Category: Faculty Development
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An Introduction to Visually Mapping Curriculum
Visually mapping out curriculum is a way to better understand your course, program, or major and can help you make decisions on curriculum development or changes, assist students with navigating programs, and/or help you talk about your program. This post outlines a short workshop on visually mapping curriculum. You can use the post to guide […]
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Reflective Practice and the Formative Annual Review Framework
These are the notes and links for a conversation about the Formative Annual Review (FAR) framework and Reflective Practice that I had with a group of MSU faculty. Brief overview of FAR Framework Formative Annual Review (FAR) is an active approach to annual review, allowing us to take control of our narratives, shape them, and […]
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Pathways to Presencing Fellows Project – FAR Framework
Today I spent a wonderful afternoon with colleagues engaged in the Pathways to Presencing Fellows program talking about our projects and sharing ideas. The fellowship program gives “space and time” for us to engage in ways we are enacting the Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership (CPIL) framework. CPIL seeks to “empower staff and faculty to […]
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Resources for K12 Teachers Moving Online
Earlier this summer my colleague Jeremy Van Hof and I began to work with administrators and teachers in Okemos Public Schools to plan for and develop training materials for supporting K12 teachers moving courses online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result was a set of materials and accompanying workshops we titled the Foundations of Successful […]
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Model for Professional Development and Course Quality in Online Teaching
The Challenge: What Resources to Draw On When Planning Online Learning When developing online courses it is often difficult, as an instructor, to determine which resources to connect with at different points of the process. From an administrative perspective, it can also be difficult to determine which supports to invest in and plan for, in […]
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Faculty Working Group on Digital Presence and Public Scholarship
This fall I’m co-leading a faculty working group focused on digital presence and public scholarship. Our working group is a collaboration with the Colleges of Arts and Letters, Education, and Natural Science, and brings together about 20 faculty and academic staff from those areas. While the technical solutions provided through services such as Reclaim Hosting’s […]