February 25, 2008
Dear ISU Graduate Teaching/Administrative Assistants and all other ISU Graduate Students:

RE:  2008 FALL SEMESTER THREE CREDIT HOUR GRADUATE COURSE OFFERING:
C&I 491, INTERNSHIP IN COLLEGE TEACHING

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ADVANCED REGISTRATION DATES ARE FROM MARCH 17, 2008 TO APRIL 18, 2008

Are you interested in becoming a Community College, College and/or University Instructor (teacher)? C&I 491, Internship in College Teaching, offers you an opportunity to develop your pedagogical teaching skills, strategies and dispositions while enhancing your teaching styles as beginning or continuing experienced community college and/or college/university instructors/professors in higher education, as well as instructors in agency and private industry settings, cultivating the craft of college teaching from a comprehensive knowledge base and view points.

C&I 491 is designed to:
• assist you in meeting your teaching responsibilities in large and small classroom settings as well as discussion and laboratory sections associated with undergraduate courses, and other settings.
• develop your observation and teaching strategies (that is, teacher and student-centered) with other experiences appropriate to academic involvement at the college level.
• emphasize a knowledge base of teaching as it applies to the beginning college instructor.
• develop and refine your individual teaching styles by establishing frames of reference that will permit you to learn, reflect upon, and discuss the teaching strategies generally associated with problem-based, high-cognitive student learning in college instruction.
• share several contextual factors that influence the organization and operation of post-secondary instruction, with emphasis on the undergraduate classroom setting.

Most importantly, this course provides you with classroom teaching experience in actual classroom teaching situations over a semester time period. Joint pre and post-conferences with peers in the class enables you to receive instructional consultation while videotaping your actual teaching lessons so that you have a record of your performance for self-analysis, assessment and evaluation. By all available accounts and testimonials from individuals across campus and alumni, they have indicated to us that C&I 491 was an integral and quite enjoyable part of their professional graduate studies and experiences at ISU as well as directly contributing to obtaining a community college and/or college/university teaching position throughout and beyond Illinois.

I hope that you will consider taking C&I 491, Internship in College Teaching, this forthcoming 2008 FALL semester. I would be pleased to visit with you about the ways this course would add to your professional development and graduate studies at Illinois State University. I can be reached at 438-5456 or by email at kfjerich@ilstu.edu or ken.jerich@ilstu.edu or at my website http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/kfjerich/index.htm and check out the following C&I 491 FALL 2008 semester hot link (website below):

http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/kfjerich/491fa2008.htm

Sincerely, Dr. Ken Jerich, Professor for C&I 491, Internship In College Teaching.
The Department of Curriculum & Instruction

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C & I 491, Internship in College Teaching:

For the 2008 Fall semester, the course begins on
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 * (see below)

C&I 491 2008 Fall Semester Website Information:

http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/kfjerich/491fa2008.htm

The course is designed to provide a fundamental knowledge base for teaching for graduate students who want to develop their teaching skills, strategies, models and style as a college/university instructor as well as an instructor in agency and private industry.

Graduate students from all academic disciplines who are interested in developing teaching expertise and gaining experience at the college/university level are invited to enroll in this graduate course. It is also designed for graduate students who have teaching responsibilities in their academic departments ranging from the instructor for a course to teaching laboratory sections of a course.

For information about Internship in College Teaching contact:

The Department of Curriculum & Instruction at (309) 438-5425
and/or Professor Kenneth Jerich at (309) 438-5456
or by email: kfjerich@ilstu.edu or ken.jerich@ilstu.edu

* this is the Tuesday of the week of registration before classes begin for the semester. The class begins at 9:00 a.m., in DeGarmo Hall, Room 31.