Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty
(full day workshop)

Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty

(full day workshop)

Target audience: Adjunct faculty members and their instructional leaders

Session One: Assessing your teaching style (90 minutes)

• Factors that drive our teaching style
• Administration of Teaching Style Self Assessment
• Diagnosis of results, implications

Session Two: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Adjunct Professors (60 minutes)

• Be proactive
• Begin with the end in mind
• Put first things first
• Think win/win
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood
• Synergize
• Sharpen the saw

Session Three: A Foundation for Effective Teaching and Learning (60 minutes)

• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• How students learn
• Comparison of instructor-directed vs. student-driven methods
• Criteria for selecting the most appropriate method

Session Four: Instructor-Directed Methods (75 minutes)

• Lecturing more effectively
• Employing guest speakers to achieve strategic results
• Effective use of video presentation

Session Five: Student-Driven Methods (90 minutes)

• Employing small group learning strategies
• Role playing
• Student presentations
• Experiential strategies

Session Six: Putting It All Together (30-45 minutes)

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