Open Access17: USING STUDENTS TO SUPPORT FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Author(s) -
Redd Teresa M.,
Jr. Carl E. Brown
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2011.tb00634.x
Subject(s) - excellence , medical education , mathematics education , center of excellence , teaching and learning center , faculty development , psychology , pedagogy , engineering management , engineering , computer science , teaching method , professional development , medicine , political science , database , law
Howard University's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CETLA) provides faculty development for more than fifteen hundred faculty. Yet it is CETLA's students who make the difference. They are both the motivation for improving teaching and the means to that end. Students have contributed to everything from the design of CETLA's infrastructure, to the implementation of instructional technologies, to the assessment of student learning. Meanwhile, supporting faculty development has contributed to the students' own development. A cost‐benefit analysis as well as survey data confirms that working with students at CETLA is a win‐win opportunity for the university, faculty, students, and CETLA.