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Part Iii: Issues And Approaches In Faculty And Instructional Development

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The articles in this section present a menu of possible approaches, activities, and programs designed to stimulate faculty, instructional, and organizational development.

Part Iv: Improving Teaching And Learning

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Helping teachers to help their students learn better is obviously a major concern of most faculty development programs. The articles in this section present a number of ideas and techniques for improving teaching and learning - most of them predicated on recognizing and dealing with the diversity of students' interests and learning needs.

Playing God In Academe, Raymond J. Rodrigues

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In 1986, Alston Chase published his book Playing God in Yellowstone. In it, he argues that Yellowstone had never, in historic times, ever been in a truly natural state. He points out that when the early European and Anglo explorers first entered Yellowstone, fires were burning everywhere. The fires, he tells us, were set by the Indians in Yellowstone to drive game into areas where they could be trapped and killed. In setting those fires, the Indians were actually controlling and contributing to the ecological balance of the region.

Graduate Teaching Assistants' Views On Teaching, James M. Shaeffer, Lawrence T. Mcgill, Robert J. Menges

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Previous Experiences and Role Models

Current Feedback

The Search for a Comfortable Style

Implications for GTA Development

Notes

References

Using Video Recall For Improving Professional Competency In Instructional Consultation, David Taylor-Way, Kathleen T. Brinko

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Videotape Consultation and Intervention: A Short History

Using Video Recall to Produce Professional Knowledge in Clients

Using Video Recall to Produce Professional Knowledge in Consultants

Some Personal Experimentation: David

Some Personal Experimentation: Kate

Conclusion

References

Discussion Method Teaching: A Practical Guide, William M. Welty

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Preparation Before Class

Read the Assigned Material

Decide on Important Concepts and Outline

A Question Outline

A Board Outline

Knowing Your Students

Looking at the Whole Semester and the Whole Institution

Physical Setting

The Ideal

Usual Situation

The Class

Beginning the Class

Questioning, Listening, Response

Body Language

Sense of Time

Group Work

Ending the Class

After Class

How to Start

Bibliography: Case Method and Discussion Method Teaching

The Words Made Fresh: Transforming The Language And Context Of Faculty Development, Marie Wunsch

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Combining Faculty Development and Faculty Support

Linking Faculty Development and Faculty Evaluation

Cultivating Culture, Climate, and Community

References

Lodging And Transportation Information

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Letter, by Art Crawley (Conference Site Coordinator)

Plane Reservations

Maps

1989-90 Honorary Membership Massengale

UNOPA: Documents and Publications

No abstract provided.

Pod Network News: Newsletter November 1988

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

EVERYONE WANTS TO MOVE TO COLORADO

THE CORE COMMITTEE STRIKES AGAIN

CORE COMMITTEE ELECTIONS

POD GRANT PROGRAM

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES

AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR

CALL FOR PAPERS: TO IMPROVE THE ACADEMY

POD GRANT PROGRAM

POD CORE COMMITTEE 1989-1992 SELF-NOMINATION FORM

Pod Network News: Newsletter August 1988, Marilla Svinicki

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

Publications Available

And with regard to publications

Where are they now?

Where would they like to be now?

Conferences of Interest

Calls for Papers

And now to brighten your day

Pod Network News: Newsletter May 1988, Marilla Svinicki

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

POD Session at AAHE

Core Meeting

Grants Program

Program Descriptions Book now available

Conference 1988, Keystone, Colorado

Other Conferences of Interest

Publication Opportunities

Job Opportunities

Pod Network News: Newsletter February 1988

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

NEW CORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

AND A THANK YOU TO THE RETIRING CORE MEMBERS

A NEW DIRECTORY IS COMING

JOIN US AT AAHE

A SECOND CHANCE FOR LITERARY NOTORIETY

CONFERENCE PROPOSALS FOR NEXT YEAR

ONE LAST PIECE OF BUSINESS FROM KERRVILLE

OTHER CONFERENCES/SEMINARS OF INTEREST

Call for Session Proposals

Minutes, Conference Planning Committee, Susan Holton

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Attendance

Announcements

Purpose of the Committee

Membership Information

Future Conferences

POD Conference Sites

Cartoon

Registration And Pre-Conference Materials

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Memorandum

Additional Information

Registration and Reservation Information

Preliminary Conference Schedule

Concurrent Session Proposal Form

Session Information

Proposal Guidelines

General Information

Tracks for Concurrent Sessions

Level of Audience Experience and Knowledge

Conference Schedule

Pre-Conference Workshops

Evaluations Of Pre-Conference Workshop

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Letter, by Kay Herr

POD Small Group Session Evaluations

1988 Pod Registrations

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

1988 POD Registrations

1988 POD Registrations Addendum

Resources For Publications

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

POD Publications List

Professional and Organizational Development in Higher Education: A Handbook for New Practioners

Foreword

To Improve the Academy Order Form

Pod 13th Annual Conference Program

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Welcome, by the Colorado Conference Team

Materials Display

Evaluation

Tracks for Concurrent Sessions

Program

Core Committee

Conference Team

Special Thanks

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? (Annual POD Conference, To Improve the Academy, POD Membership Directory, POD Newsletters)

An Open Invitation to Participate

Membership Application

1987-1988 Core Committee

Editorial Matter 1988

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Foreword

Contents

Cumulative Title Index

Cumulative Author Index

Developing Management Skills Of Academic Professionals, Len Ainsworth

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Initiation

Program Design

Content

Results

Lessons Learned

References

Helping Faculty Meet New Pressures For Scholarly Writing, Robert Boice

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Methods

Subjects

Enlisting Participants

Self-Report Forms

Tracking Participants

Results and Discussion

Practicality and Reliability of the Methodology

Do Librarians Have Less Time for Scholarly Writing?

Complexities in the Search for Sufficient Time

The Initial Attempt at Facilitating Writing in the Midst of Busy Schedules

Short-Term Results: Did Faculty and Librarians Make Use of Available Time?

Why Most Faculty Members and Librarians Didn't Write Productively in the Short Run

Signs of Success in the Longer Run

References

Undergraduate Students' Use Of Time: A Classroom Investigation, Barbara E. Brittingham

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Questions of the Study

Method

Results and Discussion

Conclusion

References

Author Notes

Topics In Question: Active Learning Through Inquiry, Susan Lundvall Brodie

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Why are so many students poor questioners -- why do they lack habits and skills in so fundamental a human activity as inquiry? And why, if it is true that the best teaching capitalizes on students' natural curiosity, do so many students appear to lack the very gift we wish to tap?

Project Learn: Encouraging Innovation And Professional Growth Through Classroom Research, Kate Brooks

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Introduction

Origin and Design of Project Learn

Phase I. Pilot Study (Spring and Fall 1986)

Procedures and Results: First Semester

Procedures and Results: Second Semester

Conclusions from Phase I

Phase II. Data Collection in Additional Courses and Design of Classroom Research Process (Spring 1987)

Additional Data Collection

The Five-Step Research Process

Phase III. Implementation of Seven Faculty Projects (Fall 1987)

Interpretation of Results

Effectiveness of Specific Strategies

Effectiveness in Encouraging Faculty Development

Future Development of Classroom Research

References

Notes

Collaborating With Departmental Ta Coordinators: The Next Step?, Nancy Chism

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The Disadvantages of Sole Reliance on a TA Orientation Program

The Next Step

The Problems

Making It Work

References

Notes On A Classroom Research Program, Bette Lasere Erickson, Glenn R. Erickson

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Sometimes, when you least expect it, a good idea stands up, introduces itself, and asks to be recognized. So it happened two years ago at the AAHE meetings. Pat Cross was urging us all to take teaching seriously -- not a particularly novel idea for POD folks -- but we sat up and took notice when she proposed.

Assessing Faculty Quality Of Life, Jon A. Hageseth, Sally S. Atkins

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Method

Results and Discussion

Institutional Mission

The Paradox of Teaching

Faculty Needs

Academic Leadership

Departmental Issues

Human Development Issues

Recommendations

Conclusion

References

Art Essays And Computer Letters, Wendy Holmes

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Essay 1

Essay 2

The Problem

Method

Description of Comments

Problems of Implementation

Results

Discussion

Appendix

Samples of Computer Letters