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Knipe, Mallory R. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
Student development of critical consciousness is essential in higher education if we are to promote civic engagement and educate students to be constructive global citizens. Research on consciousness raising reveals that instructors who have done due diligence in developing their own critical consciousness are best equipped to promote its…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, College Instruction, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Russell Carpenter; Kevin Dvorak – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
Amid continued concerns regarding faculty engagement, along with heightened challenges associated with recruitment, retention, teaching and learning, and student success, this status report provides an update based on the June 2023 Faculty (Re)engagement Institute (FRI). During the edition of the June 2023 FRI, participants examined barriers…
Descriptors: Faculty, Barriers, Faculty Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
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Julien, Karen – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2021
In this reflective writing, the author shares some experiences of learning to teach in higher education, the pathway she has taken on this online adventure, and how her online teaching has been influenced by the pandemic context.
Descriptors: College Instruction, Faculty Development, Web Based Instruction, Pandemics
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Branchaw, Janet L.; Theisen, Cara H.; Trimby, Christopher – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
This chapter describes a professional development program that integrates training in college teaching with an authentic classroom teaching experience. Benefits to graduate students in the program and undergraduate students in the linked disciplinary first-year seminar are discussed.
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Fellowships, Faculty Development, First Year Seminars
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Alyssa G. Cavazos – Texas Education Review, 2024
This testimonio, inspired by Anzaldúa's (2002) seven stages of conocimiento, is written in second person to highlight a series of counterstories aimed at guiding readers through the challenges of facilitating teaching conversations in higher education where deficit assumptions about students' potential are prevalent. Readers will gain insight into…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Activism, Educational Benefits, Teaching (Occupation)
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Robinson, Sarah E.; Noyd, Robert K.; Jones, Steven K. – College Teaching, 2020
In numerous workshops and course design retreats, we have modeled the course design process using a fictional course (entitled "Colorado Mountain Hiking") to help instructors bridge the gap between course design theory and practice. We have found this example to be effective because it: a) is accessible to colleagues of different…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Courses, Problems, Identification
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Korsnack, Kylie; Ortquist-Ahrens, Leslie – To Improve the Academy, 2021
When the global pandemic forced campuses across the United States to send students home in March 2020, instructors were thrown into triage mode, forced to rapidly transition their on-the-ground classroom curriculum to a format that could be completed remotely by students spread out across the country. At the same time, centers for teaching and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Private Colleges
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Simonson, Shawn R.; Earl, Brittnee; Frary, Megan – College Teaching, 2022
Most institutional practices to evaluate teaching are inadequate, inaccurate, neither improve teaching directly, nor incentivize teaching improvement. This is often because effective teaching is difficult to assess and most tools do not adequately or accurately do so and are often without established standards. Because of this, faculty may be…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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Wright, Mary C.; Lohe, Debra Rudder; Little, Deandra – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
Nearly 25 years after Barr and Tagg's (1995) article on the move away from the Instruction Paradigm, the authors argue that we are experiencing another shift, from a learning-centered to de-centered educational environment. Just as Barr and Tagg signalled a paradigm shift from teaching to learning, the authors suggest--nearly a quarter century…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, College Instruction, Role
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Shawa, Lester Brian – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2020
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) remains a mostly elusive notion. For universities to genuinely contribute to SoTL, they must delineate clear parameters of engagement. For example, while some engage SoTL at the academic level, others examine it from an institutional policy perspective. Others view it from national and international…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Reflective Teaching, Educational Research, College Instruction
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Edwards, Wayne L. – Asian Journal of University Education, 2018
While fully understanding the multi-faceted role of universities and other higher education institutions, Professor Edwards advocates for the status and value of teaching, particularly in times of emphasis on research outputs and league tables. He draws on his reflections from more than four decades of experience of teaching at university level…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Muñoz, Yvonne – Education Trust-West, 2021
Higher education systems and institutions are often viewed as resistant to change or slow to adapt, particularly by advocates and communities urging equity-minded reform of colleges and universities. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic jolted California's colleges and universities into drastically changing course to meet students' basic, mental, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education
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Chenault, Krystel H. – College Quarterly, 2017
In this discussion-based article, the author considers the benefits of an in-depth collaborative model for curricular and faculty development, the Japanese lesson study, a method that is largely untested in higher education, though the few instances of its usage have produced promising results. The author examines the barriers to faculty…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Higher Education, Teacher Collaboration, Social Development
Levesque-Bristol, Chantal; Flierl, Michael; Zywicki, Craig; Parker, Loran Carleton; Connor, Cody; Guberman, Daniel; Nelson, David; Maybee, Clarence; Bonem, Emily; FitzSimmons, Jason; Lott, Erica – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2019
How does a large research university establish a culture supporting student-centered evidence-based teaching? In this paper, we describe Purdue University's "Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation" (IMPACT) which has involved 321 instructors and 529 courses. Of every first-time undergraduate student, who first…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Evidence Based Practice, College Instruction, School Culture
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Garran, Ann Marie; Kang, Hye-Kyung; Fraser, Edith – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2014
The primary purpose of faculty development is to create and sustain a culture of teaching excellence. For social work faculty, an important part of teaching excellence involves incorporating core social work values such as social justice and diversity across the curriculum and developing pedagogical skills and strategies to teach these issues…
Descriptors: Social Work, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Social Justice
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