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Becky Tugman; Lauren E. Stephens; Taimi Olsen; Alfred E. Bundrick – To Improve the Academy, 2025
Peer observation of teaching (PoT) is a recognized evaluation tool. However, faculty concerns persist regarding bias, beneficial feedback, and lack of peer observer training. While faculty desire to provide quality and equitable reviews, many higher education faculty peers have little expertise in conducting observations and evaluations. This…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Faculty Development, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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Billie Harrington – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Hiring practitioners as faculty is not a novel practice in higher education. In their decision to shift from the private sector to the classroom, many practitioners enter the professoriate with little to no formal training in pedagogy. The question for faculty developers is how might Teaching and Learning Centers (TLCs) bridge this gap from…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Effectiveness, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
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Matthew G. Schwartz – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Formal faculty mentorship programs are a practical and effective pathway to enable faculty success in teaching, scholarship, and service and to enhance faculty satisfaction. Although informal mentoring relationships benefit some faculty, formal faculty mentorship programs ensure equitable access to mentorship for female faculty and faculty from…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Mentors, Networks, Models
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Janet Orchard; Victoria Bowen – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
We report on the design of a close-to-practice research project situated in Southwest England exploring the relationship between developing teachers' "powerful knowledge" of inter-religious dialogue in religious education (RE) through a teacher fellowship model for RE specialists, including a specialist curriculum development programme…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Intergroup Relations, Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods
Natsumi Ueda; Adrianna Kezar – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2023
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA), a public research university, has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to improving working conditions for non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) with a 20-year track record of progressive policies to improve the support for them. This commitment is manifested through a series of improvements in policies,…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty, Work Environment, Teaching Conditions
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Yoshinobu, Stan; Jones, Matthew G.; Hayward, Charles N.; Schumacher, Carol; Laursen, Sandra L. – PRIMUS, 2023
Faculty professional development is an important lever for change in supporting instructors to adopt research-based instructional strategies that engage students intellectually, foster learning-supportive attitudes and habits of mind, and strengthen their persistence in mathematics. Yet the literature contains few well-rationalized models for…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inquiry, Workshops, College Mathematics
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McClellan, J. L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2021
When our students told us they wanted our faculty and staff to practice the leadership competencies that we were outlining in our university's leadership competency model, we decided to take on the challenge. Based on principles of effective leadership development, the College of Business and Office of Human Resources created and continue to…
Descriptors: Modeling (Psychology), Faculty Development, Leadership, Leadership Training
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Kristi Verbeke; Anna Santucci; Ted Murcray – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
The authors draw from the burnout literature to present a framework for faculty wellbeing efforts. Burnout happens when there is a mismatch between one's ideal and reality and can result in exhaustion, cynicism, and feeling ineffective. Rather than focusing on mitigating burnout, we present a framework for engaging faculty on the other end of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Well Being, Teacher Burnout, Psychological Patterns
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Gatlin, Anna Ruth; Kuhn, Wiebke; Boyd, Diane; Doukopoulos, Lindsay; McCall, Contina P. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
Despite trending investment in active learning infrastructure to support student learning, inclusion, and career preparedness, few universities have achieved the orchestration of campus stakeholders and pedagogical reform "at scale." This article presents a process-oriented model for developing faculty and students for success in these…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Active Learning, School Space
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Orland-Barak, Lily – Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
In this article I describe and reflect on my evolving understandings of the study of mentoring since the publication of the 2005 article in the Journal of Teacher Education. My reflective journey suggests stressing two assertions to the study of mentoring. One, that there is a need to develop a more multidimensional and integrated conception of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Models, Educational Research, Reflective Teaching
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Margolis, Jason; Berg, Jill Harrison – Learning Professional, 2022
A school is much more than a collection of individual classrooms. Fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented culture can improve teachers' and students' success. In model classrooms, teachers who have participated in professional learning open their classroom doors and agree to have others observe as they work to integrate the targeted new…
Descriptors: Models, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Educational Change
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Monica Stitt-Bergh; Debra Fowler; Jonan Phillip Donaldson; Ra'Sheedah Richardson; Truth Hunter; Clinton A. Patterson – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) address external and internal factors that influence teaching and learning. To accomplish this, often without additional resources, CTLs need an efficient and effective solution. By combining evidence-based practices in faculty development and a distillation of effective practices at three different…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Centers, Evidence Based Practice
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LeGary, Robert A., Jr.; LaRocco, Diana J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2022
This chapter describes a locally developed model for professional learning, whose purpose is to facilitate faculty participants' implementation of UDL. The model is grounded in attributes of long-term, job-embedded professional learning and principles of adult learning theory. Recommendations for scaling-up faculty professional learning programs…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Access to Education, Models, Adult Learning
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Ellis, Donna E.; Brown, Veronica M.; Tse, Crystal T. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Educational developers need to assess the work of their Centres, from program participation and impact to underlying organizational processes. Various frameworks exist, but developers may feel unsure how to get started. We developed a planning model that offers a structured, systematic approach for developing comprehensive assessment systems that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Centers, Educational Facilities, Faculty Development
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Matt O'Leary – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This conceptual paper discusses 'unseen observation' as an alternative model of classroom observation to support teachers' professional learning. The paper starts with a critical synopsis of how observation has been appropriated principally as a performance management tool for monitoring teacher effectiveness in the UK. It argues that the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Classroom Observation Techniques, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
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