JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDUCATION - naspaa
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDUCATION - naspaa
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDUCATION - naspaa
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Operation PSA: The Action Learning of Curiosity and Creativity<br />
APPENDIX D<br />
Transcripts for Educator and Practitioner PSA Created at the Conference,<br />
May 31-June 1, 2008<br />
What was your motivation for coming to the Teaching Public Administration<br />
Conference<br />
Respondent #1: I wanted to see my colleagues eyeball-to-eyeball and hear what<br />
they’re doing in their classes … because their ideas give me fresh new ideas<br />
about what I can do.<br />
Respondent #2: I get re-energized by my colleagues. These are all very exciting<br />
people into the one thing of teaching public administration. They’re not out to<br />
impress anyone. They’re out to share their experiences.<br />
Respondent #3: And I hoped that here I might find one or more colleagues<br />
who might be interested in what I do.<br />
Respondent #4: Well, I very much enjoy the Teaching Public Administration<br />
Conference. A lot of my good friends are here.<br />
Respondent #5: I’m going to teach online, [an] undergraduate class in urban<br />
studies this fall. So, I came to find out some pedagogical techniques that I can<br />
use in my class.<br />
Respondent #6: My experiences is to share it with professors.<br />
Respondent #7: … was to get ideas on teaching and improving my teaching.<br />
How would you go about marketing the conference (Note: Question posed offcamera<br />
with chosen responses for the PSA displayed here.)<br />
Respondent #8: Professional responsibility of most faculty goes into three<br />
categories: service, research and teaching. And this is the only conference that<br />
addresses one-third of our professional responsibility in helping us to build skills<br />
in teaching.<br />
Respondent #1: You’ve got to meet the people who love teaching public<br />
administration. You’re going to gain something here that I don’t think you’re<br />
going to get anywhere else— a love for teaching, a passion for teaching, all<br />
kinds of ideas about how to teach. It’s not about content. It’s about how you’re<br />
going to make differences in people’s lives.<br />
What you can do<br />
Respondent #9: We think people need to create a tree structure by collecting<br />
the director’s names for the NASPAA schools and having the videos announced<br />
and distributed through those directors, especially to Ph.D. students and<br />
adjunct professors—in addition to the regular faculty.<br />
Respondent #10: As a champion of teaching excellence in public<br />
administration, your charge is to take this PSA, upload it onto your Web site,<br />
and distribute as broadly as possible. And, of course, come to the next TPAC<br />
[Teaching Public Administration] conference.<br />
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