Nonjudgmental Rigor & Professor Presence Workshop

• December 6th - 10:00 am - 3:00 pm - ETSU, Johnson City, room TBA

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Enrollment will be strictly limited to 20 participants.
To register, please e-mail Sandy McFarlin at sandy.mcfarlin@rcenter.org

Dr. Andrea Sanders is an Associate Professor of English at Chattanooga State where she is also the RODP campus contact. She is a WebCT Certified Senior Trainer, has developed several courses in the RODP and serves as an RODP Faculty Mentor and a member of the RODP Curriculum Committee. Dr. David White is a Professor of English at Walters State. He is a member of the RODP Curriculum Committee and has developed several RODP courses. Andrea and David are exciting speakers who have a depth of understanding and wide experience in online instruction.

Workshop Agenda

Nonjudgmental Rigor: A Definition and Elaboration

• How to project professionalism online.
• How to be a mediator and mentor.
• How to acknowledge and celebrate the learning community.
• Examples from the online class archives

Professor Presence: The Promise of Asynchronous Teaching

• How to make learning broader and deeper.
• How to make teaching more reflective and deliberate.
• How to achieve a broader, more comprehensive view of the course through "visible teaching."
• How to enhance course content across semesters so that the course becomes a "moveable feast."
• How to make teaching a performance which is practiced rather than spontaneous.
• How to achieve "aesthetic distance" for a wider perspective.
• How to recognize an external symptom of an internal sea change.
• How to collaborate with others teaching the class.
• How to project a "professor persona" as a better version of yourself.