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OBTS/MED Pre-Conference: Teaching in a New Time

  • 1.  OBTS/MED Pre-Conference: Teaching in a New Time

    Posted 07-31-2000 19:46
    To Those attending the Academy in Toronto:

    Bryan Mundell (of Bocconi University in Milan) and I would like to
    invite you to spend your early Sunday morning with us in a workshop
    jointly sponsored by MED and the Organizational Behavior Teaching
    Society. Sunday (in many cultures) is a time for reflection - an
    appropriate day for reflecting on our beliefs about teaching. If this
    interests you read on....

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    >MED/OBTS Teaching in a New Time: Reviewing and renewing personal
    >approaches to management education.
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    >Time - 8.00-10.00 a.m.
    Room - Dominion Ballroom S

    "A new time for management education" means new ways of educating
    managers. For individual educators new ways must be grounded in an
    understanding of our beliefs, assumptions and values, in short, our
    philosophy of teaching and learning. Participants in this workshop
    will be led through a structured process to make explicit their own
    philosophies of teaching and underlying assumptions about students,
    goals, content, time frames and location of learning experiences.
    From a critique of those assumptions can come new directions in
    individual approaches to teaching. Participants will leave the
    workshop with a draft statement of teaching philosophy (useful not
    only in teaching but in job searches and tenure reviews!)

    The objective of this session is to enable participants from any
    discipline and any level of experience to make explicit their own
    philosophies of teaching. This is seen primarily as a means to
    enhancing teacher effectiveness. (Secondarily it can be very valuable
    when undertaking job searches and/or promotion/tenure reviews.) They
    will be challenged to critically assess the applicability of existing
    philosophies for the time ahead.

    Two individuals will present the workshop:
    who are at different career stages (one early one late and who was
    the recipient of the 1998 OBTS Distinguished Educator Award);
    who primarily teach in two very different settings (one in the US,
    one in Italy; one primarily undergraduate, one MBA);
    with two different but overlapping, orientations (one more "micro",
    the other more "macro".)

    This workshop will accomplish its objective by leading participants
    through a structured process designed to surface participants':
    beliefs about the goals of education,
    assumptions about students,
    assumptions about the settings and technologies for teaching, and
    considerations in selection of course content.

    Participants will leave the workshop with a draft statement of the
    elements of their own philosophy and a paragraph defining and
    expanding each element of that philosophy.

    Please join us at

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    Chris Poulson
    Professor of Management and Human Resources
    California State Polytechnic University Pomona
    Pomona, CA 91768

    cfpoulson@csupomona.edu
    cpoulson@deltanet.com
    909-869-2415 office
    909-869-4353 office fax
    909-624-0874 home
    909-624-9906 home fax
    http://www.csupomona.edu/~mhr/cfpoulson/

    Mail: P.O. Box 339, Claremont, CA 91711-0339

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