Posts Tagged ‘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.
June 22 - The World of Pedagogical Knowledge
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development, Teaching Professor Blog
A number of our professional associations (most often in the large disciplines) have separate organizations or subgroups within the association that are focused on teaching and learning. Does your field have such an organization? If so, I would encourage you to consider attending events hosted by the group. There is such energy generated when folks who care about teaching convene to explore issues and share ideas.
June 15 - A Tired Teacher
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Professor Blog
Last week I met a tired teacher—23 years of teaching at a two-year institution. That’s a lot of teaching; many times it was year round. He didn’t say he was tired. He said he was thinking about a career change. “Teaching’s become work, a job, no different than slicing meat at the deli counter.”
May 18 - Lessons: Humility, Acceptance, and a Commitment to Improvement
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development, Teaching Professor Blog
We can all improve. And we should feel at least some responsibility to do so. I also don’t think we reckon as we should with the fact that teaching skills don’t stay the same, at least not for very long. Either we are improving or the opposite is happening.
May 14 - Do Take Care
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development, Teaching Professor Blog
The Teaching Professor Conference is next week, and it’s a sold-out event. More than 800 of us will gather in Cambridge outside Boston for this event. If this year’s conference is like previous ones, it will be a high-energy event with virtually nonstop talk about teaching and learning Despite some exhaustion by the time it’s
January 26 - Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership
By: Jeffrey Buller, PhD. in Academic Leadership
Colleges and universities have realized increasingly that effective teaching by instructors and successful learning by students does not occur through serendipity. Even though more and more graduate programs are providing doctoral students with experience and training in how to teach at the college level, many faculty members still reach their positions largely through an education based on how to perform research, not on how to include students in that research or train others in their disciplines.
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
August 14 - How to Train and Maintain Your Distant Faculty
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
When online instructors work off-campus, as many often do, it can pose unique challenges. The lack of contact with colleagues and the institution can lead to isolation, and drifting out of the main currents of technological and pedagogical innovation.
July 13 - Applying Learning Agreements in the Classroom
By: Loren Kleinman in Teaching and Learning
As a former editor in the business profession and now educator, I see connections between business and classroom best practices, especially applying professional development plans and performance reflection exercises as academic learning agreements in order to promote student leadership and engagement.
June 25 - Five Tips for Designing an Online Faculty Workshop
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration
What is the best way to train and support a beginning online faculty member? At some colleges, the only option is on site training held on the campus over a day, a weekend, or a period of days during the summer. These on-site workshops, while potentially very effective, commit the faculty members to time, travel, and often inflexible scheduling. However, Berkeley College, with campuses in New York and New Jersey, has designed an online faculty workshop and set of training and support tools to complement its other professional development offerings.
