Webinars

For instructional leaders:

Optimizing the Success of Your Adjunct Faculty

This 90 minute Webinar provides those who oversee the teaching of part-time instructors with valuable insights for attaining increased performance. It provides critical research findings that enable your institution to initiate grounded strategies for developing the skills and insights that you expect in your part-time instructors. This Webinar can accommodate up to 25 participants.

Delivered to an audience open to multiple colleges or universities:
Sessions scheduled for August 21 and September 11 -- both at 3 p.m. Eastern.
Cost: $159 order form

Delivered to an audience closed to instructional leaders of a single institution:
Cost: $ 425

For adjunct instructors, the AdjunctSuccess collection:

Teaching at Our College/University: Mission, Culture and Students

[Open only to adjunct professors registered by a client institution.] Colleges and universities in North America vary a great deal from each other, including those whose campus might be nearby. Teaching in the same way you were taught at the institution from which you matriculated can sometimes create problems. With an instructional leader from the institution serving as co-facilitator, this program identifies the unique qualities of the institution that should be integrated into your teaching and course management practices.

The Adjunct Professor: Formulating a Strategy for Success

Success in any endeavor is a function of having a grounded understanding of the situation at hand, establishing realistic objectives, conducting ongoing assessment and commitment to continuous improvement. This program enables you to better understand these issues within your college teaching environment, and develop a master strategy for achieving personal success.

Planning Your Teaching Strategically

With a master strategy established, the adjunct professor needs proven tactics that enable its successful achievement. This program provides proven tactics for planning a course that increases student learning, minimizing problems that might occur under less-planned circumstances, and fostering the personal rewards that you seek from college teaching.

Today's College and University Students

In addition to factors that are a function of the institutional culture, students today differ in many ways from those who sat next to us when we were college students. In this program, the common lifestyles, values, learning styles and motivation of today's students are explored, so that you can better meet students' needs and thus become more valued by the college or university for which you teach.

Teaching Online: The Basics

In recent years, a major change in higher education from your days as a student is the increased use of "distance learning" methods. These tools enable the college or university to meet the needs of time- and place-challenged students, but often present distinct challenges. Being as effective teaching online as in a face-to-face classroom requires an expanded skill set to which this program will introduce you.

Managing Student Retention Mileposts

Successful leaders of most enterprises commonly employ a tool called the 20/80 Rule. Retaining students into the next term and to completion of the instructional program is a major factor upon which adjunct professors are increasingly being evaluated. This program enables you to apply this proven tool to help you identify and better manage the key 20% of mileposts within the term that affect student retention.

Launching Your Course Effectively

The first key retention milepost for your course is the first week of class. It is no longer acceptable (if it ever was) for a professor to enter the first class meeting, distribute copies of the course syllabus, make the first reading assignment and dismiss the students. Successful adjunct professors employ tactics designed specifically to earn students' trust, help students build bonds with each other, and provide them with a realistic view of the course ahead. This program will do that.

Managing Your Teaching Life Effectively

Those successful in any endeavor nearly always display the qualities of being well-organized and effective managers of time. This program provides you with teaching focused tips for achieving these qualities that have been proven by countless successful professors over the years, as well as newer methods enabled by improved technology.

Making Effective Teaching Presentations

Research shows that lecturing remains the most commonly employed teaching method in today's college classroom. While lecturing has been discounted in its effectiveness by many, it is fact that even highly successful professors will lecture sometimes, and use other highly controlled teaching methods. This program provides you with proven methods for employing these methods most effectively.

Implementing Active Learning Strategies in Your Teaching

Effective teaching today is characterized by professors who successfully engage their students in learning. To achieve greater student engagement, creative methods that place more responsibility on the learner are being increasingly employed. Using these methods successfully requires the willingness to experiment, and an understanding of the role changes that these methods require. This program will help you build your comfort zone in this arena.

Infusing Technology into Your Teaching

Distance learning is not the only technology-based teaching tool that has entered today's college teaching environment. Forms of technology that are at our fingertips every day can be employed successfully to increase student engagement in their learning, increase your efficiency, and improve the very critical retention of students.

Developing Effective Examinations

Most of us have vivid memories of a poorly-written or administered examination sometime during our student days. Poor exams create a variety of problems for the adjunct professor, including an erosion of trust by students, less effective learning, and increased student attrition. This program will help you develop and administer exams in a way that provide more effective results.

Employing Authentic Assessment in Your Teaching

Employers of our graduates and graduate schools to which our students matriculate increasingly expect to see students broadly apply their learning to better solve problems - a factor that is often not fostered of even the best exams. You can foster deeper learning by having students employ their learning in a variety of environments - in and out of the classroom. To do so however requires insights that many novice professors do not have.

Bringing Your Course to an Effective Conclusion

Orchestrating an ending to your course that leaves both students and you feeling rewarded is critical to their long-term learning and your achieving accountable rates of student retention. The best professors know that there are rather easy techniques for fostering the type of outcome you desire, and this program provides you with them.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Teaching

Practically all colleges and universities employ some form of formal process for assessing your teaching effectiveness - most of which plays out at, or near, the end of the term. Since the results of the process will typically be the single factor upon which you are invited (or not invited) to return to teach, it is critical that you employ tactics that enable you to identify problems early. You will learn those in this program.

Building Your Adjunct Teaching Career

[Open only to those with Individual Professor subscriptions.] Early on, you articulated a strategy for achieving success in your teaching. If you adhered to your strategy, you likely felt at the end of the term or academic year that you had made significant progress. Teaching part-time provides an array of synergistic opportunities for advancing your career, which this program will explore - helping you attain the quality of rewards that you envision when you started.

All Webinars are archived and may be viewed later by registered participants unable to attend live session, or who want to view it a second time.

Cost: Sold only as a collection, costs are scaled by number of adjunct participants - see the Institutional Clients page.