Open Access14: Promoting Learning‐Focused Teaching Through a Project‐Based Faculty Development Program
Author(s) -
Calkins Susanna,
Light Greg
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2008.tb00510.x
Subject(s) - teaching and learning center , faculty development , reflection (computer programming) , critical reflection , mathematics education , pedagogy , psychology , teaching method , critical thinking , medical education , professional development , computer science , medicine , programming language
This chapter describes how we incorporated project‐based learning into a yearlong faculty development program at a research‐intensive private university located in the Midwest. This inquiry‐based approach fosters critical reflection on teaching and promotes learner‐focused teaching in a manner that encourages deeper student approaches to learning. We use case studies, drawn from critical accounts of faculty projects, to illustrate a model that depicts how faculty understand improvement in their teaching and to identify key program elements that facilitated the adoption of learning‐focused teaching practices by our participants.