CIT 2006 - WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2006

Be All You Can Be - Teach!

Instructor: Tara Gray
Director of the Teaching Academy
New Mexico State University

Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: TBA
Rating: Introductory
Cost: $75

Every teacher should take specific, concrete steps to flourish in the classroom; however, these steps are not the same for everyone. In this workshop, Tara Gray presents her own twelve steps based on twenty years of full-time teaching. Her steps include:

Content

Step 1: Answer the key questions of course design.
Step 2: Teach to one sentence every day.
Step 3: Limit lectures to 15 minutes.
Step 4: Let your readings share the lectern.

Students

Step 5: Hold students accountable daily.
Step 6: Push your students–but not overboard.
Step 7: Learn to love them.
Step 8: Take responsibility for your class.

You: Sharpen Your Saw

Step 9: Use the first few minutes after class each day to write down the changes you will make the next time you teach the day’s material.
Step 10: Use mid-term evaluations to start a dialog with your class.
Step 11: Get yourself to “class.”
Step 12: Write your own steps for teaching success.

As you hear Tara's presentation, decide what specific, concrete steps you should take in the classroom to be all that you can be. Draft the steps you personally want to take, share them with others and hear the steps they have written. Finally, go forth and flourish: Be All You Can Be–Teach!

Registrants are not required to attend CIT to participate in this workshop (although we really think you'll WANT to!). Register for this workshop!

About the Instructor:

TARA GRAY serves as associate professor of criminal justice and as the first director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The Teaching Academy provides NMSU educators with training, mentoring, and networking.

Tara was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Southwestern College in Kansas and Oklahoma State, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics by asking, “Do prisons pay?” She taught economics at Denison University before joining the Department of Criminal Justice at NMSU. She has published three books, including her most recent, Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at NMSU and nationally with six awards for teaching or service.

Tara has presented faculty development workshops to 2,000 participants in more than twenty of the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, and Thailand. Workshop participants report that she is “spirited, entertaining, and informative—she’s anything but gray!”

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