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Faculty
Professional Development Center: FPDC Opportunities
Teaching
Scholars Program Description
Kent
State University is one of eight institutions of higher education
invited to participate in the Ohio Teaching Enhancement for Junior
Faculty coordinated by Miami University. Other institutions include:
Bowling Green State University, Miami University, The Ohio State
University, Ohio University, Sinclair Community College, University
of Toledo, and Wright State University. The program on which this
collaborative effort is based was developed over the last twenty
years at Miami University. Miami's program was recognized nationally
when it received the prestigious Theodore Hesburg Award in 1994
for "being the most effective professional development program
in the United States in impacting undergraduate teaching and learning."
The Ohio Teaching Enhancement Program provides a collaborative approach
to enhancing undergraduate education through the work of faculty
in their first five years of teaching in higher education.
The
broad aims of the yearlong program include:
- enhancing
undergraduate learning
-
enhancing participants' teaching and learning
- building
a community of scholars around teaching: locally, statewide, and
nationally
The
elements of the program for participants include:
- Participating
in a yearlong program that focuses on teaching;
- The
development of collegial relationships across disciplines;
- Two
funded conferences on teaching: one in the fall at Miami University
(the Lilly Conference on Teaching) and one in the spring in California
(the Lilly West Conference on Teaching);
- A
one course load reallocation in teaching during either the fall
or spring semester of the project year;
- The
opportunity to focus on and develop an aspect of teaching and
learning during the program;
- Up
to $200 and the possibility of further support for a teaching
project during the program;
- Working
with a faculty mentor of the participant's choice;
- Working
with a student associate of the participant's choice;
- Developing
a language and methods for the scholarship of teaching, both individually
and as communities;
- An
ongoing program where faculty members finishing their year in
the program meet with new faculty beginning the program
Eligibility:
Tenure track faculty members in their first five years of
teaching at KSU
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