own practice in planning ‘training’ courses (for CPD) and for our Academic Induction Programme for Early Career Academics - Thank you!!!” - Matshidiso Mathibedi, Academic Developer, University of Pretoria - South Africa

Course Content

Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors Course Outline and Learning Goals Overall Course Learning Objective Participants will finish this course empowered to create and deliver an effective course in their formative university teaching years that both helps students succeed and also yields more positive student evaluations.

UNIT 1: GREAT COURSE DESIGN Pedagogical Philosophy, Backward Design, Learning Outcomes, Organization

Module 1.1 - Introduction
Module 1.2 - Get Philosophical Learning Goals:

Understand four curriculum ideologies and their differences
Learn five learning theories and their differences
Analyze your view of the role of the student
Analyze your view of the role of the teacher
Write your philosophy of teaching and learning

Module 1.3 - Begin Backwards Learning Goal: - Define the educational theory of Backward Design
Module 1.4 - Write Learning Outcomes and Assess Them Learning Goals:

Understand why learning outcomes are essential
Analyze effective types and qualities of good learning outcomes
Determine appropriate assessments of learning outcomes
Explore the idea of a culminative assessment
Write course learning outcomes and assessments

Module 1.5 - Get Organized Learning Goal:

Five keys to organize your course: alignment, order, clarity, logic, and consistency Unit 1 Conclusion
For Further Thought
Further Reading & Resources
Assessment

UNIT 2: EFFECTIVE LEARNING APPROACHES Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, Blended Learning, Mastery Learning

Module 2.1 - Invite Active Learning Learning Goals:

Define active learning
Understand how “know, feel, and do” relates to and expands upon active learning
Apply seven hungers of learners

Module 2.2 - Benefit from Blended Learning Learning Goals:

Define blended learning
Understand the benefits and drawbacks of blended learning
Implement aspects of blended learning in your course

Module 2.3 - Strive Toward Mastery Learning Goals:

Define nine elements of Mastery Learning
Understand Mastery Learning’s statistical effect
Examine principles and challenges of Mastery Learning
Analyze potential ways to implement Mastery Learning assessment
Explore practical, smaller instructional changes to implement Mastery Learning today

Unit 2 Conclusion

For Further Thought
Further Reading & Resources
Assessment

UNIT 3: ENGAGING TEACHING PRESENTATION Relevance, Participation, PowerPoint, Learning Videos

Module 3.1 - Present with Resonance, Relevance, and Remembrance Learning Goal:

Understand 12 principles for resonance, relevance, and remembrance of your class presentations

Module 3.2 - Invite Participation Learning Goals:

Learn practical forms of student participation in a lecture presentation
Plan five go-to activities in any lecture setting

Module 3.3 - Create Quality Learning Videos Learning Goals:

Understand effective approaches for blended-learning videos
Apply principles of effective blended learning videos to better a subject matter
Create a plan to implement effective principles of blended learning videos to a subject matter

Unit 3 Conclusion

For Further Thought
Further Reading & Resources
Assessment

UNIT 4: OUTSTANDING ASSESSMENT Clear, Fair, Effective, and Cumulative Assessment

Module 4.1 - Clear Assessment Learning Goals:

What is a learning goal (or class objective) and how does it differ from a course outcome?
What is a rubric, and how do I create effective ones?

Module 4.2 - Fair Assessment Learning Goals:

Understand how fair assessment centres on being
clear
outcome-based
balanced
varied
Explain how GPA and course rigor are not equivalent Module 4.3 - Effective Assessment Learning Goals:
Understand multiple-lens assessment
Demonstrate how to incorporate peer-to-peer feedback for formative and summative assessments
Incorporate student self-assessment
Understand how to use technology to provide automated feedback on multiple choice questions

Module 4.4 - Write More Effective Multiple Choice Questions

Learning Goals: