Barriers to Improving Instruction

1.  Resistance

2.  Faculty Assumptions

3.  Academic Environments

4.  Professional Characteristics

• Emotional/psychologically draining
• Lack of instructional training
• Inability to cope with changing student population
  

5.  Credential - Ph.D   Does this equate to having the ability to teach?

Ways to Overcome Barriers

1.  Developmental rather than punitive

2.  Faculty are in charge of the improvement process:  Change begins at the bottom

3.  Administrative support for change

• $ for resources
• Opportunities for development

4.  Administrators must believe in improvement

• Make faculty stake holders