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| September 16 | November 18 |
| September 23 | November 25 |
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| October 7 | December 2 |
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August
26 (Monday)
Introduction
of class members
Introduction
to course: syllabus, assignments,
Why should we be concerned abut improving
instruction in colleges?
How should changes be made? What is it going to
take to make changes?
Group work: What makes a
good teacher? What makes a good classroom?
Should we be concerned with
teaching or learning?
Read Chapter 1-7 Improving College Teaching for
next week.
September
9
Class will be held in AD 106 PBCC south
Review syllabus and discuss one hour topic presentations.
Review website.
Barriers to improving college teaching
Eliminating
the Barriers to Improving Teaching
Assignment: Read
Chapter 8-10 Improving College teaching
for next week
Improving
College Teaching by Peter Selden
September
16
Learn the five step improvement process for approaching better teaching.
1. Developing Instructional Awareness
2. Gathering Information
3. Change, Make Choices
4. Implement Alterations
5. Assess Effectiveness
1. Awareness
Teachers must become aware of their beliefs and values.
Do exercise Examining Beliefs and Values
Taken from Teaching from the Heart, Jerold W. Apps, 1996, p63
Finding
your Teaching Style
Taken from Mastering the Teaching Adults, Jerold W. Apps, 1991, p23
Identify
your Philosophical Teaching Orientation
Take the Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory
Taken From: Adult Learning Methods, Michael W. Galbraith, 1998, p 57
2. Gathering Information
Review evaluation
forms: Student, self directed, observation instruments
How effective are these forms.
Discuss type of
class you would like to observe. Need to do both face to face and
online.
What characteristics do you need to observe?
Differences between improvement vs. evaluation, punitive vs. developmental.
3. Making Choices
How does the faculty member know what
to change and to what?
A Flexible Mix of Improvement Activities:p82
Reading
p84
Videotaping and Microteaching
Dialogue p93
Policy Development and
methods of improving instruction in colleges.
Climate for Instructional Improvement:
Create a pictorial rendition of what it takes to have the right climate using
the concepts from Chapter 7.
How to cultivate improvement efforts.
Create an instructional development program. Develop a form to assess
a Faculty Development center. Visit the Professional Teaching and Learning
Center on South Campus CB 203.
Reading Assignment: Who Moved My Cheese? for next week.
September
23
How to deal with
change.
Guest speaker: Dr. Patti Anderson Resistance to Change - The
Personality Type Connection
Discussion of Who Moved My Cheese?
September
30
Creating the Climate for Teaching and Learning
What is motivation?
Implications of learning theories - 4 MAT
What are learning communities: Can they promote and optimize student learning.?
Read Teaching Online for next week
"Community colleges pride themselves on being "teaching institutions", concerned as no other form of formal schooling is with teaching a wide variety of students. But herein lies a paradox: few states require preparation in pedagogy or curriculum for teaching in the community colleges."
Read: Teaching Online for next week.
October
7
Transforming Teaching and Learning Though
Technology
Using Technology
in the Classroom "What Happened to the Little Red School House?"
How the Internet is changing how we learn.
How online learning is different.
The future of online learning.
Evaluation of online classroom
October
14
Computer Lab
Making Web Pages - Come prepared to create a home page for a Faculty Development
Center or class. Have a few hyperlinks in mind.
October
21
Faculty / classroom Evaluation
How to evaluate instruction
Actual evaluation of instructors
Handouts
What are you looking for?
Sign - up for class at PBCC
One hour evaluation: Come back to class and discuss experience.
Role play meeting with the teacher to discus the evaluation and improvement
strategies.
October
28
Discussion of faculty evaluation
Student assessment
November
4
Faculty Development Center/Teaching and Learning Centers
Come prepared to discuss one program that you have reviewed online or otherwise.
One student presentation: 5:45- 6:45
November
11
Holiday
November
18
Student Presentations
4:30 - 5:30
5:45 - 6:45
November
25
Student Presentations
4:30 - 5:30
5:45 - 6:45
December
2
Student Presentations
4:30 - 5:30
5:45 - 6:45
December
9
Present final Faculty Expectation Statement
Present your idea of an ideal "program" or "activity" that
would improve instruction in colleges
Revised 09/15/02