Master Teacher Program (MTP)

The Master Teacher Program (MTP), organized by the University Advisory Council on Teaching (UACT) and open to the Emory community every May since 2003, offers training for Master Teachers. The program is a two-and-a-half day seminar that provides an opportunity for Emory faculty from all units of the University and at all stages of their career to learn proven techniques to better their classroom effectiveness, and to reach their full potential as teachers.
	Dr. Harvey Brightman, Regents Professor Emeritus of Management and Decision Sciences at Georgia State University, facilitated the MTP in 2003 and 2004. Dr. Brightman’s skills in conducting this seminar reach across disciplines, and he has extensive experience teaching faculty from various divisions and schools. Over the last twenty years, Professor Brightman has conducted several outstanding Master Teacher Training Seminars throughout the country and around the world, from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to Rollins College in Florida. This year, Dr. Brightman will facilitate the first two days of the seminar programs. Emory faculty who have “graduated” from the program will facilitate the final half-day, giving the entire program a home-grown feel that ensures its relevance to our faculty. The third half-day session, new to the program this year and facilitated by the MTP Steering Committee, will help begin the transition of this program into an all Emory faculty facilitated program. Emory has a good number of talented teachers; this transition will showcase that talent. MTP participants are solicited by the MTP Subcommittee Chair from the Dean of each school. A maximum of 4 faculty members from each school are invited to participate in the program. The costs of attendance are underwritten by UACT, in order to remove any financial barriers to faculty attendance. Dr. Brightman’s sessions will address a variety of useful strategies and principles that will help improve any teacher’s skills. For example, in “Designing and Presenting an Effective Presentation,” participants will learn the “big six” principles for presenting a topic clearly and will learn strategies to assess the effectiveness of any presentation. In “Achieving Active Learning and Critical Thinking,” participants will learn how to form diverse groups, reduce classroom conflict, and enable students to achieve critical thinking. The third half-day session will provide participants a choice of one of three concurrent sessions on the following topics: Team Building Skills and Group Work, Interactive Lecturing & Evaluating and Developing Writing Assignments This year’s program will be held from May 18–20, 2005. The sessions will be on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday May 19, from 8:30 AM until approximately 5:00 PM, with a break for lunch, and Friday May 20 from 8:30 AM until 12:30 PM. At 12:30 on Friday there will be a luncheon graduation reception.

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