Posts Tagged ‘college faculty development’
June 9 - Two Lessons Learned at The Teaching Professor Conference
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
I’m just back from The Teaching Professor Conference. Part of what makes the event so successful is the way it confronts faculty with how much there is to learn about teaching and learning, and how much of that learning can be achieved by working with one another. Each year I am inspired by the insights participants bring to the conference and share freely with others.
April 20 - Strategies for Growing a Campus-Wide Professional Development Program
By: Bonnie Snyder in Faculty Development
Professional development is essential for maintaining and developing the skills of higher education employees. Beyond educating students, colleges also have to keep faculty and administrators continually updated with the latest technology, changes in enrollment characteristics, and larger societal issue so that they can help students be more successful.
February 1 - “Learningful” Conversations: The Value of Exchanges with Colleagues
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
I’ve been reading pedagogical literature for a long time and so I don’t often come upon a topic I haven’t seen before. But this week I came across one — it was an article on conversation in an international faculty development journal.
January 27 - Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Program
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Professional development promotes the vitality of your campus community and supports long-term student success. This seminar will give you the framework you need to develop and implement a successful professional development program for your campus.
January 21 - How to Evaluate the Impact of Faculty Development Programs
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Effective faculty development programs deliver valuable training and can greatly enhance teaching and learning at your college or university. When they are ineffective, however, they can be a big waste of everyone’s time and money. We’ll show you how to measure the success of your faculty development efforts.
October 20 - More on Working With Part-Time Faculty to Enhance Teaching and the Curriculum: A Top 10 List
By: Richard Leblanc and Sandra Scott in Faculty Development
Editor’s Note: In yesterday’s article, the authors introduced steps for overcoming some of the administrative challenges when working with part-time faculty. Here, in part two of the article, they outline strategies for overcoming some of the pedagogical challenges.
June 23 - Helping Faculty to be Engaged and Productive
By: Rob Kelly in Faculty Development
Academic leaders can have a tremendous effect on faculty satisfaction and productivity. Part of the responsibility of being an academic leader is to provide appropriate guidelines and support to foster faculty productivity throughout their careers, says Susan Robison, a psychology professor at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. In an interview with Academic Leader, she offered the following advice on how to support faculty:
April 2 - Learning from Experience: How Teaching is Like Golf
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development
Management professor David A. Whetten, who now directs a faculty development center, admits with honesty that for some years he didn’t think there was much he could learn from people who “studied” education. After all, he was in the classroom doing education and had learned much from that experience. In a wonderful piece [see reference below] he explains how a conversation with his golf instructor resulted in an important insight about the nature of experiential learning.
March 1 - Strategies for Teaching What You Just Learned
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Budget cuts, changing curricula and an increasing focus on interdisciplinary courses are just some of the pressures forcing instructors out of accustomed subject areas and into unfamiliar teaching territory. Get valuable recommendations for remaining an effective instructor, even when teaching outside your comfort zone.
December 16 - Tips for Building a Personal Learning Network on Campus and Online
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development
Colleagues can play such an important role in our development as teachers, yet most of the time we don’t make use of them in ways that really help us grow pedagogically. We spend time with faculty who inhabit offices near ours sharing pedagogical pleasantries, noting our successes and those of our students, or complaining about the lack of institutional support for teaching or the poor performance of this year’s entering class.
