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The Freshman Seminar And Faculty Development, James P. Doyle
The Freshman Seminar And Faculty Development, James P. Doyle
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Addressing the Needs of Students
From Student Development to Faculty Development
A New Teaching Experience
Expanding the Classroom
Sharing Our Lives
Living Our Values
Section Iv: Faculty Development: Modeling Effective Practice
Section Iv: Faculty Development: Modeling Effective Practice
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Section IV, a plethora of practical ideas, is exceedingly valuable to developers; concrete models, innovative practices, and provocative case studies can be adapted to your own campuses.
Integrating Teaching And Research: A Multidimensional Career Model, Mary Pat Mann
Integrating Teaching And Research: A Multidimensional Career Model, Mary Pat Mann
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Academic Matrix: Teaching and Research
Career Choices and Role Orientation
Expanding Faculty Development
1. Support the overall career development of faculty members
2. Assist faculty in developing their general professional skills
3. Involve faculty in scholarly work directly related to their teaching
Conclusion
References
Reaching African-American Students In The Classroom, Jonathan Collett
Reaching African-American Students In The Classroom, Jonathan Collett
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Changing the Cultural Climate of Higher Education
The Challenge of Diversity at One Public College
African-American Students in the Traditional Classroom
Teaching Strategies for the Culturally Diverse Classroom
1. Awareness of our own culture-bound learning style
2. Tolerance of "disorder" and emotion
3. High expectations
4. Friendly intervention
5. Class sessions on cultural diversity
6. Frequent class evaluations
7. A pedagogical mix
A Mandate for Faculty Development in the 1990s
Notes
References
A Model For Infusing Cultural Diversity Concepts Across The Curriculum, Barbara Flannery, Maureen Vanterpool
A Model For Infusing Cultural Diversity Concepts Across The Curriculum, Barbara Flannery, Maureen Vanterpool
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Background
Purpose
Assumptions
Student Learning: Conceptual Frameworks for Culturally Receptive and Culturally Resistant Students
The Culturally Receptive Student: The Role of Cognitive and Affective Learning Objectives
The Culturally Resistant Student: Using Personal Relevance to Increase Salience of Cultural Diversity Concepts
A Model for Infusing Cultural Diversity Concepts Across the Curriculum: Combining Cognitive and Affective Learning Objectives and Personal Relevance
Applications of the Model: Two Case Studies
Teacher Education
Housing and Interior Design
Interdisciplinary Applications of the Model
References
Section Iii: Faculty Development: Seeing And Envisioning Ourselves
Section Iii: Faculty Development: Seeing And Envisioning Ourselves
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Practitioners must be aware of the state of the field as well as new visions. These three articles allow us to see who we are and to peek at who we may become.
The Hard-Easy Rule And Faculty Development, Robert Boice
The Hard-Easy Rule And Faculty Development, Robert Boice
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Hard-Easy Rule
The Hard-Easy Rule and Faculty Development
Implications for Faculty Development
Corollaries to the Hard-Easy Rule
Conclusions
References
Section Vi: Faculty: Looking At The Spectrum
Section Vi: Faculty: Looking At The Spectrum
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
When does the professor's career begin? What kind of preparation for the profession is needed? How do we feel as senior faculty? What can be done to solve the upcoming teacher shortage? Aren't there creative ways to retain some of our most talented faculty? These are a few of the issues addressed here.
State-Wide Faculty Development Conference Promotes Vitality, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Katherine H. Price
State-Wide Faculty Development Conference Promotes Vitality, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Katherine H. Price
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Need Addressed
Goals of the Conference
Ten Tips for State-wide Network Planners
1. Establish a State-wide Core Committee
2. Determine a Base of Coordination and Planning
3. Create Collaborative Systems of Support
4. Establish Faculty and Administrative Ownership
5. Pay Attention to Details of Conference Planning
6. Emphasize Local Versus Outside Expertise
7. Offer a Range of Learning Experiences
8. Schedule Time for Informal Contacts
9. Ask Participants to Evaluate the Conference
10. Set Out Plans for Follow-up Efforts
Directions for the Future
References
Appendix A
Faculty Development Through Faculty Luncheon Seminars: A Case Study Of Carnegie Mellon University, Susan A. Ambrose
Faculty Development Through Faculty Luncheon Seminars: A Case Study Of Carnegie Mellon University, Susan A. Ambrose
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Background
Genealogy of the Sessions
Outcomes
Conclusions
References
Transformational Faculty Development: Integrating The Feminine And The Masculine, Virginia Van Der Bogert, Kathleen T. Brinko, Sally S. Atkins, Ellen L. Arnold
Transformational Faculty Development: Integrating The Feminine And The Masculine, Virginia Van Der Bogert, Kathleen T. Brinko, Sally S. Atkins, Ellen L. Arnold
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Different Worlds, Different Values
Our Experience
Integrating the Masculine and the Feminine
Personal Development
Professional Development
Organizational Development
Conclusion
Words Associated with a Traditional and a Transformed Academy
References
Meeting The Challenge Of An Aging Professoriate: An Opportunity For Leadership, Arthur L. Crawley
Meeting The Challenge Of An Aging Professoriate: An Opportunity For Leadership, Arthur L. Crawley
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Issue of an Aging Professoriate: Perspectives in Conflict
Planning for Faculty Shortages on the Horizon
The Impact of "Uncapping" the Mandatory Retirement Age (MRA): Implications of Recent Findings
Overcoming the Myths Concerning an Aging Faculty
Reframing the Aging Issue: The Leadership Challenge
Providing an Opportunity Structure for Senior Faculty Renewal
Strategies for Renewal
Summary and Conclusions
References
Editorial Matter 1990
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Foreword, by Linda Hilsen, Editor
Contents
Senior Faculty Career Attitudes: Implications For Faculty Development, Robert A. Armour, Barbara S. Fuhrmann, Jon F. Wergin
Senior Faculty Career Attitudes: Implications For Faculty Development, Robert A. Armour, Barbara S. Fuhrmann, Jon F. Wergin
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Method
Findings
Satisfaction
Personal and Career Matters
Disciplinary Differences
Minority Differences
Gender Differences
Discussion
Implications for Faculty Development
References
The Faculty Developer As Witchdoctor: Envisioning And Creating The Future, Sally S. Atkins, Jon A. Hageseth, Ellen L. Arnold
The Faculty Developer As Witchdoctor: Envisioning And Creating The Future, Sally S. Atkins, Jon A. Hageseth, Ellen L. Arnold
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
From Production Toward Personal Meaning
From Individualism Toward Interconnectedness
From Centralization Toward Community and Personal Responsibility
From Science Toward Spirituality
Conclusion
References
The Teaching Initiative: With A $50,000 Gift From Allen Jossey-Bass, Aahe Launches A New Special Project On Teaching, Russell Edgerton
The Teaching Initiative: With A $50,000 Gift From Allen Jossey-Bass, Aahe Launches A New Special Project On Teaching, Russell Edgerton
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Preparing Faculty as Teachers
The Revival of Pedagogy
A Second Try at Turning Specialists into Professors
A Role for AAHE: The Teaching Initiative
Strategic Teaching: The Possible Dream, Linc. Fisch
Strategic Teaching: The Possible Dream, Linc. Fisch
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Strategic Teaching Process
Clarification of the Process
Making the Process Work
Reference
Current And Desired Faculty Development Practices Among Pod Members, Joanne Kurfiss, Robert Boice
Current And Desired Faculty Development Practices Among Pod Members, Joanne Kurfiss, Robert Boice
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Method and Sample
Results
Program Structure and Evaluation
Current and Desired Practices
Importance of Teaching
Views of Faculty Development
Discussion
References
Workshops On Writing Blocks Increase Proposal Activity, Robert A. Lucas, Mary Kathryn Harrington
Workshops On Writing Blocks Increase Proposal Activity, Robert A. Lucas, Mary Kathryn Harrington
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Workshops on Writing Blocks Produce Increases in Proposal Writing
Fear of Failure Is a Major Impediment to Proposal Writing
Achieving the Effect Requires Conscious Application of Strategies to Counter Writing Blocks
Writing System Significantly Benefits New Faculty
Inexperienced Faculty Have Special Access to Internal and External Grants
Conclusion
References
Strategies For Monitoring And Improving Seminars: An Application In A Course On Managing Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Paul Mangiameli, Seetharama Narasimhan, Glenn R. Erickson
Strategies For Monitoring And Improving Seminars: An Application In A Course On Managing Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Paul Mangiameli, Seetharama Narasimhan, Glenn R. Erickson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Course
Course Monitoring and Feedback Techniques
Using the Feedback
Discussion
References
Appendix
Section I: Teaching And Research: Coming Into Balance
Section I: Teaching And Research: Coming Into Balance
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Faculty developers have made painstaking progress in achieving a higher status for teaching in academe. Research and publication are revered in this occasionally mad-hatter world.
Section Ii: Teaching: Making It Even Better
Section Ii: Teaching: Making It Even Better
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This section progresses from a means for individual faculty members to examine their teaching, to an exploration of effective cooperative methods, to implementation of strategies for monitoring and improving a seminar course. It presents tools for personal development and instructional faculty development.
Section V: Diversity: Addressing The " ... Isms" Of The '90s
Section V: Diversity: Addressing The " ... Isms" Of The '90s
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
From the top floor to the basement, the institution is buzzing with conversations concerning the multifarious needs of our diverse student population. Let us begin this decade by confronting areas where concentrated attention is immediately necessary: racism, ageism, sexism. The need for faculty and students alike to increase their awareness of and sensitivity to cultural differences is obvious.
Department Heads As Faculty Developers: Six Case Studies, Myra S. Wilhite
Department Heads As Faculty Developers: Six Case Studies, Myra S. Wilhite
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Participants
Results
Preliminary Information about Chairpersons
Behaviors Used for Faculty Development
Summary
Limitations of the Study
Recommendations
Bibliography
Helping Faculty Build Learning Communities Through Cooperative Groups, Barbara J. Millis
Helping Faculty Build Learning Communities Through Cooperative Groups, Barbara J. Millis
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
What is Cooperative Learning?
Cooperative Learning Strategies
Research on Cooperative Learning
The Value of Cooperative Learning
References
Developing Teaching Skills During Graduate Education, Robert M. Diamond, Franklin P. Wilbur
Developing Teaching Skills During Graduate Education, Robert M. Diamond, Franklin P. Wilbur
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The Teaching Background of New Faculty
Administrative Options
Formal Instruction in Teaching
Courses Offered by Schools or Colleges of Education
Teaching Assistant Training Programs
Program Content
Common Elements
Case Studies
Where to Begin
Summary
References