Faculty of the Year and Faculty of the Month are common ways to recognize individual contributions in areas such as service, attitude, or knowledge. While selecting a single Faculty of the Year is a prestigious honor typically reserved for one individual, there is no reason that multiple qualified recipients cannot be recognized every year.…

Faculty recognition plays a significant role in faculty engagement and development, yet traditional awards often fail to capture the full scope of teaching effectiveness. This article explores an innovative approach through a college-wide Teaching Effectiveness Advisory Group (TEAG), designed to assist faculty in developing artifacts that…

Whilst teaching Assistants (TAs) are a crucial part of the education workforce, their role and contribution is little understood, even by teachers they work alongside. By giving a voice to TAs, The Teaching Assistant Dilemma helps to tackle this lack of understanding. Highlighting the problems TAs face, not just that their contribution is…

In 2022, the Staff Educational Development Association (SEDA) developed the Student Partnership Impact Award (SPIA), providing students and recent alumni with an opportunity to be professionally accredited for their leadership abilities through partnership. SEDA is a professional association for educational developers based in the UK. The SPIA…

Rural educators need access to evidence-based instructional practices and technologies that meet the needs of our communities. Difficulty accessing quality professional development due to geographic isolation, limited access to specialists, cost constraints, staffing shortages, lack of access to resources and technology, and less time to…

Critiques of neoliberal capitalism have offered a rich vocabulary for the analysis of the political economy of literacy across professional, public, and classroom contexts. Since the Great Recession, commonplaces about work-readiness have been conditioned by economic precarity and changes to the social contract of work that blur the lines between…