Managing a Faculty Career 🕴🤵

Today, we had a wonderful meeting with a wonderful woman. Dr. Ro Dibrezzo is the vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of kinesiology. She gave us a session about managing a career as a faculty member. She is awesome. She has a presence while she is talking and she has the ability to grasp the attention of her audience. She gave us some advice from her experience and her position in the faculty. If you are the teacher, remember that you have the power. you have the power over the students and the administration. the students know that you are in power so, use this power to become a better staff member. The second point is not to be casual. Being casual with your students is different from being their good example. I guess I will make use of this advice in my upcoming life.    

Dozen Keys to "A's" in Teaching 🔑 Smile 😁

Often start with a "SMILE". these words were said by Dr. John A.White. Dr. White was the keynote speaker for the Baum Teaching Workshop. His presentation was about "55 Years Affairs with Teaching." This man I consider him an ideal example of a teacher. He started his talk with a smile. the smile that hooked us up to listen and learn of more than 50 years of experience in teaching. He wanted to share with us a story of success. A dozen keys to "A's" in teaching. Dr. White believed that Attitude, Aspiration, Availability, Allocation, Ambition, Affirmation, Awareness, Anticipation, Attentiveness, Adaptable, Application and Ability are the keys to be successful in teaching.  I believe that in teaching when it is related to yourself it will be successful. I think I would be myself as these little things mean a lot. I definitely will carry this experience to my colleagues to learn and know more about the passion of life and the passion for teaching.         

My True Color 📙📘📗📒

What do you think is your true color? This is the title of our first session on our journey. That was not my first time to hear about that test. I conducted that test about two years ago and I was sure that my color was blue. I got surprised when I conducted the same test this time with a different result. This time I become gold. I was thinking about how the color could change. I believe that I grow up with every single minute I spent in teaching. I think that a good teacher must be a combination of all the four colors. When Gavin started to tell us about each color and its meanings, I figured out that I am a teacher how I can combine different qualities to match my students who have much diversity in their learning styles and how should I match all these styles with different teaching styles. In my opinion, as a teacher, I should meet most of the students’ needs that grantee success in different occasions of teaching. Mixing the colors is important. I believe I could do much more when I know what are the true colors of my students regarding their learning abilities. I wish I could do this in my classes. This class helped me for a better understanding of my students. 

The Respected Matthew 👨‍🏫😍

I think that Matthew is an ideal example for a teacher. He is a cooperative, well-organized teacher. Actually, I would like to be like him. I have learned from him to make use of every single moment. He is creative and very curious. He likes to ask about everything. He is eager to know and to learn. He takes care of his lifestyle, and he is also taking care of his students. Positive feedback is one of his merits. The creative teacher, in my opinion, is usually beloved by his students. I like him so much. He used to provide us with information and materials that add much knowledge to us. I really appreciated his effort with us during the classes. Thanks a lot, my teacher. I think you have succeeded in achieving our target.  

Lovely Christina 👩‍🏫😍

Today was the last day we will see our lovely teacher and friend Christina. We spent about 5 weeks together. I liked Christina so much. She is a lovely smart teacher. She has a very pleasant smile. I have learned a lot from her. She worked with us on two points the academic writing and the pronunciation. I have learned a lot of activities and techniques. I liked how supporting she was to us. She usually cares about us. She asks me about my work and my family. Her smile reminds me of a famous Hollywood actress “Julian Moore”. She has the same eyes and smile. She encouraged us to write more and more until we become more perfect and be able to publish. I will take the chance and I will keep writing. She usually gives us a positive feedback. I have to say thank you to Christina. We love you so much and I will make sure to keep in touch with her. I hope to be friends for ever. Thank you Christina.    

Hi technology, I am here! 📽🕹

Today, I visited the global campus building. I was lucky to meet dr. Shelly again. She invited me last time to visit the global campus. It is the place where we design the online courses, electronic curriculum, and the virtual reality programs studio. I spent my time there in checking all the new technology available there. We checked the VR lab where I played and experienced a lot of the games and courses such as the human body, the spaceship, the American landmarks, the bear forest and the Disney coco movies. After that, I went to the chrome studio where we can produce videos and electronic programs. This reminded me of the unit for producing electronic courses at Mansoura University. That encouraged me a lot to produce more and cooperate with them when I am back to my home university.       

Fayetteville Farmers Market 🌹🌻🍓🍇🍉

Today is August 11^th. We had visited the farmers’ market is a very Fayetteville market. We saw people from all over Arkansas. The market is not only about farming products only, but it is a mix of art, nature, and handicrafts. I like it very much. It is not only for buying and selling items. It is a gathering and enjoying time activities. I have tried new things like the Kamoutcha, it is a mix of tea and juice, a chocolate coffee. I saw a lot of vegetables and flowers. As well as, a lot of people and friends. I saw different bands and singers. I saw paints who draw wonderful pictures of the city and carpenters who were very talented with their handmade crafts. I enjoyed the time very much for the reason that I have spent the day with an American family -Dr. Dennis Beck- my mentor. I met his wife Jane and his kids; Hana, Kaleb, and Jude. I actually liked the harmony among them. I always ask any happy family about the secret of happiness of long relationships. All the answers were about passing the trivial things and building bunds. I will do my best to achieve that with my family.  
   

Using Technology in Our Classes 👨‍🏫💻⌨📲🖱🖨

Today, we had a very interesting session about using technology in our classes with Shelly Walters I have learned a massive amount of information about how to work with technology especially in education. The first and the most important information is “I have to think about the target (Design the course first then try to put them in the electronic management system).” I have known a lot of useful websites and tools that I will use in my classes and in my research. I already knew and used some of them. Some of the digital clouds such as One Drive, Google Drive, and DropBox. In addition to some live chatting programs like Zoom, Skype, Adobe Connect, Collaborate, and Google Hangout. As well as, teaching management systems like Moodle, Blackboard, Google-Class, and Edmodo. Besides, some free websites that I could use to help me in preparing materials such as Audacity, Boom Writer, Diigo, Voice Thread, and Text Poll. This class actually shaped the way for me to invest in my upcoming works. 

What the best college teacher DO!!👨‍🏫👩‍🏫

In a two days’ session with Dr. Jennifer Beasley about What the best college teacher doing and providing support for an everyday learner. Think dots is a very interesting game we started the session with and it is played with a paper and a dice. I started to know more about myself in this session. When Dr. Matthew answered a question about a discerption. He answered the question in total but I liked to make it more simple and easier. Reading and management a differentiated classroom is also a recommended book to read about classroom management. A very point that I have learned is to tell the students that we are not all learning by the same way as we have individual differences. The class was interesting because we did a lot of activities. I like the thinking dots and guided discovery way. In the second session, we preceded the talk with the goal and what we are supposed to do with the data. Why do institutions of the higher education use data? In Egypt, we are targeting the GPA, the test scores, ratings, and course evaluation. In the USA they use the same as what we have in addition to feedback and observation. By the end of the session, we discussed the protocols for examining the data. I think we are in the line with the American system which means that we are about to improve our higher education system.