Win Them Over Faster: Dynamic Techniques for College Adjuncts and New Faculty

Whether you are teaching English, computer programming, or welding, brand new college teachers have the same questions. How do I get students to class? How do I get them to do their homework? How do I motivate them to get serious about their own learning? How do I grade fairly and not have it consume my time? How do I handle the really troublesome students? How do I grade group projects? Why does my discussion go nowhere? What about the college assessment plans they've asked me to do? The committees they've asked me to join? The curriculum I have to change? How do I even start to build a whole curriculum for a course? Why is there so much pressure for retention? How do I retain students who won't work hard? How do I get them to give their full effort? We all started out with these questions. Great college teaching doesn't just happen. Normally, it takes years of trial and error mistakes, successes, and redirects to build up the right skills. Meanwhile, students (our customers) are still paying full price to be taught. But they aren't any more patient with a stumbling teacher than a corporation would be with a stumbling welder, editor, or programmer. And believe me, when classes do not go well the teacher him/herself is not having a good day either. We have all been there and have the t-shirt. Teaching is a Skill. It can be learned. But orientations to new college teaching positions talk more about benefits and computer usage than give useful information about teaching our quite demanding modern students. Few colleges actually train college teachers to teach. Instead, new teachers are thrown in the classroom and expected to succeed from day one. What company would throw a brand new welder or computer programmer loose on their first day with paying customers? Not one. But college? That's standard procedure. Welcome to the Teaching Orientation everyone should have received. Win Them Over Faster presents the 14 essential skills outstanding college teachers master. It's practical. Useful. Blunt. No fluff added. Learn how to develop curriculum and classes which motivate students to take responsibility. Win Them Over Faster will help you keep students attentive, engaged, and learning. Whether you are an experienced or novice instructor, Win Them Over Faster will help you create more student involvement and enrich your own experience as an educator. After all, there really is no need to learn through painful trial and error when you can draw on someone else's long experience. Win Them Over Faster provides the advice, help and practical training you need to become a confident, skilled college teacher quickly. Read it today. Apply it in your classroom tomorrow.