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Download full textGall, Meredith D.; Vojtek, Roseanne O'Brien – 1994
Many educators and policymakers find that deciding on the right staff-development program has become increasingly difficult. This brief, three-part monograph organizes staff-development objectives, models, and program-design features into an understandable, comprehensive framework. Part 1 advises readers on how to weigh a program's objectives.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Faculty Development, Inservice Education, Instructional Improvement
Travis, Jon E. – 1996
Based on a longer report with the same title, this digest summarizes what college faculty can do to improve their teaching. It maintains that faculty need to stop viewing college teaching as "covering the content" and start viewing it as "helping students learn." To help faculty achieve such an instructional transformation,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Development
Travis, Jon E. – 1995
This report presents a collection of teaching models to help college faculty improve their teaching. Six categories of teaching models are presented: (1) assessment and feedback models, including the Classroom Assessment model created by Angelo and Cross and already widely used among community college faculty; (2) discussion and sharing models,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Development
Cole, Charles C., Jr. – 1982
The literature relating to instructional improvement since 1978 is examined. After a review of implications of recent learning theories, it is concluded that theorists agree generally that: learning is enhanced when the student is active rather than passive; learning is improved by practice and feedback; learning is improved when directed toward…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Quality, Educational Research, Faculty Development
Peer reviewedParsons, Michael H., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1980
In the first section of this collection of essays on part-time faculty development, Carol Eliason outlines the problems inherent in current staff development practices and a systems approach to their solution. Then, David Harris voices concerns and challenges from the college president's perspective. Richard Smith explains the benefits of…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Financial Support
Kroll, Keith, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1992
Offering new perspectives on community college faculty recruitment and training, and on the renewal of current faculty, this journal issue contains articles on preservice training, faculty development, and teacher improvement. The following 10 chapters are included: (1) "Quo Vadis: Staffing the People's College 2000," by Michael H. Parsons, which…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship
