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Direct linkRichards, Erin – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
This article addresses my professional development as a teacher and political scientist throughout the span of a 15-year career in political science. Also included are reflections on graduate education and the compatibility and necessary dual focus on both political science and teaching in the academy today as it relates to my present-day…
Descriptors: Political Science, Teaching (Occupation), Career Development, Graduate Study
Marbach-Ad, Gili; McAdams, Katherine C.; Benson, Spencer; Briken, Volker; Cathcart, Laura; Chase, Michael; El-Sayed, Najib M.; Frauwirth, Kenneth; Fredericksen, Brenda; Joseph, Sam W.; Lee, Vincent; McIver, Kevin S.; Mosser, David; Quimby, B. Booth; Shields, Patricia; Song, Wenxia; Stein, Daniel C.; Stewart, Richard; Thompson, Katerina V.; Smith, Ann C. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
This essay describes how the use of a concept inventory has enhanced professional development and curriculum reform efforts of a faculty teaching community. The Host Pathogen Interactions (HPI) teaching team is composed of research and teaching faculty with expertise in HPI who share the goal of improving the learning experience of students in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Microbiology, Educational Change, Learning Experience
Anderson, Gary L.; Herr, Kathryn – Educational Researcher, 2011
This article takes issue with the notion that professional learning communities need to be more focused on teacher expertise through the use of online videos of lessons taught by expert teachers that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. The authors argue that the use of externally developed, research-based, and standards-aligned…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Video Technology, State Standards
Download full textAmerican Educator, 2010
With policymakers across the country proposing questionable ways to evaluate teachers, it's time to listen to those who know what supports and systems are needed to enhance instruction: teachers. This article explores the work of professional educators--not just their accomplishments, but also their challenges--so that the lessons they have…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Unions, Faculty Development, Presidents
O'Meara, KerryAnn; Terosky, Aimee LaPointe; Neumann, Anna – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2008
The purpose of this volume is to review and synthesize the literature on the American higher education faculty over the last fifteen to twenty years. As career-long students of higher education and the professoriate in particular, the authors have each studied the academic profession for many years, conducting hundreds of interviews with faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Careers, Higher Education, Rewards
Jita, Loyiso C.; Ndlalane, Tembi C. – Perspectives in Education, 2009
Teacher clusters represent a recent experiment in the field of teacher professional development in South Africa. Increasingly, teacher clusters are being used as a substitute for the traditional approaches to professional development in helping teachers reshape their professional knowledge and change their classroom practices. What underlies this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2004
In the late 1990s, as standards rose for both students and teachers, California policy-makers invested substantially in strengthening the teacher workforce as a core strategy to improve student achievement. Today, expectations for students' academic achievement continue to rise. But resources needed to strengthen the teaching workforce have…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Academic Achievement, Faculty Development
LeMoine, Sarah – National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2008
This blueprint focuses on the policies that connect professional development activities and that support and make possible an effective implementation of a state system of professional development. It highlights policy principles and essential policy areas that build or sustain an integrated system--a system that ensures quality in all settings in…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Public Policy, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy
Easton, Lois Brown – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
"Training" certainly fit the factory model of education. To others, the word conjured images of what one does to animals, getting them to sit, roll over, and play dead. Few educators now describe their learning experiences as training. The word "development" may be an improvement, but just a small one. It evokes images of what someone does to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Improvement
Tuttle, Francis T.; Bice, Juanita W. – VocEd, 1983
To accommodate technological advances that are changing the nature of occupations, the scope of teacher training and upgrading must be broadened to keep the profession current. (SK)
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Professional Training, Teacher Improvement
Peer reviewedClaunch, Jackie; Miller, Bob W. – Community Services Catalyst, 1980
To insure accountability for community service programs, suggests a program of professional development and evaluation for community service faculty. Profiles the community services instructor, identifies objectives and priorities for professional development, and describes the current professional development program offered at Richland College,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Tom, Alan R. – 1998
Professional development schools (PDSs) are usually viewed as school-university partnerships aimed at regeneration of teacher education and/or the reform of public schools in general. This paper examines the gap between creating a PDS structure and achieving these goals, suggesting that bridging the gap may require destabilization of both faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Elementary Education
Ranta, Richard R. – 1980
Although effective faculty development programs rely heavily on evaluation and instructional techniques related to speech communication, very few faculty development centers have utilized the expertise of speech communication professionals. Speech communication professionals can do five things to improve their profession and to use their…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Professional Development
Peer reviewedPerez, Janet – ADFL Bulletin, 1993
An overview of mentoring (including culture- and gender-neutral suggestions for all mentors and mentees) offers advice on guiding graduate students and young faculty in the humanities through the shoals of preparation for, and then work (mostly teaching) in, academe. Author sees mentoring as a pragmatic and altruistic "not a normative" activity,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Faculty Advisers, Faculty Development, Graduate Students
Elmore, Richard F. – Journal of Staff Development, 2007
In this article, the author discusses some of the most serious challenges--intellectual, institutional, and political--that he sees for the future of professional learning in education. He states that one common solution to these challenges would be for educators to begin to act more like professionals. One thing is clear about the early stages of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Professional Development Schools, Teacher Education
