An Instructor Primer for Adjunct and New Faculty

Foundations for Career Success

By (author) Ovid K. Wong

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Publication date:

09 April 2013

Length of book:

124 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781610486514

Look no further if you are new to a teaching career in higher education regardless whether you are doing it full or part time. Your passion to share your wealth of knowledge and skills is a good beginning. However, you need to know the higher education environment from the classroom to the office of the administration well enough to thrive. If you are not new to instruction in higher education this book can help you to look at rewards and challenges ahead. If you are a college administrator the book can help you to tool and retool your faculty for more effective instruction brining about better student learning achievement. Regardless of your college role it is important to remember that the vitality and credibility of the institution is defined by the excellence of the professors that they employed.

Acknowledgment
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Foreword by Dr. Stephen A. Nunes
Introduction
Chapter 1 Welcome to the Teaching World of Higher Education
What are the challenges and rewards?
What is the reality?
Chapter 2 Set the Stage before the First Day of Class
Chapter 3 Probe into the Minds of Learning
Chapter 4 Enter the Stage (environment) on the First Day of Class
Chapter 5 Tackle the Knowledge
Chapter 6 Unleash the Power of the Teaching Tool Box
Chapter 7 Navigate through the Magic of Questioning
Chapter 8 Integrate with Instructional Technology
Student Response System (SRS)
Chapter 9 Full-circle Accountability
About the author

Dr. Ovid Wong has written a concise and usable guide for new higher education faculty, with significant advice for adjuncts. With increasing trends towards the hiring of adjuncts at many institutions, this volume can help with topics ranging from dos and don’ts on the first day of class, writing a syllabus, levels and organization of knowledge for teaching, to presentation style, the effective uses of questioning in the classroom, and the use of technology in college teaching. Dr. Wong has included excellent information on developing one’s teaching philosophy, engaging students (i.e., no sleeping!), and the unique nature of the adult learner. This book should fill a niche on the shelf of college teaching resources.