embracing the hulk: maintaining your instruction program’s smashing success

Meridith Wolnick, University of VirginiaPaula Roy, University of Virginia

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Embracing the hulk:

Maintaining your

instruction program’s smashing success

Outcomes

Recognize characteristics of an instruction program that has grown beyond its capabilities

Identify factors within an instruction program that are vulnerable to exceeding its scope

Identify strategies for managing an increased workload while maintaining staff energy and commitment

Each instruction program is unique

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Each instruction program is unique

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● No required course progression

Each instruction program is unique

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● No required course progression

● Not embedded

Each instruction program is unique

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● No required course progression

● Not embedded● No standard

structure or content

Each instruction program is unique

www.thinkgeek.com

● No required course progression

● Not embedded● No standard

structure or content

● 30-75 minutes

Each instruction program is unique

www.thinkgeek.com

● No required course progression

● Not embedded● No standard

structure or content

● 30-75 minutes

● Support for subject liaisons

How Our Program Had Grown● Increase in instruction requests leading

to…○ Increased time spent scheduling○ Increased time spent planning○ Increased time spent teaching○ Increase in student consultations

● Increase in customized classes● Increased partnerships with liaisons

Things to consider

Being Awesome

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Things to considerWorkload and Responsibility Changes

New practices:AssessmentReflectionCo-teachingTechnology

Things to consider

Things to consider

● Increasing requests for customization

● Increased enrollment

● Ripple effect from changing University priorities

External Factors

Strategies for maintaining energy and commitment

● Reusing/repurposing resources● Co-teaching● Limit…

○ Number of classes per day○ Back-to-back classes

● Focus on specific courses● Consistency in “repeat” classes● Time away

Charles Paul Wilson, III

mwolnick@virginia.edu

paularoy@virginia.edu

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