Transcript How Do We Do It All? Teacher Educator’s Responsibilities in Addition to Teaching & Scholarship Dr.

How Do We Do It All?
Teacher Educator’s
Responsibilities in Addition to
Teaching & Scholarship
Dr. Patti Powell
Professor of Education
Trinity Christian College
Service
The third important component to our job at
Trinity is service. Service to Trinity, to our
community, to our churches, and to the world. It
is equal in worth to teaching and scholarship when
one is looking to promote to the next level or
attain tenure. This is one of the BEST things
about teaching at Trinity.
Advising
•Education faculty typically advise 20-25
students
•We see them regularly twice a year to help
them register for the fall and spring semesterseach advising session is about 45 minutes long
•In addition, they come to see us about any
concerns that may arise in any part of their
academic, personal, or professional life
•They become more than our advisees, many
become close acquaintances and even friends
Committees
Each faculty member serves on a number of
committees whose load equals 10 points. Some
committees are worth 1,3 or even 5 points. Often
you will serve on a committee for several years
and then chair the committee. There are several
committees that are elected positions but their
point value is often equivalent to a committee that
is not an elected position.
Teaching overloads
Since Trinity has an adult studies program in
secondary education, elementary education and
special education, many of the education
department faculty teach overloads during the
school year or during the summer. Each adult
studies class lasts 5 weeks for 4 hours one night
a week. In addition many of us are “owners” of
adult studies courses, particularly if we teach
that course in the traditional program and are
paid to keep the course current, especially if new
editions of the text being used come out.
Education Department Meeting
and sub committee assignments
The education department at Trinity which
includes elementary education, special
education and adult studies education meets at
least once a month for 2-3 hours. In addition
to this, each of us is on 1 or 2 sub committees
that meet between large education department
meetings working on areas such as improving
writing for our students, integrating RTI across
the curriculum and improving technology for
our students.
How Do We Do It?
If you’re like me, you stay late, come back at night,
sneak in an hour or two on Saturday or Sunday
afternoon and work from home at night. One of the
advantages of working at a small college is the
tremendous flexibility that we have but the drawback
is the increased workload….but I found being able to
move up the ranks was quite doable and what was
required to do so was reasonable and achievable. I
guess we can Do It All!