Job Talk Assistant Professor of Mathematics in Liberal Arts College
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2013 Jump; 12(ane): 12–eighteen.
The Instruction Demonstration: What Faculty Expect and How to Set for This Aspect of the Job Interview
Michelle K. Smith
*School of Biology and Environmental, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5751
†Research in STEM Teaching Middle, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5751
Mary Pat Wenderoth
‡Department of Biological science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1800
Mary Tyler
†Research in STEM Education Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5751
Linnea Fletcher, Monitoring Editor
Received 2012 Sep 14; Revised 2012 November 18; Accepted 2013 Jan two.
Abstruse
Many institutions require candidates for faculty positions to present a teaching demonstration as part of the interview process. To assist chore candidates prepare for this and to assist departments in planning how to structure this portion of the interview, we surveyed biology faculty from community and liberal arts colleges and chief's- and PhD-granting institutions concerning how their departments assess teaching potential. We besides asked survey respondents to share communication on how candidates can prepare for teaching demonstrations. Here nosotros report on the survey results and offer suggestions based on comments from respondents.
INTRODUCTION
It is an all-too-familiar scenario: The job candidate for a biology department faculty position gives an outstanding enquiry seminar, showing skill in formulating a hypothesis, carrying out meaningful research, analyzing information, forming conclusions, and translating work into the larger movie of science and society—information technology is an effective demonstration of the process of science. All the same, during the teaching demonstration portion of the interview, rather than engaging the audition in the learning process, the candidate delivers a presentation with too many slides, each of which is packed with factual information. The candidate interprets all the graphs and data for the audience, presents conclusions, and merely intermittently asks whether the audition has any questions. Furthermore, the task candidate expects the audition to sit passively and absorb knowledge. In short, the candidate shows fiddling ability to help others learn the process of science.
The wide discrepancy between the quality of the job candidate'southward research talk and teaching demonstration indicates inadequate preparation for the teaching component of the task interview. There are a number of reasons that tin can explain lack of preparation, just ii major ones are: one) not knowing what is expected during the teaching demonstration and 2) a lack of effective exercise of the desired skill. Though each job candidate has been attending class since he or she was a child, few have had enough practice teaching, and fifty-fifty fewer have delineated the crucial aspects of effective teaching.
To help task candidates better understand faculty expectations of the pedagogy demonstration and to assistance departments call up about how to structure this portion of the interview, we canvassed 113 biology faculty from a variety of institutions across North America (Tabular array one) as to the role and assessment of the education demonstration in the interview process. Nosotros asked faculty who vote on tenure-track hiring decisions and are in departments in which a instruction sit-in is part of the interview procedure to identify the elements of an constructive educational activity sit-in and to give communication as to how candidates tin ready for this aspect of the interview. The results of the survey, as well as representative comments from survey respondents, are presented below.
Table ane.
Demographic information on survey respondents
| Institution type | Number of respondents | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Community college | 30 | Total professor: forty% |
| Associate professor: 13% | ||
| Banana professor: ten% | ||
| Lecturer: 37% | ||
| Other: 0% | ||
| Primarily undergraduate institution | 35 | Full professor: 26% |
| Associate professor: 37% | ||
| Assistant professor: 31% | ||
| Lecturer: 3% | ||
| Other: iii% | ||
| Master's degree granting | vii | Total professor: 14% |
| Associate professor: 72% | ||
| Assistant professor: 14% | ||
| Lecturer: 0% | ||
| Other: 0% | ||
| PhD granting | 41 | Full professor: 35% |
| Acquaintance professor: 26% | ||
| Assistant professor: 21% | ||
| Lecturer: 16% | ||
| Other: 2% |
The Importance of the Teaching Demonstration
Our survey shows that 62% of biology departments require a didactics demonstration. However, the inclusion of a pedagogy sit-in as a component of the interview procedure varies past institution type, with instruction demonstrations being almost common at community colleges (Tabular array ii). When teaching demonstrations are included in the interview process, candidates are most oft asked to prepare materials for an undergraduate class for majors, irrespective of institution type. Faculty members of the department and hiring committee typically attend the presentations. Students are as well present in about one-third of the cases. Regardless of the audience, candidates are typically told to treat the audience as though they were students.
Tabular array two.
The requirement for job candidates to do a teaching sit-in varies by institution type
| The chore candidate is required to requite … | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Establishment blazon | but a research talk (%) | a research talk and a teaching demonstration (%) | merely a teaching demonstration (%) | Othera (%) | n |
| Community college | 0 | 6.7 | 83.3 | 10.0 | thirty |
| Primarily undergraduate institution | 34.3 | 34.3 | 20.0 | 11.4 | 35 |
| Master'due south caste granting | 42.nine | 57.1 | 0 | 0 | seven |
| PhD granting | 43.9 | 36.half dozen | 0 | nineteen.5 | 41 |
Our survey too showed that faculty members think that the teaching demonstration is an of import part of a job interview. Namely, 47.0% of respondents said that the candidate's performance on the pedagogy demonstration carries equal weight with the research talk, and 28.1% said that the teaching sit-in carries more weight than the research talk (results past institution type in Table 3).
Table 3.
The importance of the teaching sit-in relative to the research talk at unlike establishment types
| The candidate'due south performance on the teaching demonstration carries … | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institution typea | more weight than his/her performance on the research talk (%) | less weight than his/her operation on the inquiry talk (%) | equal weight with his/her performance on the research talk (%) | n b |
| Primarily undergraduate institution | 41.seven | 0 | 58.3 | 12 |
| Chief's caste granting | 50.0 | 25.0 | 25.0 | iv |
| PhD granting | 0 | 53.3 | 46.7 | 15 |
One reason faculty are placing importance on the teaching demonstration portion of the interview, according to 98.two% of respondents, is that teaching plays some part in determining tenure and promotion, with 57.one% saying teaching is heavily weighted (results past institution blazon in Tabular array 4). Given the price in time and money of conducting kinesthesia searches, besides as the financial investment the higher is making with each hire, it is incumbent on the department to select the task candidate who shows high potential in both inquiry and teaching abilities. Equally a survey responder noted:
It is amazing how oftentimes applicants are ill-prepared for the teaching sit-in; if the teaching demonstration cannot be the "all-time" lecture they take always prepared and given, how well will they prepare for the daily lectures of a course?
Table iv.
The role of teaching in tenure and promotion separated by institution type
| How much do education and instruction evaluations determine tenure and promotion in your department? | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institution type | Pedagogy does non contribute, merely research effort is of import (%) | Education evaluations must be adequate (corking) (%) | Teaching is heavily weighted (%) | north |
| Community college | 0 | 14.3 | 85.7 | 28 |
| Primarily undergraduate establishment | 0 | 14.three | 85.7 | 35 |
| Master'due south caste granting | 0 | 57.1 | 42.nine | 7 |
| PhD granting | 4.8 | 78.6 | 16.6 | 42 |
Another reason faculty want to hire candidates who demonstrate potential as effective teachers is that, since 2000, a number of national reports have made calls to action to ameliorate science teaching (National Inquiry Council, 2000 
, 2003 ; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010 ; Anderson et al., 2011 ). These reports conclude that learning is most effective when it is an agile try incorporating enquiry-based learning strategies and integrating all steps of the scientific process into the learning process. A wealth of studies indicate that few students learn while sitting passively in lecture taking notes (e.chiliad., Bonwell and Eison, 1991 ; Bransford et al., 2000 ; Knight and Wood, 2005 ; Ruiz-Primo et al., 2011 ). Therefore, faculty are existence asked to recognize that students must "do" science to "learn" science and their teaching methods should reverberate this change.
Finally, showing didactics potential demonstrates not but that a candidate is prepared for the major task of teaching, just also that he or she is well prepared for establishing his or her own research projects. Only equally inquiry enhances teaching, it is besides true that instruction enhances research. A recent study of science graduate students constitute that those who teach inquiry-based methods improve their research skills in formulating hypotheses and designing experiments to examination these hypotheses (Feldon et al., 2011 ). Giving a skilled pedagogy demonstration therefore establishes a candidate'due south potential equally both an effective instructor and a research scientist.
Elements of an Effective Teaching Demonstration
To decide which elements of a teaching sit-in are most of import, we asked survey participants to respond to 21 statements describing specific characteristics of a teaching session on a Likert scale from 1 = not of import to 4 = very important (Tabular array 5).
Table 5.
The ranked importance of elements of a teaching demonstrationa
| Statement | Hateful scoreb | |
|---|---|---|
| Q21. | The candidate's content information is accurate. | 3.86 |
| Q12. | The candidate's presentation would be understandable to students. | three.82 |
| Q18. | The candidate is able to organize material effectively. | 3.73 |
| Q4. | The candidate pitches the talk at the correct level for the intended audience. | 3.68 |
| Q7. | The candidate introduces topics in a fashion that connects to the audition (request questions, emphasizing the relevance of the topic, etc.). | iii.63 |
| Q9. | The candidate demonstrates his/her knowledge about the topic. | three.60 |
| Q1. | The candidate is enthusiastic. | 3.56 |
| Q6. | The candidate appears confident in his/her ability to teach. | 3.52 |
| Q8. | The candidate covers the appropriate corporeality of textile for the given time and level of student. | 3.40 |
| Q11. | The candidate speaks at a comfortable pace. | 3.22 |
| Q10. | The candidate'south slides are like shooting fish in a barrel to read. | three.xx |
| Q14. | The candidate asks if the audience has questions during the presentation. | iii.02 |
| Q3. | When asked a question, the candidate facilitates a word, rather than just telling the answer. | 2.66 |
| Q13. | The candidate provides a wrap-up at the end. | 2.62 |
| Q16. | The candidate allows expect time (at least three–five due south) for the audience to think about questions posed. | 2.58 |
| Q17. | The candidate incorporates elements of agile learning (eastward.g. discussion, small-group work, clicker questions). | 2.52 |
| Q15. | The candidate gives a clear indication of his/her teaching philosophy. | 2.48 |
| Q5. | The candidate discusses how he/she would assess student learning on an examination or other future assignment. | ii.26 |
| Q19. | The candidate explains why he/she is using certain teaching strategies. | 2.02 |
| Q2. | The candidate brings in materials, such as a printout of slides, that he/she would manus out in class. | 1.98 |
The top-rated statement from faculty across institution types was that the content of a candidate'due south teaching sit-in exist authentic (Q21), which indicates that, first and foremost, faculty feel it is important that the job candidate have expertise in his or her discipline. Disciplinary expertise includes factual knowledge, as well as a deep understanding of the conceptual frameworks that underlie and connect these facts. Nevertheless, to be an effective instructor, the candidate should also demonstrate pedagogical content knowledge, that is, the ability to select, organize, and properly implement the appropriate didactics method to help students run across the challenges of mastering the fabric (Shulman, 1986 ). Statements aligned with the importance of pedagogical content knowledge were besides ranked highly in our survey, including: the presentation is understandable to students (Q12), the cloth is organized effectively (Q18), and the candidate pitches the talk at the correct level for the intended audience (Q4).
Our survey showed few differences based on institutional type in how faculty ranked the importance of specific elements in a teaching demonstration. But two statements showed a pregnant deviation: whether "the candidate discusses how he/she would assess student learning on an exam or other futurity assignment" (Q5: Kruskal-Wallis χii = 6.11, df = two, p < 0.05) and whether "the candidate explains why he/she is using certain teaching strategies" (Q19: Kruskal-Wallis χii = 8.51, df = two, p < 0.05). Whether a candidate discusses assessment methods elicited a greater range of responses from faculty at primarily undergraduate and PhD-granting institutions when compared with community college faculty (Effigy 1A). Whether a candidate discusses education strategy elicited a greater range of responses from faculty at PhD-granting institutions when compared with the other two institution types (Figure 1B).
A comparison of how faculty from different institution types ranked the importance of two statements on the survey. (A) Responses to Q5: "The candidate discusses how he/she would appraise pupil learning on an exam or other hereafter assignment." (B) Responses to Q19: "The candidate explains why he/she is using certain teaching strategies." Fault bars show the range limits of kinesthesia answers.
Elements of an Outstanding Educational activity Demonstration
A teaching demonstration that incorporates all the statements shown in Table 5 would certainly exist impressive. Every bit one survey responder noted: "Very few candidates are able to meet all the criteria. If a candidate does at least, say, ii-thirds of those well, then due south/he is going to be ranked quite highly in my listen." Given that the likelihood of a job candidate excelling at all the statements in Tabular array five is pocket-sized, we also wanted to determine which elements were primal to making a education demonstration outstanding, to enable candidates to prioritize their teaching efforts.
To acquire what faculty consider the fundamental elements of an outstanding teaching sit-in, we asked the following: "What distinguishes an adequate teaching demonstration from an outstanding teaching sit-in?" The elements most frequently cited included: enthusiasm, passion for a topic, and a relaxed and confident manner.
The outstanding candidate conveys their excitement for the topic to their audience. The outstanding candidate also conveys to their students the sense that "I can do this," along with the expectations to exist achieved.
I ask myself if I would like to enroll in a course taught past the candidate. If I am left excited about the experience and left inspired and I feel my students experience the aforementioned I would say it was an outstanding demonstration. If I could tolerate attending the candidate'southward class it would be considered acceptable.
The employ of active-learning strategies was besides cited by respondents.
If the individual can demonstrate something out of the ordinary, for example, a hands-on activity or an online simulation, the presentation will clearly stand up out.
An outstanding candidate volition give us some indication that he/she will readily practice more than lecture (some type of student centered teaching) upon arriving on campus.
Preparing for the Teaching Sit-in
Implementing the elements considered of import in a educational activity demonstration requires planning and practise. We have compiled a number of suggestions that can aid chore candidates as they ready for the educational activity demonstration function of their job interviews.
Follow Instructions.
If you lot are given instructions by the department on the type of audience you are to be teaching, follow the instructions. Regardless of the makeup of the audition, information technology is advised that you lot treat them as though they were students. Furthermore, if you were told your teaching demonstration is to be pitched to an introductory biology class, exercise non give the aforementioned talk you would give in a graduate-level journal club.
In my experience, the teaching demonstration can easily fall into a continuation of the research presentation, centering on the presenter's surface area of expertise rather than using a more balanced arroyo to the large picture that an undergraduate or even graduate student might demand to progress.
It is helpful to kickoff your presentation by reminding your audience of the type of course your education demonstration is focused on (eastward.g., level, expected size, educational background of students, and majors vs. nonmajors). Reviewing these details not merely sends the message that yous are paying attending to directions, just as well reminds the audience they are playing the role of the "student." This reminder is particularly important when active-learning exercises are being used, every bit the kinesthesia demand to give typical student responses if the exercise is to work appropriately.
Practise Some Research.
Once either you lot or the department yous are visiting has selected a topic for your teaching demonstration, detect a class at your home institution like to the one your instruction demonstration will focus on. Sitting in on this grade, looking over the course textbook, and talking with teaching assistants or faculty associated with the form will requite you lot a much better understanding of what electric current students know and how to make circuitous cloth accessible to them. It volition also give you insight into current classroom dynamics and management problems, topics that could easily ascend during the job interview.
Cover the Appropriate Corporeality of Textile—Less IS More.
When your audience is filled with faculty members, it is hard to remember that you lot are not beingness judged on the amount of knowledge you can convey, simply on how able yous are to "teach" the process of science, using the discipline y'all are discussing.
An outstanding demonstration would appoint the audience (encouraging responses, give-and-take amidst the students), chronicle the material being taught to students' interests and experience, [and] non view covering any given amount material as the main goal.
Although information technology is common for science teachers to experience the need to comprehend large amounts of content, effective educational activity does not sacrifice depth, problem solving, and critical thinking in the process (Whorl et al., 2010 ). Studies take shown there is a limit to the amount of data a person can process and store (Miller, 1956 ; Sweller, 1994 ). Realize, therefore, that your sit-in should only comprise three to iv major points that you nowadays in a way that is accessible to students. Choose these well.
Appoint Students in the Classroom.
One key to facilitating learning is to appoint students in the learning process (Bransford et al., 2000 ; deWinstanley and Bjork, 2002 ). We identify beneath key aspects of how to engage students in a manner that enhances learning.
Connect with the Audience: Assistance Them Realize the Importance and Relevance of the Topic.
To capture the attention of your audience, relate the class material to something with which your audience is very familiar nevertheless which provides some mystery or puzzle. Alluding to something in the contempo or popular press is often quite effective in producing the "hook" that will encourage attention.
When because material that could generate pupil interest, keep in listen that your form volition comprise a diversity of individuals. This multifariousness tin can cover indigenous, socioeconomic, religious, political, and gender differences. You desire your teaching demonstration to appoint just non offend any sector of this broad audience.
Utilise Slides and the Board to Promote Learning.
Many teaching demonstrations include slides, such as PowerPoint slides, but continue in mind:
PowerPoint is a good start for some, but it isn't the whole talk and information technology isn't essential. What is essential is that they get their signal across.
If you utilize slides in your education demonstration, each slide should aid promote learning and display material and then information technology is accessible to students. Your slides, therefore, should non exist used as simply a way to convey information. For example, bulleted points are a classic manner of reminding a speaker of what they want to say, but this is non an effective style to help students learn fabric. In fact, work in cerebral scientific discipline has shown that supplying students with an all-encompassing ready of class notes actually impedes rather than enhances learning (deWinstanley and Bjork, 2002 ). Slides, instead, can be used to pose questions, query interpretations of graphs, and illustrate points with pictures and videos.
When incorporating graphs into your didactics demonstration, it is important that the graphs are large and readable and that all axes are labeled. Have time to orient the audience to the graph by asking the audience to explain what is depicted on each axis and to propose how the data were generated. Similarly, ask the audience to construct possible conclusions to be drawn from the information rather than just telling them your conclusions—estimation of material is a key aspect of the student learning process (deWinstanley and Bjork, 2002 ).
If audience members should be writing down material y'all are presenting, it is all-time if yous are writing information technology down likewise. If a blackboard or whiteboard is available, use this to write downwardly the information that you absolutely desire the audience to write down.
It is important that the candidate uses the board, or other technique that slows the step for students and allows for more spontaneity than only following (a) PPT.
Utilise Questions to Promote Learning: "Enquire, Don't Tell."
Using questions to introduce an idea is an constructive way to focus the audience's minds on the material that is coming. Your questions can exist rhetorical or directed to arm-twist student discussion. In addition, information technology is important to verify that your audience is processing the data you are trying to convey. Task candidates will often terminate periodically and ask whether there are whatsoever questions, which in a real classroom tin exist problematic, because students who are lost are unremarkably reluctant to speak in front of the class. A more effective strategy is to ask a question that will diagnose whether the students actually understand the material. During your task interview, yous could ane) pose a question, two) accept the audience members write down an answer and discuss their answers with their neighbors, and 3) ask the audition to share ideas. When responding to an audience member'southward idea, it is a proficient thought to try to use at to the lowest degree a portion of each respond to build the correct answer, while also politely correcting any errors.
Many job candidates feel uncomfortable asking questions and fielding audience responses, because they are afraid they might not be able to chop-chop process an answer or handle follow-up questions. If a question is asked that is difficult to answer, requite yourself time to thoughtfully consider the question by turning the question back to the audience. Inquire the audience to "talk to your neighbor." This arroyo will requite you time to assemble audience input to which yous can add your own ideas. You do not accept to know all the answers, but always acknowledge the value of a question, and tell the audition to research this out of grade and bring their subsequent ideas to the next class.
Use Active-Learning Activities.
Incorporating active-learning techniques into the classroom profoundly enhances student learning (eastward.g., Bonwell and Eison, 1991 ; Bransford et al., 2000 ; Knight and Wood, 2005 ; Ruiz-Primo et al., 2011 ). These techniques encompass a wide diverseness of activities, such as small-grouping break-out discussions, grouping assignments, brusk in-class writing assignments, and use of personal response systems, such as clickers (Table six has a list of resource with data on active-learning strategies). Effectively incorporating any of these active-learning activities into your teaching demonstration can be impressive to the search committee.
Outstanding teaching demonstrations are distinguished by effective use of active learning exercises, ability to conform a diverseness of learning styles, and, nigh importantly, ability to engage the grade.
Tabular array half-dozen.
Resource to assistance task candidates become familiar with active learning
If yous mention active learning as an important part of your teaching philosophy statement, it is important that you use agile-learning in your teaching demonstration.
One fourth dimension, a candidate had an impressive statement of teaching philosophy that talked about employing state-of-the-art pedagogies, and then failed to use whatsoever agile learning in the didactics sit-in. I found this particularly frustrating because it suggested an inability to recognize what proficient educational activity/learning is.
If you lot are using electronic devices, such equally clickers, yet, make sure you are well versed in how they piece of work before you use them for a job interview. If at all possible, take the opportunity to endeavor them out in the room y'all will employ for your instruction demonstration. Failing technology can doom a teaching demonstration, and then either confirm all parts of the system are in working society or go with a technique that does not require engineering, such as having audience members raise their hands.
If one tries to use methods or tools they are uncomfortable or unaccustomed to using simply to endeavour to impress the commission, it will evidence, and work confronting them.
Practice!
Just equally you practice your research talk in front of peers, present your teaching demonstration to colleagues, especially lecturers and other faculty whose master focus is on pedagogy. Seasoned teachers accept a wealth of experience and data that can ensure that your education session is organized in a way that is accessible to students, accurate, and effective at helping students learn. If possible, too practice your talk in forepart of students at your home establishment. Students are quite honest and straight nigh what they think makes effective teaching and tin can give your teaching demonstration a true test run.
When you give a practice talk, fully endeavour out any agile-learning strategies.
Candidates we accept interviewed recently used standard, lecture-only teaching style and did non appoint the audience except in cursory, half-hearted, incompletely conceived question/discussion interludes.
This error is avoidable. Practicing agile-learning strategies will requite you lot an idea of the range of responses y'all can expect from the audition and help you plan how to react. It is also important to prepare aside enough time for each agile-learning activity. Job candidates often cut short their learning activity with the missive "in a existent grade I would requite the students more time but I am cutting it short today due to time." Exist cautious about maxim this, because such a argument may bespeak poor time-direction or an inability to implement the activity.
CONCLUSIONS
Above all, realize that departments want to hire someone who has the potential to exist successful in the classroom. While success in research volition be measured by your number of grants and publications, success in the classroom will be measured by how well you engage students in meaningful learning.
The outstanding demonstration of instruction helps usa understand how the individual connects with students.
So, amongst all the things you lot are doing to set for your future career, capitalize on your teaching assignments and mentorship opportunities in your laboratory. Each of these endeavors offers the opportunity to learn how to interact effectively with students. Understanding pupil concerns and how to help students learn could be the fundamental to landing your academic job.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
One thousand.Southward. is supported in part by the National Scientific discipline Foundation under grant 0962805. We thank the faculty who responded to this survey. Approval to evaluate faculty responses to survey questions (exempt status, protocol no. 2012-04-07) was granted by the institutional review board at the University of Maine.
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