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Peter Bannister; Mark Carver – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Responding to GenAI technologies, academics press for PLD that informs pedagogical practice and policy development. However, insufficient critical evaluation of whose knowledge informs this and its underlying complexity has resulted in excessively reductive offerings that either champion specific tools or advocate for their prohibition. Engaging…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty Development, English for Academic Purposes, Language Teachers
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Cooper, Liz; Woods, Kevin – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2017
This exploratory study investigated an educational psychologist's use of a strengths-based development tool with head teachers, in the context of influencing and supporting leaders in school organisations. Nine head teachers completed the "Realise2 Introductory Profile" online strengths assessment and then received a structured debrief…
Descriptors: Principals, Organizational Development, Well Being, School Psychologists
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Engbers, Rik; Fluit, Cornelia Cornelia R. M. G.; Bolhuis, Sanneke; de Visser, Marieke; Laan, Roland F. J. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Within the unique and complex settings of university hospitals, it is difficult to implement policy initiatives aimed at developing careers in and improving the quality of academic medical teaching because of the competing domains of medical research and patient care. Factors that influence faculty in making use of teaching policy incentives have…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Medical Education, Educational Policy, Universities
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Loads, Daphne; Campbell, Fiona – International Journal for Academic Development, 2015
We highlight three ways of conceptualising and enacting academic development: firstly as authentic, practice-based activity, secondly in terms of a new transformative paradigm for academic development units (ADUs), and thirdly as a space for disruption. We illustrate these conceptualisations through our investigation of the practice of internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Investigations, Teacher Placement
Cooper, John D. – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the important components of a comprehensive staff development program. To guide the investigation, a paradigm was constructed which identified the content areas of staff development as personal/professional, program/instructional, and organizational development; and which specified a statement of purpose or…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Models, Organizational Development
Magnesen, Vernon A.; Parker, Lynn Sullivan – 1988
This booklet is designed to assist community colleges in the design and implementation of staff and organizational development programs and reviews relevant issues and provides practical ideas for successful development efforts. After chapter I briefly introduces the audience for and intent of the booklet, chapter II describes 12 development…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development, Needs Assessment
Thomas, Carmelita; And Others – 1990
This report details the human resources development activities undertaken at Cypress College (CC) using Assembly Bill 1725 funds. The report includes information on activities conducted during the 1989-90 school and those planned for the 1990-1991 school year, along with results from needs assessments and evaluation surveys. The plan is divided…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Legislation, Faculty Development
De Candido, Linda S. – 1986
A sequentially planned program using quality circle techniques was adapted for the educational environment and Implemented in an elementary school in central Florida. The program consisted of 10 sessions designed to acquaint team leaders and administrators with the quality circle techniques and, under the direction of a trained facilitator, to…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Employer Employee Relationship