Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career

Advice about how to teach is plentiful, but what about professional development to help you be a teacher?

Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career is a 6-hour Magna Online Course designed to touch on many of the non-classroom aspects of teaching at a higher education institution. Learn from experts about topics such as:

• Scholarship
• Citizenship
• Maintaining energy and enthusiasm
• Collaboration
• Grant writing
• Extending your research beyond campus to the public

Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career focuses on important details that faculty must manage in addition to teaching for success in a career in higher education. Experience the benefit from hearing practical advice from experienced educators. Each section— teach, grow, and reach —contains short programs that cover highly important questions and topics related to what it means to be a teacher.

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Learning Goals

After completing Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career, you’ll be able to:

• Acquire motivation and helpful advice to improve teaching
• Designate time periods for learning, based on difficulty and time of semester
• Create a realistic plan for achieving your teaching and growth goals
• Explore how and where collaboration is appropriate, and how to get the most out of collaboration
• Learn to create relationships with student assistants that are mutually beneficial
• Be more effective in citizenship responsibilities and take an active role on campus
• Recognize the obligation research professors have to their students to be the very best scholar they can be
• Comprehend the vast possibilities for video creation and promotion
• Implement 10 steps to start a podcast, including defining the intended purpose, audience, and format
• Discover how to find resources for available grant opportunities and align research with funder objectives
• Understand how to evaluate your career, guidelines for successful transitions, and how to pivot to your next opportunity

Teachers, this is your specifically catered guide to help you manage your career and receive expert advice about the non-teaching aspects of your job descriptions! Learn how to better fulfill many aspects of your faculty responsibilities and grow within your profession with Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career.

This asynchronous course also features transcripts, note-taking guides, supplementary materials, and regular assessments to enhance your learning, as well as a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

Who Will Benefit From This Course:

• Faculty
• Educational Developers

Group Enrollment:

Discount pricing is available for multiple seats purchased at the same time.
For 10 or more seats, please contact Magna Sales at sales@magnapubs.com or call 800-433-0499 ext. 183 to receive a customized quote.

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The course enrollment will expire one year from date of purchase.

Product Code: PO21CA

Meet Your Presenters

Ken Alford, PhD
Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

Lolita Paff, PhD
Associate Professor, Penn State Berks

Jill Schiefelbein
Owner, The Dynamic Communicator

Anthony Sweat, PhD
Associate Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

Holly Klawitter, MBA

Deborah Biddle
Owner, The People Company