TEACHING
EXCELLENCE
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Noon, Central Time
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Today’s Presenters
Host Josh Detre
Dr. Margot Rudstrom on teaching to extension audiences
Dr. Kerry Litzenberg on undergraduate teaching
Dr. Michael Wetzstein on graduate teaching
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Dr. Margot Rudstrom on Extension
Teaching
Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Crookston
Teaches undergraduate courses in
• Farm Business Management
• Grain and Livestock Marketing
• International Marketing
• Economics of Agribusiness
Two parts
• Program Development
• Program Delivery
Program Development
• Start with your learner outcome(s)
• Develop your material
– PowerPoints
– Handouts
– Assessments (if possible)
• Test drive your program
Program Delivery
• Know the material
• Be the storyteller
• Stay within your area of expertise
EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
MILLENNIAL STUDENTS
IN AGRIBUSINESS AND
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Kerry Litzenberg
Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence
Regents Professor
Texas A&M University
Foundations for Excellent Teaching
View of Education
Millennial Student
Ag Economics Faculty
Concept of Knowledge
Passion for Learning
Implementing GREAT TEACHING
for Millennials
They have an enormous sense of
accomplishment…..
They know it all
Faculty must motivate them towards
Learning
Bloom’s Taxonomy of LEARNING
How does the learning happen in MY class?
LEARNING
How does the learning happen in AGEC 315 ?
W
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Dr Litz
Students
Dr. Litz/TA AND Students
Students and Industry Professionals
Classroom/Daily Grade Interactions
Read the Textbook
Dr Litz & TA
Downey, Downey, Jackson
VideoLearningInSales.tamu.edu
Follow Along Notes (LITZ)
available at Copy Corner
2307 Texas Ave South
LEARNING
Professional Sales
Presentations (PSS)
Study A SalesPerson (SAS)
ASSESSMENTS How do you know what YOU have Learned?
Impact
Exam 1
100
Exam 2
100
Final Exam
150
Salesperson Shadow 100
Sales Presentation
250
Daily Work
300
TOTAL Assessment 1000
When [See page 5 of Syllabus]
Wednesday, February 17, 2014
Wednesday , March 29, 2014
Mon/Tues May 10,11, 2014
Friday April 9 ( 1st due 2/19)
T/W/R April 17,18,19
What’s Special about the
Millennial Student ?
• The Wanted generation
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“Baby on Board”
Highly Protected and sheltered by Parents
(and authority figures)
“My Mom (Dad) is my best friend ”
These parents have highly (over?) scheduled
Motivated, Goal-Oriented, Assertive, Confident
High Achieving (but never allowed to fail)
Team Oriented (technology based?)
Values formed by the Internet and technology
Enormous sense of Entitlement - “Know it all”
They have changed………………..
http://pewresearch.org/millennials/
HOW “MILLENNIAL” ARE YOU?
View of Careers have changed for Millennials
Incidence of the phrase “Follow Your Passion”
Cal Newport
“People who love what they do for a living,
I found that in most cases their passion
developed slowly, often over unexpected
When current Students started school
and complicated paths.
It's rare, for example, to find someone who loves their career before
they've become very good at it — expertise generates many different
engaging traits, such as respect, impact, autonomy —
and the process of becoming good can be frustrating and take years.” Cal NewPort
Career Capital
That expertise that makes us
INDESPENSIBLE
to our employer
(and to NEW employers and
to NEW career paths)
Can only be build on
EXPERIENCE
“Most people who really love
their job have developed
EXPERTISE over several
years
BEFORE they love their job”
Newport
Malcolm Gladwell in his book ,
“Outliers” says that to build
expertise takes 10,000 hours.
Millennial Orientation
Autonomous
Entitled
Imaginative
Self-Absorbed
Defensive
Abrasive
Myopic
Unfocused
Indifferent
Mgmt Core Competencies
Flexing
Adapting
Incenting
Cultivating
Engaging
Communicatin
Disarming
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Self-Differentiating
Broadening
Directing
Envisioning
Motivating
Teaching
Millennial Orientation
Autonomous
Entitled
Imaginative
Self-Absorbed
Defensive
Abrasive
Myopic
Unfocused
Indifferent
Teaching Competencies
Flexing
Incenting
Cultivating
Engaging
Disarming
Self-Differentiating
Broadening
Directing
Motivating
Try new projects
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Cultivate creativity by example
Deserve an A project
Sharpen the Saw Project
Take Home Box (What did you learn?)
Grade Insurance
Cultivating Creativity
Incenting
 Grade Insurance - My AGEC 315 Take Home Box
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(cost)
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Implementing LEGENDARY TEACHING
for Millennials
Directing
Provide Time Management help
Break up due dates…….
Proposal Due: February 19, 2014
Interview Completed by: April 5, 2014
AGEC 315
FINAL Report DUE: April 9, 2014
Food and Agricultural Sales
Late up to April 16, 2014
Minus 10 point
Spring 2014
Late up to April 23, 2014 - Minus 20
points
TOO LATE AFTER: April 23, 2014
Project will not be accepted after April 23, 2014 – 5p.m.
Students are 24 Hour People………….How much does SCHOOL get?
Broadening
WHAT book
Are YOU
Reading ?
Implementing LEGENDARY TEACHING
for Millennials
Using TECHNOLOGY
with Millennial students
Personal Response Systems – Clickers
Use and Evaluation
Incenting
Engaging
Electronic Internship Experiences
Problems with Internship Experience for Millennial
Students
• Same issues…..don’t want to fail
• Don’t want to move out of comfort zone
• Difficult to move from Passive to Active
• Why move for an internship? Technology brings all
experiences to my doorstep.
Where to from Here……….
Great Teaching is EXCITING
What is the goal of undergraduate education in (agricultural
economics) ???
What has remained constant, however, is that we are an applied profession
that uses economic and business concepts on a problem-set,
within which, the emphasis among the parts of the problem-set
has changed over time” Richard Kilmer 2007 Life time Achievement Award
Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Dr. Michael Wetzstein on The Dos
and Don’t to Effective Teaching
Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
University of Georgia
Teaching Tips (the dos and don’ts)
• Don’t try these in your
classroom without thinking
• One size does not fit all
• TA’s adoption failure
• Not close to being an
exclusive list
• Always be looking for new
teaching methods
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Dos
Develop a special number,
word, or symbol
Mine is the number
5
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Throw things:
chalk
data:image/jpeg;base64
Don’ts
Dos
Extra Credit
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Insult students
Embarrass students
Call them names
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Don’ts
Dos
Motivate vs.
Knowledge
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Political
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Don’ts
Dos
Caring
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Inflict bodily injury
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Don’ts
Dos
Joint problems sets
(encourages students
working together)
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Put the answer
on the test
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Don’ts
Dos
Use up your
goodwill resources
(hard exams)
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Stating 30%
D’s and F’s
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Don’ts
Dos
Incentives to
attend lectures and labs
(pictures, quizzes, and games)
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Taking attendance
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Don’ts
Dos
Teach what is difficult for
students to learn on their
own
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Teach the same
material in all
classes
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Don’ts
Dos
Provide support and
encouragement for
thesis/dissertation
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Write the
thesis/dissertation
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Don’ts
Dos
Referred Publications
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Fun on the farm
Don’ts
One Final Tip
• Three learning styles
• Listening
• Reading
• Examples
• The objective is to teach in all of these styles in a very
caring and motivational manner
Reply
Wanted an opportunity to reply
to four teaching tips
Teaching materials (textbook)
Not dead
Develop your notes into a
manual for students
Teaching preparation
Two hour prep time for an
hour lecture
Motivation is the key
The lecture method is dead
Teaching caring
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