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Download full textIMS Illini Instructor Series, 1987
Four newsletter issues on college instruction cover large class instruction, working with teaching assistants (TAs), preparing a course syllabus, and practical approaches to dealing with cheating on exams. Specific topics include: deciding on content for large class lectures, selecting texts and readings, physical characteristics of the lecture…
Descriptors: Cheating, Class Size, College Instruction, Course Content
Loeher, Larry, Ed; And Others – The TA at UCLA Newsletter, 1985
Four issues of a University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) newsletter by and for teaching assistants (TAs) are presented, with focus on writing, grading, undergraduate instruction, and plagiarism. Topics include: making writing assignments that are clear and provide clear grading criteria; writing with computers, writing by scientists and…
Descriptors: Cheating, College Instruction, Grading, Graduate Students
Lee, John – NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, 1997
This report provides a descriptive overview of nonteaching employees in higher education institutions. The data for the report comes from the 1993 Fall Staff Survey of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) produced by the National Center for Education Statistics. The nonteaching staff at higher education institutions includes…
Descriptors: Administrators, Blacks, College Faculty, Colleges
Watts, Gordon E., Ed. – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1983
Designed as a forum for the exchange of practical and theoretical information regarding all aspects of personal, professional, and institutional development in postsecondary education, this journal contains articles, announcements, and resource reviews. The first issue of 1983 includes the following articles: "Institutionalizing Staff, Program and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Faculty Evaluation, Instructional Improvement, Merit Pay
Campus Report, 1987
The theme of this Indiana University-Bloomington newsletter is campus teaching improvement. Anya Royce outlines efforts of the Dean of Faculties Office to help improve teaching overall and especially the training of graduate student instructors, called associate instructors (AIs). Training AIs in three departments is described: Cathy Pons for…
Descriptors: Biology, College Instruction, College Science, Economics
Lenze, Lisa Firing – NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, 1996
In higher education, there is an increasing emphasis on development of discipline-specific pedagogical knowledge among faculty, whose central precept is the interconnectedness of content and teaching method. Some college and university faculty development centers have begun providing services in this area. The University of Washington's Center for…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Consultation Programs, Departments, Educational Principles
PDF pending restorationProfessional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. – 1982
This annual journal issue contains 21 papers, many of which were developed as background pieces for sessions of the annual conferences of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). Papers are grouped into four sections on: personal reflections, faculty development, evaluation of teaching practices, and…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Environment
Brinton, Donna; Gaskill, William – 1979
A one-week orientation program designed to increase the effectiveness of foreign teaching assistants (FTA) is described. As the program developed, a decision was made to include non-FTAs with the result that the English language proficiency of the participants covered a wide range and the objectives of the program were mixed. Because of the…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Training, English (Second Language)
Rhem, James, Ed. – National Teaching & Learning Forum, 1993
The six issues of this newsletter for academic year 1992/93 typically include one or more lead articles; the columns "Research Watch,""ERIC Tracks," and "Teaching Assistant (TA) Forum"; Case Studies; and Case Study Responses. Major articles and columns included in this volume are: "Cooperative Learning as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Cognitive Style, College Freshmen
Wulff, Donald H., Ed.; Nyquist, Jody D., Ed. – To Improve the Academy, 1992
This annual journal presents the latest thinking and research on important issues of faculty, instructional, and organizational development in postsecondary education. Essays in this issue and their authors are as follows: "Faculty Development and the New American Scholar" (William B. Bondeson); "Improving Higher Education: Issues…
Descriptors: Career Development, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, College Faculty
Annunziato, Frank R.; And Others – National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions Newsletter, 1994
This newsletter theme issue focuses on unionization of graduate student assistants at institutions of higher education. The first article, "Graduate Assistants and Unionization" by Frank R. Annunziato, points out that more than 21,000 graduate student assistants at public sector colleges/universities are represented by unions in eight…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Rights Legislation, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation
Loeher, Larry, Ed; And Others – The TA at UCLA Newsletter, 1987
Four issues of a University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) newsletter by and for teaching assistants (TAs) are presented, with focus on course syllabi, sexism, teacher evaluation, and foreign TAs. Consideration is given to: a positive classroom atmosphere; myths of college instruction; use of classroom tests; lecture methods; the "abused…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions
Zahorski, Kenneth J., Ed.; And Others – 1991
This annual journal issue contains 22 papers on issues of faculty development, diversity, adult learners, and instructional improvement in higher education. Many of the papers were developed for the annual conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). The papers are: (1) "What Theories…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, Consultants
Davis, Barbara G., Ed. – Teaching at Berkeley, 1985
Efforts to train graduate student instructors (GSIs) at the University of California, Berkeley, are considered in this newsletter issue. Administrative changes and ways to improve GSI selection, training, and evaluation are considered, along with: proposed changes in graduate student teaching titles, grants to help faculty and departments…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Departments, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Levenstein, Aaron – National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions Newsletter, 1980
Five sections make up the contents of this newsletter. A section on the aftermath of the Yeshiva College decision looks at later court decisions, injunctions and "unprotected" unions, administration unfair practices, the possibility of an administration revoking recognition in mid-contract, and administration tactics in circumventing the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
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