Teaching Tips

Kerry LitzenbergPresidential Professor and Regents Professor

Department of Agricultural EconomicsTexas A&M University

July 2011

STAYING FRESH !!!!You should Teach with excitement and high motivation..

……………and here is how to do that……………TEACH……

• Team Teach (really both of you at the same time) with someone older (younger) than you

• NEW stuff in your old course• NEW ways to teach topics in your current course• NEW courses • Large (Small) classes• in a different setting (department, format, country, age (6th

graders) • to industry folks• Have visitors evaluate your teaching• Volunteer to do peer teaching reviews – it is amazing what you

can learn.

New stuff I’ve tried in the last 5 years…that you might want to try……….

• Clickers (“One Click at a Time”) -Decreases inactive learners – gets people to class – better prepared for outset quizzes.• Podcasting (creating video reviews of your course learning

topics)• VideoLearningInSales.tamu.edu (website for student

supplemental learning in the sales class – Dr Litz Productions) • Company Prospecting Class ( use a company who comes into

class to show the profile of their target market and then the students prospect for customers.

• SalesContest.tamu.edu (campus-wide sales role playing contest. Partnership between Marketing, Ag Economics and Industrial Distribution depts.

Thanks for allowing me to help motivate and excite you about Teaching

Kerry LitzenbergDepartment of Agricultural Economics

Texas A&M University