Influencing educational decision makers requires creating ongoing relationships, keeping everyone informed, and developing persuasive skills. Persuasion requires preparation, refinement, hard work, and a sound understanding of the people being lobbied. Lobbying must be factual and relevant to the audience. The article looks at influence from the…

A literature review looks at issues concerning college/university faculty and the preparation of the future professoriate, including who current faculty are, how academic careers ar structured, what formal qualifications faculty need at different career stages, how faculty are prepared for their different functions, and implications for training…

Discusses the theoretical basis for a teacher development project designed to generate innovative strategies for teacher development using information technology. The article describes strategies by modes and models, recommending a model based on teacher needs. The article examines outcomes of the project based on its relationship to the…

Describes Jackson Community College's Professional Development Center, a drop-in center housing print and nonprint materials on hundreds of professional development topics. Reviews college efforts to motivate staff to use the center. Outlines the center's evaluation criteria. (DMM)

There is an urgent need to bring values into the college curriculum. College human resources personnel are uniquely qualified to train college faculty and administrators in ethics and to assist in development of curricula in each discipline incorporating ethics. (MSE)

In one state university, an administrator, working closely with a small group of faculty, established a classroom research group which built on the successes and visibility of an existing campuswide faculty development program. The group won colleague acceptance by fostering interaction and cooperation across disciplines and following a patient…

Describes the establishment of the very visible and successful Five College Foreign Language Resource Center, focusing on the grantsmanship, equipment, benefits and pitfalls of a consortial approach, involvement with high schools, and a planned summer colloquium. (Author/CB)

Discussion of scholarly productivity (i.e., publication based on research) highlights a study of library and information science faculty that investigated gender differences in scholarly publication. Variables related to productivity are compared by sex, and results are reported that show findings are inconclusive. (21 references) (LRW)

Discusses the role of the instructor in distance education programs and how that role differs from faculty in traditional educational settings. The impact of instructional technology is considered; methods of improving faculty receptivity to and attitudes toward distance education are described; and duties of faculty in distance education are…

Criticizes the University of Washington interprofessional education program for its unclear mission, faculty-driven origins, and lack of desired outcomes and accompanying theories of change. Contrasts the UW program with a Miami University program encompassing 12 schools and representatives of health and social service agencies. Universities are…

Reflective questioning creates opportunities for individuals to reflect aloud, be heard by one or more colleagues, and be prompted to expand and extend thinking through follow-up questions. The article examines the origin of reflective questioning, explains how to develop reflective questioning skills, and discusses outcomes associated with…

Discusses how teachers can choose quality inservice workshops to suit their needs. The guide explains quality inservice in action, five ways to select a great inservice, questions to ask before and after the inservice, how to win $1,000 for the next inservice, and where to go for more information. (SM)

Discusses the "ADE Statement of Good Practice: Teaching, Evaluation, and Scholarship" and the related issue of peer evaluation and the deprivatization of the classroom. Outlines the benefits of peer review of teaching. Argues for increased attention to the documentation of teaching. Appends the "Statement." (HB)

Teachers are limited in their power to control professional development. Even with good promotional efforts, teacher development often is unconnected to broader questions about education in a democratic society. The paper argues for genuine efforts to promote teacher development that are connected to promotion of equity and social justice. (SM)

Discusses how teacher educators can critically examine their own conceptual frameworks, teaching methods, strategies, and techniques, and how they can maintain dialog with colleagues to make more thoughtful decisions about their own teaching practices and to more effectively link course content and the learning process. (Author/KB)