Teaching@WKU

Access high quality, dynamic professional development including Magna's 20 Minute Mentor videos and Epigeum's mastery courses on college teaching as well as information customized for WKU, such as Teaching via IVS.

Health faculty, for example, will be interested in the Teaching with Patients module.

To Self-Enroll in the Teaching@WKU organization with immediate access.

Log into Blackboard using your Net ID and password at blackboard.wku.edu
Browse to this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7zqempx and hit ENTER
Click on SUBMIT to be added to the Teaching@WKU Organization, and OK to continue inside.
Click on “Start Here” in the menu on the left!

On future visits, you’ll be able to click the My Organizations tab in Blackboard, and Teaching@WKU will be in your organization list!

If you prefer, you can email facet and request to be added to the course site. Please use the subject line Teaching@WKU.

Here are the topics of our Mastery Courses:

Preparing to Teach modules:

Understanding The Principles Of Course Design (you will learn about best principles of designing for education).
Resources to Enhance Student Learning (you will learn about finding, choosing and arranging for students to access course materials such as textbooks).
Developing Your Teaching (you will learn about how to improve as a teacher).

Activities for a Course in Progress:

Lecturing 1 and Lecturing 2 (You will learn how to use lecturing effectively in the first module and learn how to introduce active learning, deal with challenges and work with varied students in the second module).
Making the Most of Discussion (You will learn how to prepare for, initiate, guide, and evaluation face-to-face and online discussions).
Teaching with Patients (While written for medical situations, the general principles of how to plan for and work with students who are working with "others" will apply in many situations).

Assessing Student Performances:

Marking and Giving Feedback (you will learn about helpful, accurate, and effective grading/feedback and general principles for dealing with plagiarism).
Supervising Projects & Dissertations (you will learn about supervising larger student projects, such as senior theses, creative projects, master's theses or dissertations).

Teaching with IVS@WKU (you will learn about the pedagogy and technology of Interactive Video (ITV) classes as well as the importance and ideas for advanced planning). For a quick overview, visit our public page: Teaching via IVS.

Our Mini-Courses, 20 minute or less videos, cover topics including

Preparing to teach (e.g., promoting deep learning, clarify fuzzy goals, learner-centered teaching, feeling burned out, student ratings).
Activities for a course in program (e.g., learning student names, getting student participation, responding to poor answers, assigning students to groups).
Managing student issues (nontraditional students, mental health or substance issues, disability, pushy parents, dismissing students from class, privacy).
Assessing student performance (e.g., interpreting rubrics, using voice feedback).
Technology and Teaching (e.g., cell phones, laptops and facebook; creating threaded discussion; document sharing tools).

Graduate Students seeking recognition by Graduate Studies: Select the Basic Skills for College Teaching link in the left menu for instructions. The Teaching@WKU course is not a part of that process. However, you are welcome to participate in the Teaching@WKU courses as a voluntary activity and to use it as an ongoing resource when teaching at WKU.

The Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching
facet@wku.edu -- Phone (270) 745-6508 -- Fax (270) 745-6145.
Location: 1783 Chestnut Street, Bowling Green, KY 42101.
Mailing Address: 1906 College Heights Blvd #11095, Bowling Green, KY 42101-1095.
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