Posts Tagged ‘foster faculty development’
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.
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:
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.
September 17 - Faculty Evaluation Serves Institutional, Individual Needs
By: Rob Kelly in Faculty Evaluation
The challenge of faculty evaluation is to simultaneously foster faculty development and fulfill the institution’s goals and mission, says Larry Braskamp, professor of Education at Loyola University Chicago and advocate of a humanistic approach to faculty evaluation.
“Evaluation involves setting the culture and climate for faculty to develop, and it has to take on an openness and respect for the individual to experiment and fail. You encourage faculty members to self-assess.
