Faculty Development: Creating a Collaborative Culture in Community Colleges addresses how faculty developers work with changes and challenges in teaching within the community college context. Using a multi-case study design based on semi-structured interviews, document analysis, focus groups and surveys, the book examines faculty development within six community college contexts. Three of these case studies, conducted before the Covid-19 pandemic, attended to how the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) were pillars for faculty development. The other three case studies feature the pivot that faculty developers and faculty made at their institutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In these cases, it is seen how faculty development shifts from long-term, sustained initiatives such as SOTL and FLCs to just-in-time (JiT) faculty development, as well as virtual and collaborative faculty development. As teaching models continue to evolve and faculty development takes hold in community colleges, this book features the role of collaboration as an essential component of faculty development, as well as what supports exist within the community college context to provide faculty with continual professional development.
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Faculty Development addresses how faculty developers work with changes and challenges in teaching within the community college context. Using a multi-case study design based on semi-structured interviews, document analysis, focus groups and surveys, the book examines faculty development during both the pre-pandemic and pandemic eras.
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The faculty in a community college is the engine that makes this complex and comprehensive institution work. But all are not prepared for the task to ensure that the most underprepared and diverse students in all of higher education will succeed. A sound program in faculty development led by highly qualified professionals is the only hope that a community college has to live up to its promise as “Democracy’s College.” This new book by two seasoned leaders, Faculty Development: Creating a Collaborative Culture in Community Colleges, is the best guide in decades and should become the go-to source for all seriously committed to the continuing development of faculty.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781475859089
Publisert
2021-11-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
218 gr
Høyde
206 mm
Bredde
144 mm
Dybde
9 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
154

Om bidragsyterne

Farrell Hoy Jenab, EdD, is director of faculty development at Johnson County Community College.

Heidi L. Hallman, PhD, is professor in the department of curriculum and teaching at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on how prospective teachers are prepared to teach in diverse school contexts.