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Pod Network News, January 31, 1984, Michele S. Fisher
Pod Network News, January 31, 1984, Michele S. Fisher
POD Network News
1. Results of the Core Committee elections
2. Call for Sessions, 1984 Conference
3. POD Summer Institute
4. POD's Program and Reception at AAHE
5. POD Membersip List ... Membership Directory
6. Book of Readings ... Under New Editorship
Call For Sessions
POD Network Conference Materials
Program Proposal Form for the Ninth National POD Conference, October 25-28, 1984, Asilomar, California
The Micro Network, Ron Boyer, Barb Florini
The Micro Network, Ron Boyer, Barb Florini
POD Network Conference Materials
Questions of Micro Network Members of POD, by Ron Boyer
Micro Computer Network Newsletter, volume 1, number 1, October 1984, editors: Ron Boyer & Barb Florini
Pod Network News, 1984, Luann Wilkerson
Pod Network News, 1984, Luann Wilkerson
POD Network News
1. 1984 CONFERENCE
2. POD MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY--SPECIAL EDITION
3. MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FOR 1984-1985
4. SUMMER TRAINING INSTITUTE
5. SURVEY OF POD-TYPE CENTERS AND PROGRAMS
6. CORE COMMITTEE ELECTIONS
7. 1985 POD CONFERENCE
8. RESOURCES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT, BOOK, PROJECT DESCRIPTION, BOOK, BOOK, BOOKS AND ARTICLES, VIDEOTAPE, MICROCOMPUTER MATERIAL, JOURNAL, ORGANIZATION
Pod Network News, 1984
POD Network News
THANKS TO MICHELE
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY
CORE COMMITTEE MEETING, March 17, 1984
1984 POD CONFERENCE
TO IMPROVE THE ACADEMY, 1984
1984 SUMMER TRAINING INSTITUTE
OTHER TRAINING RESOURCES
1985 POD CONFERENCE
Pod Conference Evaluation, Joyce Povlacs, Dan Wheeler
Pod Conference Evaluation, Joyce Povlacs, Dan Wheeler
POD Network Conference Materials
Expectations
In Medias Res
Evaluation
Pod Asilomar Conference Program
Pod Asilomar Conference Program
POD Network Conference Materials
Schedule Overview
You're here. This is Asllomar. Welcome to the 1984 conference.
Conference Committee
Asilomar and The Neighborhood
Opening
Assessment
Things You Can Get Up Front
Health & Fitness & Getting Outdoors
Monarchs Only
Business First
Everyperson's Computer Resource Room
A Clean Well-Lighted Space To Read
Spontaneously Generated Meetings
Connections
Survival Notes
Saturday Evening-Classical & Jazz
Session Schedule
Ocean, Beach, Tidepool Walk
Runners Route
Walk with the Butterflies (Park/Forest Trek)
Conference Planner
Program Highlights
Preliminary Sessions List
Registration Information
POD Network Conference Materials
1984 POD Conference
Registration Form
Letter, June 15, 1984, by Jan Buckwald-Scholl and Steve Scholl-Buckwald
Letter, August 24, 1984, by Jan Buckwald-Scholl, Steve Scholl-Buckwald, and Wini Anderson
Letter, October 10, 1984, by the Coordinating Committee
Asilomar Conference Center
Welcome to Asilomar
Join The Pod Network
POD Network Conference Materials
What is the POD Network?
What makes POD unique?
How does POD serve Its members?
The Annual Fall Conference
Publications
1983-84 Core Committee
An open invitation to participate
Membership Application
The Evaluation Of College Teaching, L. Dee Fink
The Evaluation Of College Teaching, L. Dee Fink
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
There are few tasks at a university more important than the evaluation of teaching. Without it, professors themselves are unable to determine the direction of needed improvement and thereby become vulnerable to the process of stagnation. Without it, academic units are unable to identify and encourage professors who truly are effective in the classroom with their students.
Individualized Consulting To Improve Teaching, Richard G. Tiberius
Individualized Consulting To Improve Teaching, Richard G. Tiberius
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Many of the readers of this volume are educational consultants or teachers whose primary interest lies in action. The first thing we want to know is how a method works and what it can do for us. Moreover, most of us are aware that methods are usually developed by trial and error and then justified within a set of assumptions about teaching and about human nature. Yet we often write about our methods of improving teaching as though they were logically derived from basic principles or suggested by a review of the literature. I will resist this tendency by relating …
Cognitive Growth Through Expressive Writing All That Jazz, Christopher C. Burnham
Cognitive Growth Through Expressive Writing All That Jazz, Christopher C. Burnham
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
I want to develop jazz as a metaphor for growth. Jazz, generally considered, signals incongruity in music. Something happens where it was not originally to happen or where nothing was scheduled to happen-and nobody minds. In fact, the surprise-the incongruity-is the energy of jazz. In more formal terms, the creative impulse of the musician assumes power. He or she improvises between set notes, or in a void the composer leaves for such improvisational purposes. The musician is free to play, literally and figuratively. Each influences the other; they enlarge each other and expand potentialities.
Faculty Helping Themselves To Improve Their Instructional Abilities, Henry B. Slotnick
Faculty Helping Themselves To Improve Their Instructional Abilities, Henry B. Slotnick
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The question of how to go about self-improvement is a continuing one, and one that is aggravated by scarce resources. How, in the absence of time, for example, do groups of faculty go about developing their competencies and expanding their awareness of professional issues? A Study group - as the one described here - is an approach that can work well for a variety of reasons, reasons which can be understood in terms of research on small groups and adult learners.
Editorial Matter 1984
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Foreword
Contents
About POD
Being Professional Academically, R. Eugene Rice
Being Professional Academically, R. Eugene Rice
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Over the past decade we have learned a great deal about faculty lives. New programs to address a wide-range of needs have been initiated and assessed, and research on faculty has moved ahead significantly. Much of the activity and concern with faculty development has come to focus on the academic career itself-the structure and meaning of academic work.
Career And Instructional Consulting With Higher Education Faculty, Daniel W. Wheeler, Lynn L. Mortensen
Career And Instructional Consulting With Higher Education Faculty, Daniel W. Wheeler, Lynn L. Mortensen
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Career Mindsets
Factors Contributing to Career Mindsets
Role of the Consultant
A Final Word
References
Hidden Opportunities For Faculty Development And Curricular Change, Russell Lee, Michael Field
Hidden Opportunities For Faculty Development And Curricular Change, Russell Lee, Michael Field
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Introduction
Development Benefits of Team-Teaching
Research and Curricular Development
Conclusions
References
Section V: Student Development: Intellectual Growth And Writing, Michael Davis
Section V: Student Development: Intellectual Growth And Writing, Michael Davis
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
A major tradition of higher education is excellence in written expression. In part, the tradition continues because many scholars are excellent writers and because writing shapes and clarifies our understanding of our own thoughts and actions. Students are urged to emulate quality writing with the expectation that quality thinking will be fostered. We do understand that the use of language is an instrument of thinking (Bruner, 1966) and that there is an interplay between writing and thinking (Vygotsky, 1962). The developmental theories of Jean Piaget (1968), Lawrence Kohlberg (1981), and William Perry (1981), suggest that the quality of writing may …
Section Iv: Using Evaluation For The Improvement Of Teaching, Laura A. Wilson
Section Iv: Using Evaluation For The Improvement Of Teaching, Laura A. Wilson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
One of the most important processes that takes place at any college or university is the evaluation of teaching. In spite of the fact that such evaluation has been done quarter after quarter, or semester after semester, for hundreds of years, we continue to search for new and better ways to relate the process to the improvement of classroom teaching. Questions are raised as to what kind of information to gather and from what sources; further, we ask how can the information be fed back to faculty so that they can use it to make changes that will make their …
Developmental Perspectives On Writing And Intellectual Growth In College, Joanne Kurfiss
Developmental Perspectives On Writing And Intellectual Growth In College, Joanne Kurfiss
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development and Gilligan's Critique
Perry's Theory Of Epistemological Development
Developmental Process
The Interdependence of Writing and Intellectual Development
Bibliography
Stages In The Development Of Analytic/ Argumentative Writing Abilities During The College Years, Janice N. Hays
Stages In The Development Of Analytic/ Argumentative Writing Abilities During The College Years, Janice N. Hays
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
For over a decade now, we have been bombarded with public reports about the wretched state of high school and college students' writing skills. In response to such publicity, the general public has called for a "return to the basics" in writing instruction, by which most people seem to mean return to an emphasis on grammar, usage, and spelling. In response to such pressures, the competency-testing movement appears to be focusing upon sentence-level "correctness" as the criterion of competency in writing.
Stages 1-6
Notes
Appendix
Topic B
Writing About Tougher Drunk Driving Laws for a Hostile Audience
Background
Essay Assignment …
Year-Long Faculty Discussion Groups: A Solution To Several Instructional Development Problems, L. Dee Fink
Year-Long Faculty Discussion Groups: A Solution To Several Instructional Development Problems, L. Dee Fink
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
People trying to establish an instructional development program on a college or university campus frequently face two major problems. One of these is simply the difficulty of acquainting the faculty with and interesting them in an activity that is generally not familiar to them. Compounding this problem is the not uncommon belief among faculty members that participating in something called instructional development is tantamount to admitting that they have a problem with their teaching, i.e., a "professional disease" that they cannot solve by themselves.
Staff Development In A Climate Of Retrenchment, Christopher K. Knapper
Staff Development In A Climate Of Retrenchment, Christopher K. Knapper
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Crisis Facing Higher Education
The Impact of Staff Development
The Promise of Instructional Technology
The Concept of Lifelong Education
Learning to Learn
Some Possible Solutions
Notes
References
Section Iii: Professional Development Interventions, Lance C. Buhl
Section Iii: Professional Development Interventions, Lance C. Buhl
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The successful pursuit of our business requires skillful interventions-in professional habits of mind and action. In truth, in peoples' lives. Probably more thought has gone into this issue than into any other aspect of professional development work. Interventions are the stuff of ethics, even when-as is usual in the case with the articles in this section-the focus is almost exclusively on techniques. The sensitivity to contexts, to rationale for choice, to outcomes, to people displayed by each author affirms the ethical dimension of specific interventions. Considered thus, the choice of techniques is important indeed.
Faculty Development As An Organizational Process, C. Edward Kaylor Jr., J. William Smith
Faculty Development As An Organizational Process, C. Edward Kaylor Jr., J. William Smith
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Background
Two Forms of Faculty Development
Management, Leadership, and Missions
Faculty Involvement as Development
Planning for Excellence Through Participation
Incentives and Personal Recognition
Conclusion
References
Motivating Faculty To Pursue Excellence In Teaching, Dean N. Osterman
Motivating Faculty To Pursue Excellence In Teaching, Dean N. Osterman
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Introduction
Patience
Getting a Start, Curriculum of Seminars, Advisory Committee, Networking Campus Resources, Innovative Funds, Establishing Ownership of a Program, Using Student Assistant/Volunteers, Individual Consultation
Priorities
Two Approaches at Innovation, Faculty Day Orientation and Departmental Presentations, Faculty Recognition for Quality Teaching, Establishing Visibility, Gaining Support from Administration, Faculty, and Students, Serving on Committees, Developing Materials and Using Micro-Computers, Teaching Courses on Campus, GTA Workshop, Evaluating Faculty, Informal Involvement with Faculty, Writing with Faculty
Polish
Keeping Innovation Alive
References
Footnotes
Reading Students' Written Comments On Evaluations Of Teaching, Joyce T. Povlacs
Reading Students' Written Comments On Evaluations Of Teaching, Joyce T. Povlacs
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
College teachers who make use of student surveys evaluating instruction frequently invite written comments, too. These remarks can clarify data gathered by use of a standard set of objective questions. Sometimes, however, the students' comments present a wide diversity of opinions. Statements in one class might range from "the material is interesting and very applicable" to a flat "the poorest teacher I have ever had." Instructors who venture to invite students to comment express frustration over seeming contradiction and consequently are tempted to dismiss the importance of written comments. Yet written comments can provide valuable insights leading to the improvement …
The Development Of Faculty As Teachers: A Multi-Faceted Approach To Change, Alton O. Roberts, John H. Clarke, David Holmes
The Development Of Faculty As Teachers: A Multi-Faceted Approach To Change, Alton O. Roberts, John H. Clarke, David Holmes
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Problem
Toward a Theory of Change
Figure 1: A Force Field Analysis of Influence on Faculty Self Improvement Efforts
The Vermont Program
Figure 2: Intended Impact of Programs on Forces for Change Driving Forces
A Scenario of Development
Conclusion
Figure 3: Interaction of one Professor with Development Options over Four Years
References
Section Ii: Renewing Centers For Professional Development, Lance C. Buhl
Section Ii: Renewing Centers For Professional Development, Lance C. Buhl
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
What do we know about infusing life into professional development programs? This is something we have struggled with throughout the fifteen (+3) year history of the contemporary professional development movement in postsecondary education. The question is especially pertinent during a time when "retrenchment" has lost its shock value and has become a tired, but accurate, descriptor of what most POD members live with daily. Is there programmatic life after retrenchment? If so, what can be done to ensure it and give it meaning?