The X-Factor: One Result of Success
“Success,” suggested Emily Dickinson, “is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.” We’d like to add a corollary to the Belle of Amherst’s famous pronouncem...
Category: Faculty & Staff Development
Resources On Unifying Faculty Development Programming
A few posts ago we discussed the importance of a center for teaching & learning (CTL) developing unified programming—i.e., a central concern around which it...
Going to WAR: Using a Weekly Assessment Report for Assessment Part II
As we explained in our previous post, the Weekly Assessment Report—the WAR—provides an excellent methodology for assessment. Unlike annual reports, the WAR prov...
Going to WAR: Using a Weekly Activities Report for Assessment
Want a simple assessment tool for your CTL, one that tracks your daily activities while providing you with a detailed read-out of what activities dominate your ...
14 Guidelines for Successful Higher Ed Faculty Workshops
One question that comes up quite often with our oversight of all things under our auspices is: how involved should we as the Executive Committee be over present...
The Higher Ed Professional Learning Community Oversight
Over the past ten years we have averaged sponsoring two professional learning communities (PLCs) per semester. It wasn’t until we organized the Faculty Innovato...
Using Technology To Build The Faculty Innovator Network
In explaining the creation of the Faculty Innovators, that group of faculty trained in consultations and workshops who are sent to various colleges and departme...
An Inside Look at The Faculty Innovator Progress, Part II
Week before last we discussed what made the morning of our January progress such a success. After an excellent lunch, we moved onto a two-hour afternoon session...
An Inside Look at a Faculty Innovator Progress, Part I
Traditionally, when groups go to a non-work area for a day of training, the event is called a retreat. Since the word retreat carries negative connotations—espe...
The Great Professional Learning Community Experiment
Everything can be innovated—case in point, the Professional Learning Community (PLC). While we have been using PLCs on campus for the past decade (for more thor...