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"Learning Is How We Should Do Better": First-Year Writing Shared Curricula, Teacher Learning, and Agency
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Keaton Kirkpatrick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation aims to center the experiences of first-year writing educators in one program with a shared curriculum. Guided by social theories of learning and scholarship and practices in writing studies and writing program administration, I conducted qualitative surveys and interviews with teaching-focused faculty and graduate teaching…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, College Faculty
The Design and Evaluation of Online Faculty Development for Effective Graduate Supervision
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Michele Jacobsen; Hawazen Alharbi; Lisa M. Taylor; Les Bairstow; Verena Roberts – OTESSA Journal, 2021
This design-based research aims to improve the quality of graduate supervision using a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The Quality Graduate Supervision MOOC brings interdisciplinary faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and expert supervisors together in an online learning community to discuss and consider effective supervision practice, strategies…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Evaluation, MOOCs, Graduate School Faculty
Academisation and Teachers' Dilemmas
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Hansson, Kristina; Erixon, Per-Olof – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
In 2010, the Swedish Education Act introduced new provisions stating that education at all levels should 'rest on scientific grounds and proven experience'. These requirements led to greater policy activities at the state level and enhanced the cooperation emerging between the municipality and higher education as well as between teachers and…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Municipalities, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
A Qualitative Case Study of Field-Based Teacher Education: One Candidate's Evolving Expertise of Science Teaching for Emergent Bilinguals
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Heineke, Amy J.; Smetana, Lara; Carlson Sanei, Jenna – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2019
Teacher education programs are responsible for preparing science teachers for today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, which includes preparing them to support students' science learning and language development. Given the rapid growth in linguistic diversity across the country, science teacher preparation for English learners,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers
Designing Programs to Prepare TAs to Teach.
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Weimer, Maryellen; And Others – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1989
As concern about the role and performance of teaching assistants grows, universities find themselves initiating training programs. Issues to be considered include: who should provide training, relationships between the different providers, program requirements and curricula, length of the program, follow-up activities, preparation for…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Foreign Students
Designing a Program to Prepare Graduate Students for Career as College Teachers.
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Davis, William E.; Minnis, Douglas L. – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
In the University of California (Davis) Program in College Teaching, graduate teaching assistants develop and fulfill contractual agreements for faculty-guided investigations into their disciplines, with supporting individualized activities about practices and issues of college teaching. Aspects of the program's development and effectiveness are…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Faculty Development, Graduate Students, Higher Education