Transcript Teaching Portfolio of Vandana Janeja

Teaching Portfolio
of
Vandana P. Janeja
Information Technology Major
PhD in Management
Rutgers University - Newark
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Outline
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Goals
Past and Current teaching responsibilities
Teaching Philosophy and approach
Instructional Strategies
Teaching methods
Nature of classes taught
Representative course material
Materials Showing the Extent of Student Learning
Activities to Improve Instruction
Evaluations of Teaching
Contributions to Your Institution or Profession
Other Supporting Documents
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Goals
 To successfully create an appreciation of the
subject in the students, in every type of
subject matter
 Manage successfully various class sizes in
diverse environments
 Successfully integrate learning in theory with
application to real life scenarios
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Past Teaching
Responsibilities
 Past Teaching Responsibilities - India
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Computer Maintenance Corporation Ltd. Authorized
training center(CMC ATC, India)
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Training Executives(age group-45-65)
Training IT graduates (MBA, MS) for working on offshore
projects in U.S software firms
Training student groups, in Software engineering and
programming languages
National Institute of Information technology(NIIT, India)
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Teaching Programming languages and database concepts
Conducting lab sessions in MS Office suite for the SWIFT
program
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Past Teaching
Responsibilities
 New Jersey Institute of Technology(NJIT, Newark,
NJ)
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Teaching Assistant for CIS 365 Spring 2000(Distance
Learning-60 students)- mentors Dr.Friedman and
Dr.Beiber
Adjunct Faculty for CIS 365 Fall 2001(62 students)
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Instructing students in File structures using COBOL
Development of complex projects using COBOL file
based systems
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Current Teaching
Responsibilities
 Rutgers University
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Instructor for Oracle and Developer classes for-Database
Systems : 22:198:603
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Teaching on 10th, 17th Feb 2004 for Oracle SQL*PLUS,
SQL
Teaching Developer/2000 Oracle Forms and Reports on
April 7th 2004
Conducting lab oriented classes with hands on exercises
for students
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Current Teaching
Responsibilities
 Rutgers University
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Guest lecture for Applications of Database
Systems
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Lecture on 22nd March 2004 on Data Mining
with a special emphasis on Spatial Data Mining
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Teaching Philosophy and
Approach
 Teaching is not abstract but concrete, so have concrete steps
and techniques
 Some Ice breakers are always good
 Consider the background of students in designing the
syllabus and lectures
 Bridging the gap between theory and practice- Infuse real
life scenarios in teaching material
 Involve students in hands on assignments with some lab
sessions
 Project oriented approach to bring together everything learnt
during the semester
 To draw a careful balance in class interaction, to facilitate
individual learning as well as group learning
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Instructional Strategies
 First session – Informal introduction and evaluation of student
background and past classes or prerequisites taken
 Evaluating and re-arranging the course material presentation based on
the above
 Setting a clear guideline of grading system
 Developing individual and group activities
 One presentation oriented session where students present in a small
group or individually – based on their opinion or literature of current
state of the art of the subject being studied
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Facilitates free interaction and self learning capabilities
Generates a good environment for interest in the subject and learning
together
Introduces students to each other for other project oriented activities
Encourages a healthy competitive environment
 Assignments based on hands on Exercises derived from real life
applications
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Teaching Methods
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Lecturing
Lab Sessions or hands on exercises
Individual and group assignments
One presentation session
One semester project – for Example making a
software application prototype based on lectures
and lab assignments on databases, programming
languages
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Nature of classes taught
 Varying in Age (16-65)
 Varying in background (undergrad, Grad,
Software engineers, Corporate executives)
 Special needs student
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Representative course materials
 Syllabus
 Presentation slides
 Hands on Lab Exercises with Fujitsu
COBOL
 Student project Submissions(Fall 2001 batch)
Enclosed with the portfolio
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Materials Showing the Extent of
Student Learning
 Student project Submissions(Fall 2001 batch)
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Illustrate the appreciation of using COBOL with
advanced Relational databases
Presentations made by students describing
avenues in COBOL job market
 A special note on COBOL
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Activities to Improve Instruction
 Additional Lab exercises
 Assisting in Project work for creating
complex relevant application softwares using
COBOL as front-end and Access as back end
relational database management systems
 Presentation based assignments to bring out
the managerial skills in a purely technical
group of students
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Evaluations of Teaching
 Teaching evaluations for CIS 365
 Lessons learnt from teaching very different
groups
 Feedback from some students
 Evaluation by Supervisors
 Feedback from a group of corporate
executive students
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Contributions to Your
Institution or Profession
 Initiative to propose a new course – JAVA
STRUTS for extending CIS 602-Java
Programming at NJIT
 Initiative to extend the CIS 365 course to
advanced usage with Relational Database
systems
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Other Supporting Documents
 Experience letter from CMC ATC
 Experience letter from NIIT
 Teaching evaluations
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From NJIT (CIS 365)
From Dr.Atluri evaluations for Database systems
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