Instructor - Joan Krenzin
Office - 105 Grise Hall                                        Phone  745-2159
Office Hours
     M  3:00-4:00
     T  9:00-10:30, 2:00-4:00
    Th  9:00-10:30
Home - 1330 South Lee                                          Phone  842-1973
e-mail  joan.krenzin@wku.edu
Krenzin web page  http://www.msc.wku.edu/~joan.krenzin/joan.htm

Text
Sacks, Peter. 1996. Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-opening Account of Teaching in
  Postmodern America. Chicago, IL: Open Court.

Course Objectives
     This course should provide assistance to the beginning instructor in setting goals, defining objectives, organizing a course, presenting material, leading discussion, enlivening the course, dealing with interpersonal relations, constructing tests, evaluating student performance, and evaluating his/her own performance.

Tentative Schedule
1/12  Introduction, goal setting, textbook selection
1/26  Goals and objectives (cognitive, affective, skill)
      Assignment - Write a statement telling why you selected the textbook you chose.  This
      statement need not be more than a couple paragraphs.
 2/2  Lecture building - organization and concept development
      *Assignment - List 25 goals for a course in Introductory Sociology.  There should be some
      goals representing each of the three types.
 2/9  Test construction and item analysis
      Assignment - Turn in file folders for first five chapters of your text.
2/16  Writing across the curriculum
      *Assignment - Construct test items.
          Five multiple choice with four options each (Construct at least one knowledge, one
               comprehension, one application, and one analysis item.  Label them.  Indicate
               the answers.)
          Five true-false (Include the first four levels of the taxonomy here also.  Label
               them.  Indicate the answers.)
          Five matching
          Four completion (not fill-in-the-blank)
          Two essay  (Indicate the criteria you would use in grading each essay: that is, tell
               what the answer should include.)
2/23  Use of films and videos
      Assignment - Write an introduction to a film or video, therein creating interest in what
      is to be seen and helping students know what to look for.  Then compose five (plus or
      minus) questions to guide the discussion following the film or video.
 3/1  Replicating and designing experiments
      Assignment - Write an introduction to a film or video, therin creating interest in what
      is to be seen and helping students know what to look for.  Then compose five (plus or
      minus) questions to guide the discussion following the film or video.
 3/8  Guiding class discussion
      Assignment - Design an in-class or out-of-class experiment to be conducted by/with
      students.
3/22  Evaluation of both students and instructors
      Assignment - Turn in file folders for the next five chapters of your text.
3/29  Discuss Generation X Goes to College.
      Assignment - Prepare five questions for class discussion of the book.
 4/5  Psychology of learning
      Assignment - Construct a list of questions you have about teaching.  These will be
      distributed to all faculty and teaching associates prior to our meeting with them on
      April 22th.
4/12  Constructing a syllabus
4/19  Meeting at with sociology faculty to discuss issues in teaching
      Assignment - Turn in file folders for the remaining chapters.
4/27  Use of computers in teaching
      Assignment - Design a course syllabus for your class for next semester.

     *Assignments on these two dates are due by 9:00 a.m. in order that they may be
      duplicated for class discussion.  As an alternative you may bring coies for the entire
      class.

      Returned assignments may be rewritten and turned in to be regraded within two weeks of
      the day on which they were returned.  The deadline for additions to the file folders
      is April 10.  The deadllne for the rewrite of the syllabus is 1:00 Thursday, May 8.

Course Requirements and Grading (tentative)
Points  Assignment
  50    File Folders  (Label a manilla file folder for each chapter in the text you chose.
        Collect newspaper clippings, activities, experiments, illustrations, anecdotes,
        overhead transparencies, lists of appropriate films and videos, etc. to aid your
        teaching of that material.)
  40    Preparation of the class lecture, discussion, and handouts for one topic on the course
        syllabus for this graduate course.
  40    Preparation of the class lecture, discussion, and handouts for one topic on the course
        syllabus for this graduate course.
  15    Test item construction
   8    Written directions for a written assignment
   9    Film or video introduction and discussion
   8    Design of experiment to be conducted by students
   5    Attendance at CTL session
   5    Attendance at CTL session
   5    Attendance at CTL session
   5    Attendance at CTL session
   5    Observation of a Sociology 100 class
   5    Observation of a Sociology 100 class
   5    Participation in a simulation game from 10:55 to 12:20 on Thursday, January 29 or from
        11:00 to 12:15 on Tuesday, March 9.
   5    Attendance at a CTL session
   5    Attendance at a CTL session
   5    Attendance at a CTL session
   5    Attendance at a CTL session
  40    Participation in class, which will, on occasion, involve a written assignment that will
        not be graded.  Examples include the course goals and the statement on textbook
        selection.  It will also include discussion of the book assigned for this class.
  20    Teaching a one-hour class in Introductory Sociology.  (For this particular
        assignment the full 20 points will be awarded for simply completing the assignment
        and discussing it with the instructor afterwards.)
  30    Course syllabus (final exam)
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Created December 4, 2000
Last modified Janujary 9, 2004
Copyright since 2000 by Joan Krenzin
Comments should be mailed to joan.krenzin@wku.edu