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Download full textTravis, Jon E. – 1996
Based on a longer report with the same title, this digest summarizes what college faculty can do to improve their teaching. It maintains that faculty need to stop viewing college teaching as "covering the content" and start viewing it as "helping students learn." To help faculty achieve such an instructional transformation,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Development
Huling, Leslie; Resta, Virginia – 2001
Teacher mentoring programs have increased dramatically since the early 1980s as a vehicle to support and retain novice teachers. However, researchers and facilitators of mentoring programs are recognizing that mentors also derive substantial benefits from the mentoring experience. This digest examines research on how mentoring contributes to the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Instructional Leadership
Paulsen, Michael B.; Feldman, Kenneth A. – 1995
Based on a longer report with the same title, this digest summarizes current efforts to increase the quality of college teaching. The report uses a model that views strategies for improving instruction as helping motivate individual faculty members to improve their teaching by actively changing (and maintaining) certain of their instructional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Environment, Feedback, Higher Education
Short, Deborah J.; Echevarria, Jana – 1999
The project described in this digest was designed with the belief that teacher professional growth can best be fostered through sustained collaborative inquiry between teachers and researchers. It set out to incorporate what is known about quality professional development with the special features necessary for meeting the needs of English…
Descriptors: Cooperation, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Lesson Plans
Ferraro, Joan M. – 2000
Reflective practice can be beneficial to preservice and inservice teacher professional development. This digest reviews the concept, levels, techniques for, and benefits of reflective practice. Donald Schon introduced the concept in 1987, and since then, many schools, colleges, and departments of education have begun designing teacher education…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Borgia, Eileen T.; Schuler, Dorothy – 1996
Action research is an approach to professional development and improved student learning in which teachers systematically reflect on their work, seek feedback from colleagues, and make changes in their practice. Several benefits of action research have been cited: (1) teachers investigate their own practice in a new way, looking at what children…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Critical Thinking, Data Collection
