CANCELLED

Overcoming the 5 Most Common Student Complaints on Teacher Evaluation Surveys at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. 

As a teaching mentor at the Robinson College of Business and business schools globally, Dr. Brightman has reviewed thousands of student evaluations of instructors and observed a pattern to poor evaluations. This workshop focuses on fixing these student evaluation-destroying complaints.

Dr. Brightman has taught formal courses and workshops on collegiate-level teaching to doctoral students and faculty from the University System of Georgia, across the nation, and the world.  He presently serves as the Robinson College teaching mentor and has worked with more than 55 faculty members. He has also mentored at many other schools, including Emory University, University of North Carolina, University of Maryland, Rochester Institute of Technology, CEIBS (Shanghai), and Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane). 

When: April 19-20, 2023, 1:00PM – 4:30PM EST daily

Location: Zoom

Fee: $649 US

REGISTRATION CLOSES - April 15th

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Who Should Attend: Faculty interested in increasing student evalation ratings

Program

Dr. Brightman will share many simple strategies that minimize the most common student complaints; disorganized courses, confusing lectures, too many slides, lengthy slides, and lack of class participation. These simple fixes will also improve your students’ classroom performance and experience.

Course Schedule

Day 1  

• Design course frameworks that will show your students the course’s organization.
• Write serious learning objectives. 
• Generate critical thinking level classroom discussions.

Day 2

• Reduce your number of slides. 
• Deliver clear and memorable presentations.
• Clean up your slides and minimize reading them.  
• Present a group structure that generates critical thinking level discussions.

Program Faculty

Dr. Brightman’s honors include the 1984 College of Business Alumni Distinguished Professor and the 1992 Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor. Both awards are given to the outstanding teacher and scholar at the college and university level.  Dr. Brightman also received the 1998 University System of Georgia Regents' Teaching Excellence Award as the outstanding teacher in the university’s four major research institutions.  

Dr. Brightman’s programs have attracted over 1,400 participants worldwide. In addition, he has presented over 120 on-site teaching workshops worldwide. Finally, he served as the semester-long teaching mentor for over 50 colleagues at GSU from 1999 to ttoday and has done short-term mentoring at over 50 colleges worldwide. 

Instructions to Register for the Course

To register, click the ENROLL button below.

The course registration is processed using Canvas Catalog, which is primarily used by internal GSU groups, and commonly uses language to describe an internal user, like "Campus ID." If you are not using a GSU CampusID / password to register, you may use a personal or business email address. If the system recognizes your personal/business email address (e.g., because you have already used Canvas while part of the RCB community), you will need to sign in using the original password you established or you will need to reset the password. 

To trouble-shoot registering / signing-in, or to access the course, please follow these steps:

·     Visit https://gsu.catalog.instructure.com

·     GSU faculty/staff/Current student: Click “Login” in the upper-right and enter your CampusID and password

·     Non-GSU participants: Click “Non-GSU Login” in the upper-right, enter your full email address as CampusID, and then the password you have set up. If you have forgotten your password, click "Forgot Password?" and enter your email address as CampusID. The system will send you instructions to reset your password.

·     If you have tried these steps and are still having difficulty, please accept our apology and email Shelley Nelson snelson30@gsu.edu for assistance.