Introduction
Eastern Kentucky University. This essay covers the faculty shadowing report. Dr.Martin Brock was contacted for the shadowing assignment from the department of chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). The visit was paid on Wednesday, December 2nd 2015. EKU is a regional comprehensive university located in the Richmond, Kentucky. It has around 16,000 students and out of which around 2000 are postgraduate students.
Department of Chemistry Chemistry department has 400 undergrad students and around 10 graduate students. Departments doesn’t have any PhD program. It offers three different degrees , B.Sc Chemistry, B.A Chemistry and Forensic science. Department has 13 tenure track faculty , 10 adjourn faculty and 3 lecturers. …show more content…
His advising method was applicable. He was listening to the problems of the students and advising them accordingly. He offered one of the students to guide her with the homework solution for the final exam; she has three exams in the same day. He suggested her to discuses this problem with the instructor from the middle slot exam for the make up exam if doesn’t get any response then he will talk to the faculty member by himself. It was really nice the way he felt the problem of an undergrad student and showed willingness to solve it. He even offered to help one of his students who has anxiety problem with the exam in the separate room. He told me that most of the students at EKU are first generation and they advise them keeping this thing in mind. I think, this is good thing, I observed at EKU that students are sharing their problems with the faculty members and he was guiding them with the possible solutions. His door was open and students were just knocking and were welcomed into the office. One more thing I observed that he knew the name of most of his students, which shows how well he know the …show more content…
Chemistry department has very good courses to offers to the students who want to be a schoolteacher. They train them to be a schoolteacher, it is just like graduate level faculty preparing courses at UK, where they prepare faculty for universities/colleges.
Summary,
The faculty shadowing assignment was really helpful for understanding the academic culture in US. As I am from Pakistan and I have teaching experience at home from a small engineering school, it is totally different from US academic culture. I can compare both of them. EKU is a small teaching oriented university. I got an opportunity to examine the teaching environment at a different school. I discovered the differences and similarities between UK an EKU. I would highly recommend the shadowing program for the graduate students to understand the academic culture.
Finally, I want to thank Dr.Martin Brock for his time and useful guidance for this
Eastern Kentucky University. This essay covers the faculty shadowing report. Dr.Martin Brock was contacted for the shadowing assignment from the department of chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). The visit was paid on Wednesday, December 2nd 2015. EKU is a regional comprehensive university located in the Richmond, Kentucky. It has around 16,000 students and out of which around 2000 are postgraduate students.
Department of Chemistry Chemistry department has 400 undergrad students and around 10 graduate students. Departments doesn’t have any PhD program. It offers three different degrees , B.Sc Chemistry, B.A Chemistry and Forensic science. Department has 13 tenure track faculty , 10 adjourn faculty and 3 lecturers. …show more content…
His advising method was applicable. He was listening to the problems of the students and advising them accordingly. He offered one of the students to guide her with the homework solution for the final exam; she has three exams in the same day. He suggested her to discuses this problem with the instructor from the middle slot exam for the make up exam if doesn’t get any response then he will talk to the faculty member by himself. It was really nice the way he felt the problem of an undergrad student and showed willingness to solve it. He even offered to help one of his students who has anxiety problem with the exam in the separate room. He told me that most of the students at EKU are first generation and they advise them keeping this thing in mind. I think, this is good thing, I observed at EKU that students are sharing their problems with the faculty members and he was guiding them with the possible solutions. His door was open and students were just knocking and were welcomed into the office. One more thing I observed that he knew the name of most of his students, which shows how well he know the …show more content…
Chemistry department has very good courses to offers to the students who want to be a schoolteacher. They train them to be a schoolteacher, it is just like graduate level faculty preparing courses at UK, where they prepare faculty for universities/colleges.
Summary,
The faculty shadowing assignment was really helpful for understanding the academic culture in US. As I am from Pakistan and I have teaching experience at home from a small engineering school, it is totally different from US academic culture. I can compare both of them. EKU is a small teaching oriented university. I got an opportunity to examine the teaching environment at a different school. I discovered the differences and similarities between UK an EKU. I would highly recommend the shadowing program for the graduate students to understand the academic culture.
Finally, I want to thank Dr.Martin Brock for his time and useful guidance for this