Are you getting ready to interview for a teaching position at a college or university (or at a K-12 institution that is wise enough to ask for a teaching demonstration? Then you may wonder how to 'wow' them so that you are offered the position. If you want to be sure to do an A+ demonstration (even when you only have 30 minutes to 'show your stuff') then consider the following ideas, which are not presented in any particular order:
1. You are better to convey one or two ideas REALLY well than 8 or 9 ideas poorly. Focus on your real message.
2. When planning your teaching demonstration, ask yourself the following questions:
You don't have to tell your participants what your Know, Feel, & Do goals are, but it helps you to focus your thinking and your preparation.
3. Engage your learners. Avoid the lecture - because you know you would not teach by using only lecture format with students. If you are going to lecture for a portion of the time you have for your teaching demonstration, make it brief, interspersed with something that involves your learners.
4. Use PowerPoint - but ONLY a FEW slides that are mostly graphics not words. You want to show them what you would do with the students and you don't want anyone to imagine that your technique would be the 'wall of words' format. Ugh and Bo-ring.
5. Be your real self. That's who they are hiring. Be who you are because that is who they will love and want to hire (I am assuming that only really cool people are reading this article).
6. Provide closure vs. just 'ending.' Find out what they learned - and there are variety of ways to determine that. It can be as simple as asking, 'what was the main concept you learned tonight?' or 'What are the 2 best ideas you heard here?'
And, of course, keep your positive thinking hat on! Positive thinking is certainly preferable to negative thinking! I think you should be in this frame of mind when you head into your teaching demonstration.
1. You are better to convey one or two ideas REALLY well than 8 or 9 ideas poorly. Focus on your real message.
2. When planning your teaching demonstration, ask yourself the following questions:
- What do I want people to KNOW as a result of my teaching?
- What do I want people to FEEL as a result of my teaching?
- What do I want people do DO result of my teaching?
You don't have to tell your participants what your Know, Feel, & Do goals are, but it helps you to focus your thinking and your preparation.
3. Engage your learners. Avoid the lecture - because you know you would not teach by using only lecture format with students. If you are going to lecture for a portion of the time you have for your teaching demonstration, make it brief, interspersed with something that involves your learners.
4. Use PowerPoint - but ONLY a FEW slides that are mostly graphics not words. You want to show them what you would do with the students and you don't want anyone to imagine that your technique would be the 'wall of words' format. Ugh and Bo-ring.
5. Be your real self. That's who they are hiring. Be who you are because that is who they will love and want to hire (I am assuming that only really cool people are reading this article).
6. Provide closure vs. just 'ending.' Find out what they learned - and there are variety of ways to determine that. It can be as simple as asking, 'what was the main concept you learned tonight?' or 'What are the 2 best ideas you heard here?'
And, of course, keep your positive thinking hat on! Positive thinking is certainly preferable to negative thinking! I think you should be in this frame of mind when you head into your teaching demonstration.
And as a current or future college or university faculty member, you have many opportunities for success and failure. If you would like additional tips, tools, and techniques that you can use to support your successes, then access one or both of the following free resource websites:
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