Posts Tagged ‘faculty professional development’
August 5 - Take Control: Planning Your Professional Development
By: Vickie Kelly, EdD in Faculty Development
As higher education budgets for professional development have shrunk in the last few years, it has become more important than ever to plan your professional development goals in a meaningful way. What is it you want to accomplish in the next year? Do you want to become a better instructor, research a specific area, or just attain the funds to attend that great meeting? All of these are goals that you can use to design your comprehensive professional development plan.
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.
November 5 - Lifelong Learning: Discovering and Developing Your Teaching Skills
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of all knowledge,” writes C. Roland Christensen, one of the true masters of discussion teaching. He is referring to his development as a teacher—how he arrived at the techniques that made him so effective. Most teacher accounts of growth are not as instructive and insightful as this one. Best of all, the approach he used to develop his discussion leadership skills is one that can be used to develop many teaching skills.
October 15 - When Mentoring New Faculty, Don’t Ignore These Issues
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development
Beginning college teachers benefit when they have an instructional mentor. That fact is well established; as is the fact that mentoring benefits those who mentor. The influx of new faculty over the past few years has caused mentoring programs to flourish. All kinds of activities have been proposed so that mentors and mentees can spend their time together profitably. Addressed less often are those instructional topics particularly beneficial for the experienced and less-experienced teachers to address. Here’s a list of possibilities.
January 20 - Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Evaluation
Hiring, promotion, and tenure activities are full of risk and potential landmines. Poor hiring decisions are not only costly, but the hiring process itself opens the institution up to litigation if everyone on the hiring committee is not trained properly.
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.
August 20 - Tenure-track Positions Continue to Feel the Pinch
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Careers
As college teachers, most of us know that the profession is changing, but we aren’t always as up on the details as we should be. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, between 2001 and 2003 only 54 percent of the faculty hired were appointed to full-time positions, and 35 percent of all full-time
October 23 - Time Management Strategies for Academic Leaders
By: Christian Hansen, Ph.D. in Faculty Development
About three years ago, having served four years as department chair and having gone through the typical headaches that people in my position go through, I began studying and practicing time management techniques. After adopting some simple strategies, I find that the job I do today is much more effective and enjoyable than when I began my current leadership position. In this article I will share some key time management principles that you can implement on your own.
