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Full-Text Articles in Curriculum and Instruction
Changes In Teaching At Western 1980-2000 And Beyond, Martha C. Jenkins
Changes In Teaching At Western 1980-2000 And Beyond, Martha C. Jenkins
FaCET Publications
Jenkins briefly covers eight areas in which teaching at Western Kentucky University changed from 1980-2000. Topics lightly touch on everything from the use of technology to student diversity in the classroom.
Volume 13, Number 02, Don Forrester Editor
Volume 13, Number 02, Don Forrester Editor
Reaching Through Teaching
Full text of Volume 13, Number 02 of Reaching Through Teaching.
Fostering Liberatory Teaching: A Proposal For Revising Instructional Assessment Practices, Jane E. Hindman
Fostering Liberatory Teaching: A Proposal For Revising Instructional Assessment Practices, Jane E. Hindman
Publications and Research
Appraises the assumptions that drive standard evaluation methods and compares them to those assumptions that undergird more critical approaches to teaching. Presents an alternative teacher evaluation instrument and explains how it more accurately measures what is said and believed to be effective teaching. Offers statistical evidence supporting the instrument and suggests further steps to foster teaching practices
Drama Methodology And Its Usage In Removing Barriers To English Language Acquisition In Japanese University Students, C Malcom Barry Duff
Drama Methodology And Its Usage In Removing Barriers To English Language Acquisition In Japanese University Students, C Malcom Barry Duff
MA TESOL Collection
This paper examines how drama methodology can be used to remove barriers to English acquisition and to encourage English language production in Japanese university students. The effect of the affective filter and Monitor use in language production will be covered. The use of drama methodology will be analyzed and its usage in the classroom evaluated. The use of drama techniques to create lessons will be demonstrated.
Teaching Systems Science In High School Compared To Graduate School, Wayne W. Wakeland
Teaching Systems Science In High School Compared To Graduate School, Wayne W. Wakeland
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper compares System Dynamic models built by graduate students to those built by high school students. The motivation behind this comparison is to explore the question: "How effectively is feedback-oriented system dynamics being taught in secondary schools compared to graduate school?" The paper will also speculate regarding implications for other systems concepts.
Foundations Of Collaboration, Gail Goodyear Muir, Sally S. Blake
Foundations Of Collaboration, Gail Goodyear Muir, Sally S. Blake
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Specific ideologies are forwarded by learning, socio-political, and religious theories using collaboration, consensus, and cooperation. Examination of the foundations of these processes reveals the values required of participants.
Creating An Inclusive Learning Environment, Terrie Nolinske
Creating An Inclusive Learning Environment, Terrie Nolinske
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Students bring differences relating to life experiences, attitudes, age, religion, discipline, and learning styles into the classroom. This essay offers strategies to promote diversity awareness and an inclusive learning environment.
Living Up To Expectations, Steven M. Richardson
Living Up To Expectations, Steven M. Richardson
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
“Poor preparation” is often a symptom of mismatched expectations. By communicating expectations early and with a plan for offering help as needed, we can minimize these problems.
Higher Level Learning: A Taxonomy For Identifying Different Kinds Of Significant Learning, L. Dee Fink
Higher Level Learning: A Taxonomy For Identifying Different Kinds Of Significant Learning, L. Dee Fink
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
An in-depth look at strategies for Higher Level Learning.
Helping Students (Better) Evaluate And Validate Www Resources, David L. Graf
Helping Students (Better) Evaluate And Validate Www Resources, David L. Graf
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Faculty need strategies to assure that students can process information from the WWW responsibly. Such strategies include developing web-savvy assignments and requiring demonstration of critical review of the material.
The Legacy Of John Dewey, David Halliburton
The Legacy Of John Dewey, David Halliburton
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
John Dewey’s educational legacy embraces wide-ranging views on the relation of teaching to learning and to other key issues in education.
Fostering Students' Moral Development, Lion F. Gardiner
Fostering Students' Moral Development, Lion F. Gardiner
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
The development of students’ ethical behavior has been an aim of college faculty for centuries. This essay reviews research and ways of fostering principled ethical reasoning.
Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside Of Class, Graham Gibbs
Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside Of Class, Graham Gibbs
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Shifting focus from teaching to Learning includes shifting attention from in-class to out-of-class learning activity. This essay offers strategies for understanding and controlling students’ outside learning activity.
The Challenge And Test Of Our Values: An Essay Of Collective Experience, Kay Herr Gillespie
The Challenge And Test Of Our Values: An Essay Of Collective Experience, Kay Herr Gillespie
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Departing from a specific experience at the 1998 POD conference, the values of the organization—most specifically and directly the “valuing of peopk”—were challenged and put to the test of whether or not we genuinely and sincerely strive to actualize our values. This situation is generalizable to our daily professional and personal lives, and the essay invites readers’ reflection through an examination of our values in combination with the story. The challenge continues, and the test is not finished.
Student Collaboration In Faculty Development: Connecting Directly To The Learning Revolution, Milton D. Cox, D. Lynn Sorenson
Student Collaboration In Faculty Development: Connecting Directly To The Learning Revolution, Milton D. Cox, D. Lynn Sorenson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Although faculty developers have worked successfully with faculty to focus on ways to enhance learning and listen to student voices, developers have rarely formed partnerships with students. This chapter reviews established practices involving students directly in faculty development, such as student observer/consultant programs. It also describes the nature, dynamics, and outcomes of some interesting new programs involving students in teaching development activities, thereby empowering students to join developers as change agents ofcampus culture. Finally, this chapter raises issues for faculty developers to reflect on as they consider establishing direct connections-partnerships-with students.
Finding Key Faculty To Influence Change, Joan K. Middendorf
Finding Key Faculty To Influence Change, Joan K. Middendorf
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
To succeed in getting faculty to accept new teaching approaches, academic support professionals can benefit from the literature on planned change. By understanding the different rates at which faculty accept change, we can also identify the faculty most likely to lead their colleagues to accepting new approaches. Opinion leaders can offer insight into faculty reactions to new approaches; their involvement in project planning can influence acceptance. Innovators, when selected carefully, can demonstrate and test new teaching approaches. Knowledge of when and how to involve these two kinds of faculty can reduce frustration and enhance efforts to spread new ideas about …
Teachnology: Linking Teaching And Technology In Faculty Development, Mei-Yau Shih, Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Teachnology: Linking Teaching And Technology In Faculty Development, Mei-Yau Shih, Mary Deane Sorcinelli
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
As a coordinator of teaching technologies and director of a center for teaching in a large research university, we have worked collaboratively over the last year to achieve a common goal: to implement and refine several faculty development initiatives that create linkages among the domains of teaching, learning, and technology. In this case study, we will describe the kinds of programs we’ve developedand summarize lessons we’ve learned. We hope that faculty developers on other campuses who are grappling with how to define their mission related to technology and how to work with faculty to integrate teaching and technology can adapt …
Qilt: An Approach To Faculty Development And Institutional Self–Improvement, Mike Laycock
Qilt: An Approach To Faculty Development And Institutional Self–Improvement, Mike Laycock
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
In a climate of increasing emphasis on quality assurance and extra-institutional quality scrutiny, the author argues that faculty developers have a role in encouraging an enhancement-led culture. Faculty ownership of,and responsibility far, continuous quality improvement can help to provide an engagement with teaching and learning issues and may help to overcome resistance and mistrust. At the University of East London, UK, an enabling, whole-institutional framework called QILT (Quality Improvement in Learning and Teaching), whereby faculty create and implement funded improvement plans, has helped to generate this culture.
Transforming Introductory Psychology: Trading Ownership For Student Success, Randall E. Osborne, William Browne, Susan J. Shapiro, Walter F. Wagor
Transforming Introductory Psychology: Trading Ownership For Student Success, Randall E. Osborne, William Browne, Susan J. Shapiro, Walter F. Wagor
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
As colleges struggle to maintain enrollments, many have shifted from a primary focus on recruitment of new students to an increased focus on retaining students once they begin attending the college or university. An examination of introductory courses on our campus, however, revealed significant differences between faculty perceptions of student skills and the actual skills students brought into the classroom. This prompted shifts in the manner in which we teach introductory psychology on our campus in order to enhance the skills necessary for success in survey courses and to provide a foundation of learning and thinking skills that would translate …
Creating A Culture Of Formative Assessment: The Teaching Excellence And Assessment Partnership Project, Roseanna G. Ross, Anthony Schwaller, Jenine Helmin
Creating A Culture Of Formative Assessment: The Teaching Excellence And Assessment Partnership Project, Roseanna G. Ross, Anthony Schwaller, Jenine Helmin
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
In a year-long, grant-supported collaborative effort, St. Cloud State University’s Assessment Office and Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence created a Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) faculty development project. This project was targeted at departments across campus at St. Cloud State University, with the intent of creating a university climate of formative assessment while improving teaching and learning. This article describes the purposes, stages of implementation, and results of the project as measured by a pre-test and post-test survey. The pre-and post-test surveys indicate that the project was highly effective in impacting the use of CATs among participants and their departmental colleagues.
Preface, Volume 18 (2000), Matthew Kaplan
Preface, Volume 18 (2000), Matthew Kaplan
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Preface to volume 18 (2000) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, written by Matthew Kaplan of the University of Michigan.
Diversity And Its Discontents: Rays Of Light In The Faculty Development Movement For Faculty Of Color, Edith A. Lewis
Diversity And Its Discontents: Rays Of Light In The Faculty Development Movement For Faculty Of Color, Edith A. Lewis
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Two faculty development conferences held within a six-day period during October 1998 yielded important experiences and lessons for faculty and professionals interested in working with faculty of color. This paper, written from the standpoint of a faculty member of color, outlines the strengths and challenges of working on these issues in higher education institutions.
On The Path: Pod As A Multicultural Organization, Christine A. Stanley, Matthew L. Ouellet
On The Path: Pod As A Multicultural Organization, Christine A. Stanley, Matthew L. Ouellet
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Since 1993, the Professional and Organizational Development Network (POD) has made an increasingly stronger commitment to becoming a multicultural organization. Poised at the entrance to a new century, it seems useful to examine the current standing of this goal in the context of the overall growth and development of POD. In this article the authors take stock of the organization’s history related to multiculturalism, discuss POD’s current organizational strengths and challenges related to models of multicultural organizational development, and offer suggestions for further progress on the path to becoming a multicultural organization.
From Transparency Toward Expertise: Writing–Across–The–Curriculum As A Site For New Collaborations In Organizational, Faculty, And Instructional Development, Philip G. Cottell Jr., Serena Hansen, Kate Ronald
From Transparency Toward Expertise: Writing–Across–The–Curriculum As A Site For New Collaborations In Organizational, Faculty, And Instructional Development, Philip G. Cottell Jr., Serena Hansen, Kate Ronald
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This paper will inform readers about a comprehensive approach to collaborative efforts between faculty developers, discipline specific faculty, and writing specialists. Miami University’s Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration has begun to support a team of writing specialists, led by a faculty developer. This team has worked with business faculty lo build a model of collaboration far using Writing-Across-the-Curriculum that addresses some of the shortcomings of earlier models. This paper recounts the successful use of this new model in one accounting class.
Faculty Teaching Partners And Associates: Engaging Faculty As Leaders In Instructional Development, Myra S. Wilhite, Joyce Povlacs Lunde, Gail F. Latta
Faculty Teaching Partners And Associates: Engaging Faculty As Leaders In Instructional Development, Myra S. Wilhite, Joyce Povlacs Lunde, Gail F. Latta
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Special interest discussion groups provide opportunities for faculty to address specific instructional issues in a variety of areas including technology, distance learning, general teaching topics, pre-tenure issues, honors teaching, and the like. In 1995, to leverage the Teaching and Learning Center’s resources, outstanding classroom teachers were invited to provide leadership for discussion groups by serving as Partners or Associates. This chapter describes how an inexpensive faculty discussion-group leadership program maximizes a teaching improvement center’s resources, makes innovative teaching visible, and provides peer models for other faculty while helping promote an overall institutional culture that actively supports teaching excellence.
Fragmentation Versus Integration Of Faculty Work, Carolin Kreber, Patricia Cranton
Fragmentation Versus Integration Of Faculty Work, Carolin Kreber, Patricia Cranton
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Present faculty development practice encourages new faculty to integrate teaching, research, and other aspects of academic work early in their careers. By drawing on both the cognitive and the developmental psychology literature, we propose integration as an advanced stage of adult development that comes about as a result of extensive experience and expertise. We argue that faculty should be advised to focus on either research or teaching at different times during their early years and that integration of professorial roles should only be expected at a later stage. We discuss the implications of such an approach for faculty development.
Getting Lecturers To Take Discussion Seriously, Stephen Brookfield, Stephen Preskill
Getting Lecturers To Take Discussion Seriously, Stephen Brookfield, Stephen Preskill
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
In this chapter we examine how faculty resistant to experimenting with discussion methods can be encouraged to take them seriously. We begin by acknowledging and addressing publicly the objections to using discussion most frequently raised by skeptical faculty. We then turn to proposing what we believe are the most common reasons why attempts to use discussion sometimes fail: that teachers have unrealistic expectations of the method, that students are unprepared, that reward systems in the classroom are askew, and that teachers have not modeled their own participation in, and commitment to, discussion methods. For each of these reasons we suggest …
“It's Hard Work!”: Faculty Development In A Program For First–Year Students, Martha L. A. Stassen
“It's Hard Work!”: Faculty Development In A Program For First–Year Students, Martha L. A. Stassen
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Academic programs designed specifically for first-year students provide an important opportunity for faculty growth. This chapter contributes to the limited literature on this topic through a qualitative analysis of interviews with faculty members who taught in an experimental living-learning community for first-year students at a Research I Public University. The analysis suggests atleast four dimensions of faculty growth as a result of their involvement in first-year programs. In addition to outlining the types of impact this experience has on the faculty involved, the article suggests the implications of these findings for faculty development.
The Influence Of Disciplinary Differences On Consultations With Faculty, Virginia Lee
The Influence Of Disciplinary Differences On Consultations With Faculty, Virginia Lee
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
In recent years researchers have begun to investigate the nature of disciplinary differences in higher education and their implications for teaching and learning. While researchers have studied several aspects of disciplinary differences, they have given comparatively little attention to the significance of these differences for faculty development. After reviewing selective, representative studies from the literature on disciplinary differences, this paper develops a general framework for determining how the characteristics of a discipline influence the dynamics of the consulting relationship using the example of the hard sciences. It explores what kinds of discipline-specific knowledge will be important for consultants and under …
The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning: A National Initiative, Barbara L. Cambridge
The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning: A National Initiative, Barbara L. Cambridge
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
As part ofthe scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty members study the ways in which they teach and students learn in their disciplines, and campuses foster this scholarship at the institutional level. A national initiative called the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Leaming constitutes three programs to engage and support individuals, campuses, and disciplinary associations in this form of scholarly work. This article describes the Pew Scholars Fellowship Program, the Campus Program, and the Work with Scholarly Societies and invites participation of campuses in this exciting initiative.