To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Networkin Higher Education, To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Introduction.
Ethical Guidelines for Educational Developers.
Section I: Focus on Trends in Faculty Development.
1. Fostering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Communities of Practice (Barbara L. Cambridge).
2. Transitions and Transformations: The Making of Department Chairs (Irene W. D. Hecht).
3. Education for Responsible Citizenship: A Challenge for Faculty Developers (Thomas Ehrlich).
4. A Prophet in Your Own Land? Using Faculty and Student Focus Groups to Address Issues of race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Classroom (James Francisco Bonilla & Patricia R. Palmerton).
5. Faculty Learning Commenities: Change Agents for Transforming Institutions into Learning Organizations (Milton D. Cox).
Section II: Focus on Faculty Development and Student Learning.
6. Doing faculty Development as if We value Learning Most: Transformative Guidelines from Research to Practice (Thomas A. Angelo).
7. Higher–Level Learning: The First Step Toward More Significant Learning.
8. Clarity in Teaching in Higher Education: Dimensions and Classroom Strategies (Nira Hativa).
9. Preparing Today’s Faculty for Tomorrow’s Students: One College’s Faculty Development Solution (Patrick Nellis, Helen Clarke, Jackie Di Martino, and David Hosman).
10. After Twelve Years of Teaching the College–Teaching Course (Michael B. Paulsen).
11. Faculty development that Transforms the Undergraduate Experience at a Research University (Kathleen S. Smith).
12. The Case for Spphisticated Course Syllabi (Michael J. Strada) .
13. The Role of a Teaching Center in Curricular Reform (Constance Ewing Cook).
14. Technology and the Culture of teaching and Learning (Sean Courtney).
Section III: Focus on Faculty Development and Professional Support.
15. Developing New faculty: An Evolving Program (Gloria Pierce).
16. Publish, Don’t Perish: A Program to help Scholars Floruish (Tara Gray and Jane Birch).
17. Designing Teaching Portfolios Based on a Formal Model of the Scholarship of teaching (Carolin Kreber).
18. Strengthening Collegiality to Enhance Teaching, Research, and Scholarly Practice: An Untapped Resource for Faculty Development (Gerlese S. Akerlind and Kathleen M. Quinlan).
19. Faculty Quality of Life (Sally S. Atkins, Kathleen T. Brinko, Jeffrey A. Butts, Charles S. Claxton, and Glenda T. Hubbard).
20. Getting Administrative Support for your Project (Joan Middendorf)
Bibliography.

Nota biograficzna:
DEVORAH LIEBERMAN is Vice Provost and Assistant to the President and Director of Teaching and learning, center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University.
CATHERINE M. WEHLBURG is Associate Vice president for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor in Psychology, Stephens College.

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An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Networkin Higher Education, To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.