Being A Great Listener, Durable Skills, and Investing in Students with Dan Garrity
In this episode Professor Dan Garrity shares wisdom on being a great listener, developing durable skills, investing in students, open ended challenges, finding people who excel in their field, and so much more.
1. Embrace humor
2. Have a legitimate love and care to hear someone else’s story
3. Become a good storyteller and understand the language that your audience speaks
4. Excite, put it into terms students understand, and then challenge them
5. Ask ourselves how do our students speak, how do our students learn
6. Develop durable skils
7. Look someone in the eye, show up on time, solutions instead of excuses
8. We need to help students learn how to work in teams.
9. How can we get students to invest into each other.
10 Invest in community building.
11. What’s wonderful? Tell me something cool that’s going on in your life.
12. Every voice should be heard
13. Make it known in your class that we are interested in you and we’re glad something wonderful happened to you
14. Celebrate the students missteps
15. Make sure your students have a smile when they walk in the door
16. Make it mean something to be in your class, this is where I fit in.
17. Have a good TAC (Technical Advisory Committee)
18. If you ask, people will be willing to help
19. Keep things fresh
20. Develop social listening
21. Give students open ended challenges that have a realness element to them
22. You can’t keep up with everything - so find people who are excelling in their field
23. You are part of something way bigger
24. Let others know I see your gifts so clearly - if you look for it you will find it.
Dan Garrity's Bio:
Professor Dan has 15 years experience in the professional television news industry. Starting out as a videographer and editor, he quickly took on reporting and anchoring roles then moved on to newsroom management. He's worked in variety of markets; from very small (San Angelo, TX) to top ten (Seattle). After leaving TV, Dan spent the entirety of the 21st Century dedicating his professional life to academia. In 2001 he accepted the role of Director of Broadcast Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. In 2018, he and his wife moved to Boise to be closer to family. Dan is a proud Air Force Veteran, where he flew combat reconnaissance missions during the Cold War as an airborne Russian linguist. He has an Associate's degree in Russian, a BA in Broadcasting, and a Master's degree in Communication Leadership. Most of all, he's proud and happy to have the opportunity to continue his vocation of teaching at the College of Western Idaho.
Twitter and Instagram: @ProfDanG