Posts Tagged ‘professional development’
May 19 - Faculty Learning Communities: Benefiting from Collective Wisdom
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning, Teaching Professor Blog
An article in the January-February issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching reports on the experiences of a group of life sciences faculty who participated in a faculty learning community. “We wanted to bring together life sciences faculty members who would discuss and support each others’ teaching and learning goals, breaking down the communication barrier that characterizes most teaching activities in the sciences.” (p. 39)
May 14 - Striking a Balance between Who You are and Realizing Your Teaching Potential
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Professor Blog
Here’s what I’ve been trying to figure out this weekend—how teachers balance between accepting who they are at the same time they push to realize as much of their teaching potential as possible.
May 5 - Taking Professional Development Seriously
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Professor Blog
I have been struggling all morning to rewrite a chapter in my new book that has organizational problems. I was hoping the reviewers wouldn’t notice, but they did. I’m okay with the ideas. I think they make sense and put the right kind of frame around the rest of the book, but they don’t hang together like a frame. The chapter seems more like a mobile of free hanging ideas that loosely associate and occasionally bang into each other.
April 30 - Looking Forward to The Teaching Professor Conference
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development, Teaching Professor Blog
I believe I did a blog along these lines about this time last year—about The Teacher Professor Conference (this year June 5-7 in Washington, D.C., info at www.teachingprofessor.com). We would love to have you join us. We work very hard to make it a great event, and so far I’ve been very proud of how these conferences have turned out. There’s a variety of sessions, all carefully selected, many of which participants tells us are over-the-top excellent. We bring some big names to the conference—people you can really learn from as well as vendors with resources on teaching and learning. It’s a short compact schedule and by most standards, it’s not an expensive conference.
January 20 - False Assumptions Beginning Teachers Make
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development, Philosophy of Teaching
Lately I’ve been wondering if there’s a set of initial assumptions made about teaching and learning that inhibit instructional growth and development. Here is list of a few of these assumptions, and why I think they make teaching excellence less attainable.
