The Training Professor

Published ten times per year, The Instructing Professor is a upbeat, practical newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insights to educators who are sultry about training.

This is a newsletter that anticipates issues and addresses them as they are coming to the fore. It also evaluates existing educational practices and devices to help you choose strategies most likely to work for your courses, your students, and your institution. It is a comprehensive professional development resource.

Each issue studies the topics that you confront every day in the classroom. It raises the questions on everyone’s minds, and it presents solutions that just about anyone can use regardless of discipline or type of institution.

This newsletter produces:

• Concise article that will inspire you to instruct more effectively
• Practice advice and ideas to reach, motivate, and inspire students
• Substantive articles edited by Maryellen Weimer, PhD
• Proven research to help your institution improve training and learning
• Universally applicable training strategies for any discipline
• Relevant professional development

Don’t miss out on the wealth of ideas and insights into the latest pedagogical technologies.

Benefits

The Instructing Professor will give you insights and information you can implement instantly. Your instructing and your confidence will improve as you resolve problems, attempt subtle switches that yield big results, and rediscover your passion for leading the class. The publication will help you:

• Overcome obstacles to effective training
• Stay informed of the latest pedagogical research
• Understand what is working for colleagues “in the trenches”
• Hone your abilities and stay on top of instructing innovations
• Truly connect with your students

Subscribing means you will never miss the chance to learn something that can improve your instructing. And once you subscribe, The Training Professor will quickly become your go-to publication for any question or doubt you have about training and learning.

“It gives me fresh ideas, reinforces current (good) strategies, challenges current strategies, and keeps me focused on the real issues.” – Professor

Topics

Get insights on a diversity of classroom topics including:

• Student-centered learning
• Grading strategies
• Academic integrity
• Overcoming student apathy
• Integrating fresh technology
• Responding to course evaluations
• Effective training strategies
• Pedagogical research

“Superb ideas that can lightly be implemented. Philosophical perspectives related to SoTL.” – Instructing and Learning Center Coordinator

Message from the Editor – Maryellen Weimer, PhD

Audience

The Training Professor is tailored to instructors who are sultry about instructing and relevant to anyone who wants to see students succeed. It is particularly useful for:

• Instructing professors
• Fresh faculty
• Faculty development staff
• Department chairs
• Deans
• Online instructors

Fresh faculty will find the newsletter timely and reassuring—articles cover common questions and address issues that are on everyone’s minds.

Faculty development staff will detect fresh technologies to adopt, fresh practices to implement, and fresh ideas to share broadly across campus.

Deans and department chairs will detect ways to mentor fresh faculty and engage adjunct instructors.

This is not an esoteric publication. It is practical and packed with accessible strategies and mechanisms you can employ instantly, regardless of your discipline.

“I love the articles—it is by far the best publication I receive. Very consistent. The most useful information includes ideas on how to improve the classroom environment.” – Dean

Purchase

If you are committed to student learning, this is a pedagogical resource you will turn to again and again.

We look forward to you joining the ranks of the thousands of educators who have benefited from reading The Training Professor.

Current Subscribers

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Editor

Maryellen Weimer, PhD

Professor Emerita of Instructing and Learning

Maryellen Weimer has edited The Instructing Professor newsletter since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven and writes the Instructing Professor Blog each week on Faculty Concentrate. A distinguished scholar and author, Dr. Weimer’s books include Inspired College Training: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth. Read More

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