The Organization is the Solution
We’ve explained how our CTL is guided by a principle we call the law of organizational entropy—when everybody is in charge, nobody is in charge. The obvio...
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The Law of Organizational Entropy and Faculty Innovators
Periodically we run across, in various fields from religion to education, a principle from organizational psychology that while often rendered in slightly diffe...
A Quick Review of The Slow Professor
In our favorite film comedy of all time, Back to School (1986), a classroom scene highlights the difference between an ivory-tower econ instructor and Rodney Da...
Expanding Your Center of Teaching and Learning Services
When should a CTL take on additional duties? Throughout this blog’s history we have continually addressed the subject of what responsibilities should register o...
Showcasing A Higher Ed Professional Learning Community
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) already play a large part in our faculty development program. Usually the semester after they finish, PLCs are invited ...
Re-Inventing New Higher Ed Faculty Orientation
According to Beach, Sorcinelli, Austin, and Rivard in Faculty Development in the Age of Evidence (2016), at the top of their list of “Directors [of CTLs] Signat...
What Theory of Deliberate Practice Tells Us about Faculty Development
Last month Charlie and I (Hal) celebrated ten years of being co-directors of the University’s Teaching & Learning Center (TLC). While I had been a co-direct...
Formative Judgment Innovates Classroom Observation
By its very nature a post is short (about 750 words in our case), and, as such, posts do not allow the depth of a research article and certainly not that of a b...
Innovating the Classroom Observation Process
A decade ago in Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), Sorcinelli et al listed the most common services offered by centers of teaching and learning ...
Adding Dialogues to Center for Teaching and Learning Programming
In “How to Write a Bestseller” (The Wall Street Journal, 2 September 2016, D5), Tony Gray discusses a new book called The Bestseller Code (2016), wherein Jocker...