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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.

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 …

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

Starting A Faculty Development Program: Strategies And Approaches, Luann Wilkerson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Who Should be Involved in Program Planning?

What is the Purpose of the Proposed Program?

How Will the Proposed Program Affect Desired Changes?

Who Should Participate?

How do We Determine the Needs of Our Constituency?

What Goals and Objectives Should We Pursue?

What Institutional Structure Will Best Encourage Success?

What Activities Shall the Program Provide?

How Should we Finance These Lofty Schemes?

What Type of Staff Does the Program Require?

Table 1: Characteristics Required in Faculty Development Leaders

How Do We Publicize Our Programs and Reward Participants?

How Do We Evaluate Our Accomplishments?

References

Appendix A: Planning and Implementing a …

Pod Network News, November 28, 1983, Michele S. Fisher

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

1. The August 16, 1983 Newsletter

2. Our 1983 National Conference at Airlie, Virginia

3. 1984 Conference

4. Core Committee elections

5. Last and next book of readings, "To Improve the Academy"

6. Membership list ... consultant list

7. Dialogue with NCPOD

8. POD Summer Institute

9. National Faculty Exchange

10. Membership dues

POD Core Committee Election

Pod Network News, August 16, 1983, Michele Fisher

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

The October Annual Conference, October 20-23, 1983, Airlie, Virginia

Future Conferences/NCPOD Collaboration

The Journal of Staff, Program, and Organization Development

POD Membership List

And Speaking of Members...

A Regional Affiliate

Information on a Southern Regional Consortium and Conference

Exchange Job Information

Travel Information

Consultants List

POD Training Institute

Membership Recommendation

Pod Network News, May 16, 1983, Michele Fisher

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

1. Selection of Executive Director-Elect

2. Annual Meeting, October 20-23, 1983, Airlie, Virginia

3. March 27 Core Committee Meeting and AAHE Conference

4. The 1983 Book of Readings

5. Regional Meetings

6. Other Announcements

7. POD in the Year Ahead

Conference Materials

Join The Pod Network

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

What is the POD Network?

What makes POD unique?

How does POD serve its members?

The Annual Fall Conference

Publications

1982-83 Core Committee

An open invitation to participate

Membership Application

1983 Pod Conference Directory

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Directory

Additions

Membership Directory Form

Draft Of Conference Schedule

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Letter to 1983 POD Conference Session Leaders, by Bette LaSere Erickson, Conference Chorewoman

Draft of Schedule

Registration Materials

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Letter, by LuAnn Wilkerson

Registration Form (1983-1984 Membership Dues, Conference Registration Fees, Reservations for Room and Board at Airlie, Ground Transportation)

8th National Pod Conference Information

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Featuring Keynote Address on ...

Plus Sessions on ...

Plus Round Table Discussions on ...

Plus ...

And More, Including (We Hope) the Following Proposed Sessions ...

Information On Sessions

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Call for Sessions, by Bette LaSere Erickson

Information Sheet on POD Conference Track on Transitions from Academe to Business, by Lance C. Buhl

Memorandum, by Joanne Kurfiss

Editorial Matter 1983

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Foreword

Table of Contents

Recognizing And Using Cognitive Learning Styles: An Exercise, Jan Buckwald, Steve Scholl

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This Exercise Is Not Intended To Be Proscriptive. The Inventory And Suggestions Generated During The Exercise Should Be Used Heuristically To Help Students And Teachers Be More Articulate About The Way They Learn And To Expand Their Skills In Learning And Teaching.

Requirements

Directions

References

Making Workshops Work, Jacqueline Davis, Robert Young

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Seminars and workshops--a practical, no-nonsense, relatively easy to schedule, participatory means of conveying and sharing ideas. Right? Only if planned and executed well. On the surface, a group session may seem to be one of the easiest best and ways to study new approaches to teaching and learning. It can be scheduled for one or more large blocks of time, freeing participants for other activities during the term. It provides opportunity for experimentation, a time and place to play out new ideas for the classroom before trying them with students. And it is a structure which promotes discussion, people talking …

On Improving Testing: A Student Evaluation Study, Marina Estabrook, Daniel L. Wick

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Method

Results

Number of Exams Students Take

Kind of Exams Students Take

Evaluation of Course Exams Depending on Test Format

Students' Best and Worst Testing Experiences

Best Test Experiences

Worst Test Experiences

Conclusion

Implications for Instructional Development Centers

TRC Student Evaluation of Testing

Coaching Mathematics And Other Academic Sports, Linc. Fisch

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

It was one of those gorgeous autumn afternoons: a deep October blue sky contrasted with the brilliant golds and crimsons of the trees, the dazzle of the sun moderated the crispness in the air, and the spirit of the Homecoming crowd brought the stadium to vibrant life. It was a perfect day for football - and hardly the time or the place to be meditating about teaching. But that's where I first began to wonder ... to wonder why the football coach seemed to have so much more success with his team than I had with my mathematics class. A …

Computer Literacy: Teach Yourself, Barbara M. Florini

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

What is Computer Literacy?

Computer Hardware

Software

Floppy Disks

User-friendly

Uses For Computers:

Word Processing, CAI/CMI, Data Bases, Spreadsheets, Graphics, Super Program, Your Investment

Issues

Next Steps

Long-Range Planning And Faculty Development, Frederick H. Gaige

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Long-Range Planning: An Overview

II. Long-Range Planning: A Faculty Development Strategy

The concept of planning is as universally embraced as parenthood and pizza. Through planning, an individual or institution attempts to gain better control of the future, to make decisions in a systematic and thoughtful way. We may ask ourselves how anyone could oppose a process designed to achieve a greater modicum of order in our individual and institutional lives. And, indeed, it is the rare voice that is raised against the planning concept.

Improving Academic Departments, Sher Riechmann Hruska

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Individual VS. Departmental Development Models

Sample Models

Conditions for Success

Staff Skills

Results

Summary

References

Faculty Development In A Decade Of Transition, B. Claude Mathis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A curriculum for change in higher education emerged during the 1970's which emphasizes, in the tradition of the three "R's", a course of study called reexamination, revitalization, renewal, retraining, and retirement, along with retrenchment. All of these exhortations calling on our institutions to reexamine, revitalize, renew, retrain, retrench, and retire have been operationalized in a process called faculty development which, in its best sense, recognizes that faculty members are the fulcrum for change in any educational institution. Change faculty and you change the nature of higher education. I suggest that the transitions that higher education institutions are making during this …

Career Stages: Implications For Faculty Instructional Development, Lynn L. Mortensen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Current Research on Career Stages of Faculty

Instructional Development Needs Identified by Faculty at Different Career Stages

Implications for Instructional Development

Conclusion

Bibliography

Workshop On Course Design And Teaching Styles: A Model For Faculty Development, Nancy Nowik

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Course Of The Week

Course Development Stages

Schedule

Microteaching

Mid-Week (Course) Evaluation

Evening Sessions

Drawing to a Close

What Have we Accomplished?

Personal Consultation And Contractual Planning In Stimulating Faculty Growth: The Faculty Development Program At Northern Illinois University, L. Terry Oggel, Edwin L. Simpson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Development of Faculty Development at NIU

Barriers to Development

Conducting the Program

Individual Cases

Faculty Reactions to the Program

Future Development of the Program

Conclusion

The Relationship Of Institutional Planning And Institutional Research To Faculty Development, Carol A. Paul

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Institutional Research

Academic Planning

Examples of Relationship of Institutional Planning and Research to Faculty Development

Factors That Influence Effective Interaction

References

Table 1: An Outline for an Educational Plan

Linking Faculty Development And Academic Planning, R. Eugene Rice

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

During the 1970's, most of what was done under the name of faculty development focused on the individual. High priority was placed on confidentiality in dealing with faculty and efforts were made to maintain distance from the structures of power and decision-making within institutions - especially the Dean's Office. Faculty development was established intentionally at the margins of institutions. In the years ahead, professional development activities will move from the periphery of colleges and universities to the center and be increasingly linked to long-range academic planning and institutional development.

Section I: Approaches To Teaching, Sandra C. Inglis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Preparing a book of readings from our POD members requires us to take time to fully appreciate the talents of our colleagues. This short chapter on approaches to teaching is a fine example. Each of the contributors presents his or her own motivation in re-thinking the classroom experience - one saw the light while watching a football game; another finally tired of "the same old thing."

Section Ii: Promoting Adaptability In Higher Education, Michael Davis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The current decade has been a period of reduced resources, tight competition for students, uneven demand for faculty from various specialties, and a more stable and mature professoriate. Colleges and universities are searching for models and programs to enable them to turn threatening conditions into opportunities for change and progress. The resistance to change is sometimes strong, and new perspectives and ideas can be helpful in breaking the log jam of resistance. The four papers in this section present perspectives that can be valuable in promoting individual and organizational vigor. Each perspective has roots in human development or organizational development …

Section Iii: Faculty Development And Institutional Planning, Michelle Fisher

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

All the papers in this section share a now frequently heard concern for the stagnant, trapped, and even resentful faculties that the financial stringencies of the 1980s are creating at many colleges and universities. Yet the solution of all of these authors is not simply the standard fare of faculty development - consultation, workshop, handbooks, etc. - at least not as these are offered to individual faculty members. Instead, the authors' plea is to set faculty development in a larger context, to apply it to entire departments at a minimum and to the whole institution, especially as research reveals that …