Target Audience, Overview, and 6 Assumptions
Target Audience
Workshops are designed and intended for:
Subject-Matter Experts and Entrepreneurs with little or no teaching experience or training, but want to effectively share their knowledge and expertise with students in a classroom setting.
Potential Educators interested in learning how to deliver highly effective instruction.
New or Experienced Educators and Teaching Assistants preparing to teach a specific course for the first time.
Curriculum and Course Designers responsible for developing new or revising existing courses.
Faculty Developers, Teacher Trainers, Mentors, and Coaches who want to help others polish their teaching skills.
Educational Administrators interested in enhancing their understanding and assessment of highly effective teaching and want to develop and promote exemplary teaching.
Researchers, Standards Setters, and Evaluators responsible for ensuring the quality of instruction.
Knowledge Seekers who want to be better informed about the teaching-learning process.
Job Seekers who want to become more competitive in the job market by meeting the increasing demand for qualified higher education faculty.
Overview
Each workshop is:
- Facilitated by Dr. Nesnick’s and presented in her signature welcoming, positive, and encouraging manner.
- Interactive, thought-provoking stimulating and build on skills, resources and creativity of participants.
- Packed with research-based teaching and learning principles and strategies intended to unlock and guide participants’ potentials as effective educators.
- Pragmatic. These cut-to-the-chase tutorials provide easily implemented practical strategies, applicable almost immediately, with lasting results.
- Based on decades of research, interviews and experience, thus cultivating rich dialogue.
- Helpful in distinguishing participants as competent educators and their students as expert learners.
- Enhanced through distributing select copies of Dr. Nesnick’s reproducible documents/handouts. For example:
Templates and/or Sample Documents
Teaching and Learning Principles and Strategies
Best Practices for Educators
Nomenclature Lists: Workshop-Specific Definitions
Lists of Inspirational, Call-to-Action Quotations
Lists of References and Resources
Webliography (World Wide Web Resources)
6 Assumptions
Dr. Nesnick’s customized workshops, presentations, consultations, classroom observations, and educational materials are designed and presented based on six assumptions:
Assumption #1: Effective teaching is not based upon inborn traits. Effective teaching is based upon a learned set of skills that can always be improved.
Assumption #2: Doing anything for the first time often brings uncertainty and anxiety.
Assumption #3: People want to minimize the uncertainly and anxiety that often occurs when attempting a new or revised task. People tend to appreciate a step-by-step guide and model to help them navigate new terrain.
Assumption #4: Traditionally, higher education instructors (although likely subject-matter experts or specialists in their field), have received insufficient professional training in how to teach effectively.
Assumption #5: As a result of a “trial by fire” or “sink or swim” approach, new faculty may initially develop educationally unsound teaching strategies which will be difficult to change and can produce negative results.
Assumption #6: Extensive research has uncovered basic universal principles regarding how, when, why, and where people learn best. These create the basis for establishing strategies for effective teaching.
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