Open Access11: Faculty Teaching Partners and Associates: Engaging Faculty as Leaders in Instructional Development
Author(s) -
Wilhite Myra S.,
Lunde Joyce Povlacs,
Latta Gail F.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2000.tb00369.x
Subject(s) - excellence , teaching and learning center , faculty development , variety (cybernetics) , leverage (statistics) , university faculty , teacher leadership , teaching method , pedagogy , medical education , mathematics education , psychology , professional development , computer science , political science , educational leadership , medicine , artificial intelligence , machine learning , law
Special interest discussion groups provide opportunities for faculty to address specific instructional issues in a variety of areas including technology, distance learning, general teaching topics, pre‐tenure issues, honors teaching, and the like. In 1995, to leverage the Teaching and Learning Center's resources, outstanding classroom teachers were invited to provide leadership for discussion groups by serving as Partners or Associates. This chapter describes how an inexpensive faculty discussion‐group leadership program maximizes a teaching improvement center's resources, makes innovative teaching visible, and provides peer models for other faculty while helping promote an overall institutional culture that actively supports teaching excellence.