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PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
"TEACHING BOOTCAMP"

The OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators, in cooperation with the Midwest Academy of Management, is offering a "Teaching Bootcamp" for doctoral students and new instructors (tenure track and clinical faculty). The Bootcamp will be offered as a 5-hour preconference workshop to the Southern Management Association on Wednesday, October 27, 2010.  Four major topic areas will be covered in the workshop:
·     Basic principles of how people learn

·     Fundamental elements of teaching-designing a course, preparing a syllabus, designing elements to measure learning.

·     Conducting an effective classroom: teaching techniques (lecture, role play and case), and classroom management issues

·     Coping with classroom challenges to avoid disasters: understanding important choices and tradeoffs to assure successful performance



The workshop will be highly interactive, and will be facilitated by experienced, award-winning faculty who are members of the OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators.  The workshop is suitable for ALL novice instructors who are, or will be, assigned to teach courses in organizational behavior, human resources, and related management disciplines.



There will be an enrollment fee of $55 for the workshop, which will cover workshop handouts, a binder of articles on effective teaching techniques, and a one year membership to the OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators, which also includes a one -year subscription to the Journal of Management Education. Registrants must contact the Workshop Coordinator to pre-register (below); registrants will also be required to register for the Southern Management Association meeting.



Interested parties should contact Roy Lewicki, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Lewicki_1@fisher.osu.edu