January is a good time to reflect on your accomplishments from the previous academic year. Many of us in academia have to provide annual reports on our progress as faculty. From personal experience, I feel that we undersell the work we do as teachers. Here are some things that are worth highlighting with regard to your teaching practice.

1. 7 THINGS TO HIGHLIGHT TO
YOUR UNIVERSITY ABOUT
YOUR TEACHING PRACTICE
Professor Kristen Sosulski, Ed.D
New York University Stern School of Business
@sosulski ks123@nyu.edu kristensosulski.com

2. Introduction
• January is a good time to reflect on your
accomplishments from the previous academic year.
• Many of us in academia have to provide annual
reports on our progress as faculty.
• From personal experience, I feel that we undersell the
work we do as teachers.
• Here are some things that are worth highlighting with
regard to your teaching practice.
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3. Here are 7 activities to
highlight
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4. Activities to highlight
1. Guest speaking
2. Nifty PowerPoints
3. Guest experts
4. Video tutorials
5. Collaborations with the teaching and learning center
6. Class site visits
7. Online and digital learning
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5. 1. Guest Speaking
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6. Be sure to note any
positive feedback,
especially if you were
asked to return for
future classes.
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Did you fill in for a colleague to
deliver a guest lecture?

7. 2. Nifty PowerPoints
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8. Did you redesign some of your
course materials?
For example, you may have
included additional data
visualizations and graphical
illustrations in your PowerPoint
presentations.
This is worth noting if you feel that
these changes improved your
preparedness, communication,
and ultimately the students’
understanding of the materials
presented.
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9. 3. Guest experts
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10. Did you invite guest lecturers or
experts into the classroom?
Describe their roles and
interactions with students.
For example, guests may
have provided students
with a new perspective, or
authentic feedback on
their work.
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11. 4. Video tutorials
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12. Many faculty use video tutorials to
help students learn new software,
as opposed to using valuable
class time for live demonstrations.
With this method, class time can
be preserved for discussion,
further practice, and application.
This technique is commonly
referred to as the “flipped
classroom.”
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Did you create or present a video in your
classroom to help students learn a
process or task more effectively?

13. 5. Collaborations with your
school’s teaching and learning
center
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14. It’s important to highlight
these conversations,
even if you are still in
the ideation phase.
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Have you met with an educational
technologist to discuss new ways to apply
innovative technologies to your course?

15. 6. Class site visits
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16. Note examples of what
was learned from these
events, as well as some
feedback from the
students.
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Did you take your students out of the classroom
to visit a company, museum, etc., to observe a
process, artifacts, or phenomena?

17. 7. Digital and online learning
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18. Maybe you set up group work spaces
for your students, or used discussion
forums to facilitate reflection and
conversation.
Some faculty members have even
created fully online classes, or online
resources and lessons to complement
their face-to-face courses.
Note your progress towards
becoming a professor in the digital
age.
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Have you created a digital version of
your course for your school’s learning
management system?

19. Reflect on your practice and highlight these
powerful ways of teaching and learning
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1. Guest speaking
2. Nifty PowerPoints
3. Guest experts
4. Video tutorials
5. Collaborations with the teaching and learning center
6. Class site visits
7. Online and digital learning

20. As professors, we consciously improve
our practice. Share your experiences
with others to help others learn and
evolve their practice. If there are
activities that you are not doing, consider
trying the out in your practices and ask
others about their experiences.
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21. Are there other activities faculty should highlight about
their teaching? Share your comments on the blog post
that accompanies this presentation:
http://www.kristensosulski.com/2016/01/the-innovative-
teaching-professor
Also feel free to contact me on twitter @sosulski.
Questions? Comments?
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22. Thank you!
Professor Kristen Sosulski, Ed.D
New York University Stern School of Business
@sosulski ks123@nyu.edu kristensosulski.com