TEACHING EXCELLENCETuesday, January 7, 2014

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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 TEACHINGMILLENNIAL STUDENTS IN AGRIBUSINESS AND AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Kerry Litzenberg

Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence

Regents Professor

Texas A&M University

Millennial Student

Foundations for Excellent Teaching

Concept of Knowledge

Ag Economics Faculty

View of Education

Passion for Learning

They have an enormous sense of accomplishment….. They know it all

Faculty must motivate them towards

Learning

Implementing GREAT TEACHINGfor Millennials

Bloom’s Taxonomy of LEARNING

How does the learning happen in MY class?

LEARNING

How does the learning happen in AGEC 315 ?

Read the TextbookDowney, Downey, Jackson

Follow Along Notes (LITZ) available at Copy Corner 2307 Texas Ave South

W Dr LitzH StudentsO Dr. Litz/TA AND Students? Students and Industry Professionals

Professional SalesPresentations (PSS)

Study A SalesPerson (SAS)

ASSESSMENTS How do you know what YOU have Learned?Impact When [See page 5 of Syllabus]

Exam 1 100 Wednesday, February 17, 2014 Exam 2 100 Wednesday , March 29, 2014 Final Exam 150 Mon/Tues May 10,11, 2014 Salesperson Shadow 100 Friday April 9 ( 1st due 2/19) Sales Presentation 250 T/W/R April 17,18,19 Daily Work 300 TOTAL Assessment 1000

LEARNING

Classroom/Daily Grade Interactions

Dr Litz & TA

VideoLearningInSales.tamu.edu

What’s Special about the Millennial Student ?

• The Wanted generation “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”

HOW “MILLENNIAL” ARE YOU?

http://pewresearch.org/millennials/

They have changed………………..

View of Careers have changed for Millennials Incidence of the phrase “Follow Your Passion” Cal Newport

When current Students started school

“People who love what they do for a living, I found that in most cases their passion developed slowly, often over unexpectedand 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

That expertise that makes us INDESPENSIBLE to our employer (and to NEW employers and to NEW career paths)

Career Capital

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 Incenting Cultivating Engaging Disarming Self-Differentiating Broadening Directing

Motivating

Adapting

Envisioning

Communicating

Millennial Orientation Autonomous Entitled Imaginative Self-Absorbed Defensive Abrasive Myopic Unfocused

Indifferent

Teaching Competencies Flexing Incenting Cultivating Engaging Disarming Self-Differentiating Broadening Directing

Motivating

Teaching

Try new projects

• Deserve an A project• Sharpen the Saw Project• Take Home Box (What did you learn?)• Grade Insurance

Cultivating Creativity

Cultivate creativity by example

Grade Insurance - My AGEC 315 Take Home Box Grade Insurance: Premium (cost) Complete the following to show the concepts from AGEC 315 that you feel will be most

helpful in your career. Write a short description of each concept and the date in class you “discovered” that this concept would be helpful to your career. You must record at least 5 take home concepts to satisfy the grade insurance.

Value: you will receive 8 points added to your final point total for completing the grade insurance. Due: April 21, 2010 Describe the Concept you think will be of most value in your career. 1. (date_________)______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. (date_________)____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. (date_________)______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. (date_________) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. (date_________) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. (date_________)______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. (date_________) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. (date_________) _____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________

Grade Insurance - My AGEC 315 Take Home BoxGrade Insurance: Premium (cost) Complete the following to show the concepts from AGEC 315 that you

feel will be most helpful in your career. Write a short description of each concept and the date in class you “discovered” that this concept would be helpful to your career. You must record at least 5 take home concepts to satisfy the grade insurance.

Value: you will receive 8 points added to your final point total for completing the grade insurance.Due: November 21, 2013Describe the Concept you think will be of most value in your career.1. (date_________)___________________________________________________________________

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2. (date____)_________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________3. (date_________)____________________________________________________________________

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4. (date_________) ___________________________________________________________________

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5. (date_________) ____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________6. (date_________)___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________7. (date_________) ____________________________________________________________________

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Incenting

Provide Time Management help

Implementing LEGENDARY TEACHINGfor Millennials Directing

Break up due dates…….Proposal Due: February 19, 2014

Interview Completed by: April 5, 2014 AGEC 315 FINAL Report DUE: April 9, 2014Food and Agricultural Sales Late up to April 16, 2014

Minus 10 pointSpring 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 bookAre YOU Reading ?

Implementing LEGENDARY TEACHINGfor Millennials

Using TECHNOLOGY

with Millennial students

Personal Response Systems – Clickers

IncentingEngaging

Use and Evaluation

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 AwardSouthern Agricultural Economics Association

Dr. Michael Wetzstein on The Dos and Don’t to Effective Teaching

Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity 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

Don’ts

Develop a special number,word, or symbol

Mine is the number

5 Throw things:chalk

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Dos

Don’ts

Extra Credit

Insult studentsEmbarrass studentsCall them names

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Dos

Don’ts

Political

Motivate vs.Knowledge

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Dos

Don’ts

Inflict bodily injury

Caring

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Dos

Don’ts

Put the answer on the test

Joint problems sets(encourages studentsworking together)

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Dos

Don’ts

Stating 30% D’s and F’s

Use up your goodwill resources(hard exams)

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Dos

Don’ts

Taking attendance

Incentives toattend lectures and labs(pictures, quizzes, and games)

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Dos

Don’ts

Teach the same material in all classes

Teach what is difficult for students to learn on their own

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Dos

Don’ts

Write the thesis/dissertation

Provide support and encouragement for thesis/dissertation

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Dos

Don’ts

Fun on the farm

Referred Publications

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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 deadDevelop your notes into a manual for students

Teaching preparationTwo hour prep time for an hour lectureMotivation is the key

The lecture method is deadTeaching caring

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