Course Description

Three-Minute Talks: Talk about your Teaching with FAES

Join FAES on March 6, 2024 for our Spring 2024 Session B faculty kickoff event centered around talking about your teaching. Whether speaking to your students or a potential employer, we will practice giving an “elevator pitch” to highlight what you do best – teach! This event is open to all FAES faculty members, both courses and workshops, who are interested in better communication about their teaching skills or creating a solid introduction video for guiding students in their offering. Please note the Zoom link for this event will be sent out on March 5, 2024. 

The FAES instructional design team will provide templates to help you organize your thoughts and use as a backdrop for your three-minute talk. Instructors should come prepared to talk about their course and workshop following a brief presentation from the instructional design team on components of a course introduction video and setting expectations for students. For your Three Minute Talk, you can choose to focus on one of the following:

1. Practicing your introduction video to ensure students understand the content you will be covering and your expectations for success
2. Communicating your teaching philosophy and learning process you use to guide your students in preparation for a job interview

Quick Questions to Answer: 

Preparing for an Intro Video – Setting course expectations

• Who are you? (Quick summary of your expertise in the subject and why you are excited about teaching the course)
• What is the focus of your course?
• What are the objectives students will accomplish?
• What can students expect to do each week to accomplish those objectives?
• What is the final project? When do students start working on it? What are the steps along the way to completion?

Preparing for a Job Interview – Talking about your teaching

• How did you get involved in teaching?
• What is the focus of your course?
• How did you guide students to success and measure if they achieved outcomes?
• What did you learn from teaching this course and how did it inform your teaching philosophy/work philosophy?
• What skills from teaching make you an asset to add to their organization?

https://teaching.pitt.edu/resources/creating-introduction-videos/

careerhub.students.duke.edu/resources/develop-a-30-second-elevator-pitch/