INNOVATIVE TEACHING SHOWCASE

Identifies successful and unsuccessful fundraising campaigns and nonprofit organizational efforts in order to interpret and evaluate evidence. Develops a comprehensive analysis of the philanthropic landscape of the United States. Uses evidence-based practices to guide fundraising campaign strategies. Accesses information using effective, well-designed search strategies and most appropriate information sources.

Identifies professional opportunities and evaluates appropriate application approaches. Determines legitimacy and value of opportunities based on research of industry, company, or organization. Describes diversity of skills clearly. Articulates experience working with teams, including leadership and supporting roles.

Identifies and articulate causes of personal or community importance. Determines what shortcomings exist in the promotion of a given cause. Explains significance of advocacy effort for a given cause based on statistical and anecdotal evidence as it applies.

Specific position is imaginative, taking into account the complexities of an issue. Limits of position are acknowledged. Others� points of view are synthesized within the position. Thoroughly analyses own and others� assumptions and carefully evaluates the relevance of contexts when presenting a position related to support of a cause. Cultivates culture of philanthropy among donors of all socioeconomic levels.

Potential employer is understood as an audience to whom one writes. Industry HR practices are understood and largely adhered to. Marketing of academic and unpaid experience as transferrable skills is evident.

Multiple viewpoints are considered in the development of advocacy strategy. Demographics considered include age, race, socioeconomics, sex, gender, orientation, and profession, place of origin, geopolitical stance, ability, size, social perception and stigmas, among countless others. Tailors communication strategies to effectively express, listen, and adapt to others to establish relationships to further civic action.

Conclusions and related outcomes (consequences and implications) are logical and reflect students� informed evaluation and ability to place evidence and perspectives discussed in priority order. Build fundraising campaign strategies based on evidence and consideration of stakeholders.

Articulates academic successes as marketable employee skills. Identify and describe positive professional behavioral traits evident in experience and knowledge. Analyze companies to determine proper employee/employer fit. Systematic understanding of integration into organizational culture as a newcomer. Engage positive teambuilding strategies.

Explicitly describes assumptions and provides compelling rationale for why each assumption is appropriate. Shows awareness that confidence in final conclusions is limited by the accuracy of the assumptions.

Effectively define the scope of the organizational or campaign effort. Identify and explain the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to a given effort. Develop a fundraising plan reflective of the community in which it will be implemented.

Confidently describes academic and nonpaid experience as valuable professional development. Identifies strengths and skills for employer. Clearly identifies mutual benefits of employment acquisition.

Demonstrates ability and commitment to work actively within community contexts and structures to achieve a civic aim. Connects and extends knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from one�s own academic study/field/discipline to civic engagement and to one�s own participation in civic life.

Identifies a creative, focused, and manageable campaign effort that addresses potentially significant yet previously less-explored aspects of fundraising. Promotional language choices are imaginative, memorable and compelling. Marketing communication enhances the effectiveness of fundraising efforts by using a compelling (precisely stated, appropriately repeated, memorable, and strongly supported) central message. Language choices represent appropriate attention to audience consideration. Asks complex questions about other cultures, seeks out and articulates answers to those questions which reflect multiple cultural perspectives.

Understand potential employers as key audience members when creating job application materials. Research and identify key elements of organizational culture, values and mission. Reflect organizational or industry standards in written, verbal, and nonverbal communication. Considers culture as a panacea.

Identifies key proponents and likely supporters of chosen cause. Designs strategies for recruitment of donor and volunteer support. Implements vast marketing strategies to successfully connect stakeholders to cause.

Organizes and synthesizes evidence to reveal insightful patterns, differences, or similarities related to the focus and approach of fundraising campaign. Proposes one or more approaches that indicates a deep comprehension of audience and intention. Presents solutions sensitive to contextual factors and with attention to reception.

Creates application materials and professional documents reflective of monitoring and adjusting strategies in consideration of nuances in a given industry, location, or organization.

Describes the need for support in clear and concise terms. Skillfully explains mutual benefits of donor support. Converts relevant information into a portrayal that contributes to a further or deeper understanding of the advocacy issue.

Design event and promotional marketing and promotion materials aligned with vision and stakeholder needs. Research successful strategies for marketing various campaign approaches and build outreach materials to support campaign. Incorporate feedback into revision processes to ensure outreach efforts are well received.

Designs professional and application materials through a series of revisions and in consideration of numerous reviews and feedback sessions. Offers feedback on the work of colleagues in constructive form. Revisions include attention to audience consideration, organizational mission and values, stakeholders, language, and visual formatting composition.

Uses revision in the design process of promotional materials.

Creates and disseminates professional written materials in promotion and marketing efforts for a given campaign. Creates press releases and other written media to support cause, inform audience, and call them to action.

Designs professional and application materials through a series of revisions and in consideration of numerous reviews and feedback sessions. Demonstrates highest standards of professionalism through written communication.

Identifies a creative, focused, and manageable fundraising effort that addresses organizational or community gaps in provision of goods or services. Designs strategies for fundraising and community action based on stakeholder insight, evidence-based practice, and relational complexities.

Insightfully discusses in detail relevant and supported information and implications relating to career searches.

Determines organizational legitimacy prior to enveloping ones� self in promotion and fundraising for cause.

Thoroughly analyses own and others� assumptions and carefully evaluates the relevance of contexts when presenting a position.

Explores a topic in depth yielding a rich awareness and/or little known information indicating intense interest in the subject.

Makes explicit references to previous learning and applies in an innovative way that knowledge and those skills to demonstrate comprehension and performance in novel situations. Educational interests and pursuits exist and flourish outside classroom requirements. Completes required work while generating and pursuing opportunities to expand knowledge, skills, and abilities. Knowledge and/or experiences are pursued independently. Synthesizes in depth information from relevant sources representing various points of view and approaches.

When prompted, presents examples, facts, or theories from more than one field of study or perspective as they relate to professional development universally. Meaningfully synthesizes connections among individual and collective experiences outside of the formal classroom to deepen understanding of fields of study and to broaden own points of view.

Fulfills assignments by choosing formats, graphs, or other representations in ways that enhance meaning, making clear the interdependence of language, thought, meaning, and expression. Organizes and synthesizes evidence to reveal insightful patterns, differences, or similarities related to focus.

Use correctly all information strategies, and demonstrate a full understanding of the ethical and legal restrictions on the use of published or confidential information. Effectively addresses significant issues in the natural and human world based on articulating one�s identity within a global context. Considers ramifications of information presentation on stakeholders. Takes informed and responsible action to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges in global systems and evaluates the local and broader consequences of individual and collective interventions.

Reviews prior learning (past experiences inside and outside of the classroom) in depth to reveal significantly changes perspectives about educational, professional and life experiences, which provide foundation for expanded knowledge, growth, and maturity over time. Discusses texts and other sources with an independent intellectual and ethical disposition so as to further or maintain disciplinary conversations surrounding ethics. Can independently apply ethical perspectives/concepts to an ethical questions, accurately, and is able to consider full implications of the application.

Adapts and applies a deep understanding of multiple worldviews, experiences, and power structures while initiating meaningful interaction with other cultures to support causes of import while considering larger implications of advocacy work.