How to Select Faculty Innovators
For the past few posts, we’ve been discussing Faculty Innovators, those selected faculty members who bring development to the campus. An interesting question in...
Category: Faculty & Staff Development
Behind the Scenes with The Wizards Behind the Faculty Innovators
Just as Oz couldn’t function without the wizard behind the scenes, so our Faculty Innovators program—discussed in the previous post—could not operate without th...
From the Publisher
Changes, New Offerings and a Networking Opportunity for 2016 By Doug Dollar With the arrival of volume 30 of the Journal of Faculty Development this month, I wi...
Faculty Innovators: The Key to the Future of Faculty Development
Anyone who has been in faculty development for a while knows its main problem: the very clientele Centers for Teaching & Learning (CTLs) are charged with de...
Creating Unified Higher Ed Faculty Development Programming
In Learning To Think Things Through (2005), Gerry Nosich claims that every course needs a focus, what he calls “the central question . . . It is the unifying qu...
A Third Community Type for High Ed Faculty
A few years ago a group of faculty came to us, and because we had taught creative writing for years, they asked us to facilitate a fiction-writing group. No, fi...
A Reaction to Worthen’s “Lecture Me. Really.”
Perhaps the reports of the death of the Sage-on-the-Stage are premature. Periodically defenders of the lecture approach to teaching rise up to be heard. For ins...
How to Assess Professional Learning Communities
In the beginning of our tenure as directors of the Teaching & Learning Center, we were happy just to find facilitators for our professional learning communi...
The Best Center of Teaching and Learning Service for Professional Development
A few years ago our state adopted the Common Core Standards and the legislature mandated that all state universities had to align college-level courses to these...
Focused Faculty Groups: Breakfast and a Book
One thing CTLs can do effectively is bring together people from across campus with like interests, especially people who might not otherwise meet. Just as a hea...