Investigated Israeli college teachers' attitudes toward the new Staff Promotion Programme, which was designed to elevate teachers' positions by establishing criteria for promotion, emphasizing research rather than teaching at higher promotional levels. Faculty interviews and surveys indicated that respondents preferred to be evaluated according to…

Analyzes the use of a listserv after a teleconference as part of a faculty development activity. Indicates that 62% of participants in the listserv actively contributed to discussions, 82% reported that using the listserv enhanced the teleconference, and 44% reported that the listserv facilitated changes in the way they completed their work.…

A survey of one college's faculty (n=101) concerning classroom use of technology reveals limited exploitation of its potential, and suggests a different approach to faculty development in technology that provides a more substantial infrastructure, rewards, and a variety of techniques to keep both faculty and students interested. (MSE)

Thirty-eight teacher preparation programs and 65 instructional programs serving students with deafness were surveyed on leaderships needs in deaf education. More than 80% of the preparation programs indicated they had attempted to hire a faculty member within the past 3 years with 97% not satisfied with the pool of applicants. (Contains…

Discusses how to organize a strong year-round faculty development program, touching on everything a foreign language department does. Such a program depends on a cooperative enterprise involving shared goals, mutual growth, and persistent good examples. (Author/VWL)

Offers brief descriptions from seven secondary school teachers describing a workshop or inservice activity that has been particularly valuable for their teaching, including a Shakespeare seminar, a Socratic teaching seminar, English-as-a-second language courses, a new teacher induction program, a program on the "Brody paragraph" method, and the…

Higher education leaders are calling for more emphasis on teaching as a primary faculty role. The scholarship of teaching and learning lies at the juncture of teaching and other scholarships and should create multiple products available for peer scrutiny. In sociology, the scholarship of teaching and learning has the potential to promote social…

Discusses the Professional Development Initiative, created by the University of South Carolina and the state's technical college system to provide technical college faculty and administrators with professional development activities. Indicates that the program has two components: a set of six core courses to improve organizational understanding…

A learning activity designed for an Association of Experiential Educators workshop asked participants to lead their group through a maze symbolizing the obstacles and frustration encountered when implementing experiential education programs. Includes goals, set-up, sample presentation, and suggestions for debriefing participants. (LP)

Explores the concept of professionalism in teaching and the facilitation of learning in higher education in the United Kingdom, discussing the role of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The article suggests that professionalizing teaching cannot occur through restrictions on the right to practice, but instead will come…

Describes one mentor teacher's development in understanding the influence of instructional context on her ability to successfully mentor, comparing patterns identified to novice teachers' developmental stages. Results reveal that learning to mentor is a conscious process of induction into a different teaching context and does not emerge naturally…

Presents a statement from the Society for College Science Teachers (SCST) that provides guidance on the important processes of promotion and tenure, and to help college science teachers reflect on their own teaching and make improvements. (ASK)

Using an article on the dichotomy between teaching and research as a starting point, this article explores whether a love for the subject in necessary to produce good teachers or good students in higher education. (EV)

Ory emphasizes four processes in assessing faculty: examining the craft of teaching; faculty members reflecting on the quality of and standards for their work; receiving feedback from others with the expectation that faculty will improve and assessing the work of others by focusing on the value of the work. (JM)

Examines the professional development of university faculty in Japan, phenomenographically through an insider-participatory case study involving all teachers of English in one Japanese university. Explains a hybrid model of a university teacher, and describes evaluation criteria that were elicited from teachers themselves and then applied to…