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...
Category: Faculty & Staff Development
What’s on a Higher Ed Faculty Developer’s Bookshelf?
We came up in an earlier age when the old expression was “Show me your library, and I’ll show you your soul.” Of course, today most houses aren’t even construct...
Mindmapping: A Technique for Innovation
In the aftermath of our publishing novels, short stories, and academic books and articles, the three of us continue to be asked the same question: where do you ...
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...
How Collaborative Innovative Thinking Led to the DEEP System
In our last post we described a new online professional development system we christened DEEP (Developing Excellence in Eastern’s Professors). Perhaps just as i...
How We Are Developing Excellence in Eastern’s Professors
If the assessment reports for your center of teaching & learning (CTL) indicated that you were reaching only 10% of your faculty, what would you do to impro...
Using the Deep Learning Inventory to Transform Your Campus
A few years ago, as Rusty, Hal, and I mentioned in previous posts, we ever-so-slightly changed our CTL’s motto/prime directive from “Helping Teachers Help Stude...
The 4 Benefits of Higher Education Scholarly Collaboration
An issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (November 14, 2014) carries an essay that provides a rationale for the traditional role of the solitary scholar. I...