Sample Spring 2016 Teaching Evaluations by FAU graduate students
Distinguished Faculty & Scholarly Achievement Award
2016 Presidential Award by AAACE
Scholar of the Year, College of Education 2014-2015 FAU
Northern Campuses Award 2014-2015
Written comments Fall 2014–Florida
2013 Fall Student Evaluations–Florida
I hate to label myself as “an adult educator”, “an instructor in educational leadership”, “HRD guy (Human resource development)”, “a K-20 education person” or “an avid education researcher” because I firmly believe in what Carl Rogers said, “you can not teach another individual directly.” I enjoy this “helping profession” as popularized by Malcolm Knowles. I enjoy being called a co-learner in the learning process in this learning society. I have been fortunate that different universities have asked me to teach the following courses and through teaching these courses, I have become a better helper in this helping profession.
In addition to teaching College English in China for 8 years and College Chinese in Kansas, USA for 2 years, Dr. Wang has been teaching the following courses for different universities both at home and abroad (face to face/blended learning; fully online):
- Leadership I, II and III
- Program Development and Evaluation
- Curriculum Development in Career Technical Education and Adult Education
- Assessment and Evaluation of Adult Learning in Career and Technical Education
- History and Philosophy of Career and Technical Education (Higher Education included)
- Principles of Adult Education
- Human Performance Improvement
- Management Competencies
- Administrative Leadership (Leadership Theory and Practice)
- Research Methods
- Administrative Human Resource Management
- Training the Trainer
- Educational Research in Workforce Education and Adult Education
- Introduction to Education Media
- Advanced Program Development and Instruction
- Research Topic, Problem, Purpose and Question
- Research Methods and Designs
- Mixed Methods
- Quantitative Methods
- Concept Paper/Dissertation Proposal
- Adult Learning & Assessment
- Organization and Administration of Adult/Community Education
- Workplace Learning and Development
- Scholarly Writing Professional Publications
- Theories & Assessment (Leadership Theory & Practice)
- Directed Independent Study
- Field Project
- Adult and Community Education in a Changing Society
- Dissertation Committee Member/Chair
- External Examiner for Dissertation Candidates
This is not a complete list of college courses I have taught thus far. Regarding my teaching effectiveness, I was considered one of the popular instructors in China, Kansas and Arkansas. That was why I was invited to teach on TV and state radio in 1990 and 1991 in China. Unfortunately, I don’t keep those teaching evaluations by my former students in China or in those two states in the United States. However, I do keep teaching evaluations by students in CA and in FL. I love my students no matter where they are from. They are my inspirations. My students’ concerns/issues in taking courses with me become my research topics in my classes. Whenever I can, I involve my students in researching, writing and publishing. Someday in the future, I will be able to create a research foundation via which I will be able to support some master level and doctoral students financially so that the best minds will be attracted to the current graduate program.