Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career

Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career

For faculty dealing with complicated job responsibilities in addition to a full course load, this Online Course delivers proven tips and strategies from expert educators to better fulfill your responsibilities and grow within your profession.

Advice about how to teach is plentiful, but what about professional development to help you be a teacher?

Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career is a 6-hour Online Course designed to touch on many of the non-classroom aspects of teaching at a higher education institution. Learn from experts about topics such as scholarship, citizenship, maintaining energy and enthusiasm, collaboration, grant writing, and extending your research beyond campus to the public.

Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career focuses on important details that faculty must manage in addition to teaching for success in a career in higher education. Experience the benefit from hearing practical advice from experienced educators. Each section- teach, grow, and reach -contains short programs that cover highly important questions and topics related to what it means to be a teacher.

Learning Goals

After completing Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career, you’ll be able to:

• Acquire motivation and helpful advice to improve teaching
• Designate time periods for learning, based on difficulty and time of semester
• Create a realistic plan for achieving your teaching and growth goals
• Explore how and where collaboration is appropriate, and how to get the most out of collaboration
• Learn to create relationships with student assistants that are mutually beneficial
• Be more effective in citizenship responsibilities and take an active role on campus
• Recognize the obligation research professors have to their students to be the very best scholar they can be
• Comprehend the vast possibilities for video creation and promotion
• Implement 10 steps to start a podcast, including defining the intended purpose, audience, and format
• Discover how to find resources for available grant opportunities and align research with funder objectives
• Understand how to evaluate your career, guidelines for successful transitions, and how to pivot to your next opportunity

Teachers, this is your specifically catered guide to help you manage your career and receive expert advice about the non-teaching aspects of your job descriptions! Learn how to better fulfill many aspects of your faculty responsibilities and grow within your profession with Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career.

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.

Who Will Benefit From This Course:

• Faculty
• Educational Developers