Faculty Advisor Program

The MyPoliSciLab Faculty Advisor Program is a peer-to-peer mentoring program that partners experienced MyPoliSciLab users with new and potential users to further enhance their knowledge, skill and understanding of how to successfully integrate MyPoliSciLab in the classroom. Our Faculty Advisors (FAs) are committed to advancing the support for online learning and sharing their best practices with the MyPoliSciLab community.

Meet Our Faculty Advisors

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  Laura Wood

  Professor of History and Government
  Tarrant County College, Northwest
  MyPoliSciLab, MyHistoryLab

  As an award-winning instructor at Tarrant County College for over 20 years, I teach four different courses each semester in three different formats in a total of seven classes: on campus, dual-credit two-way interactive television, and online, and I incorporate technology extensively into my classrooms.

  My courses include World Civilizations I and II, United States History to 1876, United States History Since 1877, and U.S. Government. In the past I have team taught an Honors Western Civilizations I course, developed a course focusing upon America and World War II, and team taught a World Civilizations/Interpersonal Communications travel course to the Salzburg Global Seminar. I have taught in the Honors Program and developed year-long projects for our students, such as directing the construction of an on-campus war memorial. With my background in European history, International Relations and Military History, I teach American history and politics in a global context.

  I also work as a developer of various teaching pedagogy for textbook publishers, write online interactive historical simulations, and train other faculty how to successfully incorporate technology into their teaching styles. Also, I use new technologies to create innovative assignments that foster student interest in history, historical analysis, and global perspectives.

  In 2001 I was awarded my district's Chancellor's Award for Exemplary Teaching as well as chosen as a Minnie Stevens' Piper Professor for the State of Texas. I have also been a nominee for the U.S. Professor of the Year, named to Who's Who Among American College Professors for twelve years, and served for twelve years as department chair.

  As part of my research and teaching, I have participated in the Salzburg Global Seminar, been chosen as a Freeman Fellow, and participated in the NEH Summer Seminar in Rome. In 2010 I received an NEH Teaching Development Fellowship to create an online interactive teaching website and database that incorporates world history, war memorials and military cemeteries to teach about public memory and commemorations across time and place.

  Courses taught: U.S. Government (at this time)

  Course format: Traditional, Online and Hybrid

  Book in use: O'Connor & Sabato, U.S. Government Roots and Reform

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