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A Teaching-Mentorship Model

A Teaching-Mentorship Model. UKCGE Annual Conference July 3, 2014 Christon George Arthur. Andrews University’s Academic Identity. Essentially a Graduate Identity: 49% of On-campus student body 72+ graduate degree programs

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A Teaching-Mentorship Model

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  1. A Teaching-Mentorship Model UKCGE Annual Conference July 3, 2014 Christon George Arthur

  2. Andrews University’s Academic Identity Essentially a Graduate Identity: • 49% of On-campus student body • 72+ graduate degree programs • University status after Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary and Potomac University merged with Emmanuel Missionary College • DRU – only Seventh-day Adventist institution with this Carnegie classification • The Seventh-day Adventist Flagship Institution

  3. Andrews University offers 72+ graduate Degrees • 9 PhDs • Religion: NT, OT, Miss, CH, Ad Studies, Theological Studies • Archeology: Biblical & Ancient Near Eastern • Religious Education • Educational Leadership (K-12) • Higher Education Administration • Leadership • Curriculum & Instruction • Educational Psychology • Counseling Psychology C. 6 Educational Specialists • Educational Leadership (K-12) • Higher Education Administration • Leadership • Curriculum & Instruction • School Psychology • Counseling Psychology • 9 Professional Doctorates • DPT • DScPT • Th.D. • DMin • DNP • EdD: C&I • EdD: Higher Ed Administration • EdD: Ed Leadership (K-12) • EdD: Ed Psych D. 49 Master’s Degrees

  4. Philosophy of Graduate Education • Shared intellectual interests of faculty and students • Support emerging areas of inquiry that transcend disciplines and are of special interest to the best students • Faculty scholarship enhanced by opportunities to participate in interdisciplinarity • All Graduate faculty have opportunity to work with graduate students.

  5. The Problem • For 30+ years our doctoral programs have prepared teacher-scholars to be content experts • They are content experts lacking in pedagogy • 21st century teacher-scholars need to be steeped in: • Theories of learning • Lesson preparation and delivery • Assessment • Research-informed teaching

  6. From: Silo Mentality

  7. To: Interdisciplinarity

  8. PhD The Vision

  9. Implementation • The Teacher-Mentorship Program integrates content expertise and pedagogy via modeling and mentoring • Program pairs doctoral student with mentor • First semester, student is teaching assistant of the mentor who models effective teaching • Second semester, student is the teacher of record under the guidance of the mentor • Subsequent semesters, student is the teacher of record with less supervision from the mentor teacher

  10. Challenges • Funding • Costly to reduce faculty load to mentor students • Costly to have two teachers (fulltime faculty and protégé) in a classroom • Competing Philosophy • Some departments insist that full professors should teach first year students • Ethics of ‘apprenticeship’ – does it reduce quality? • Time • Investment in faculty members’ time • Investment in students’ time

  11. Getting our Ducks in a Row

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