Internal Professional Development Through Program Planning
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
2-25-2016
Abstract or Description
As teaching centers one of our primary goals is to provide high quality professional development opportunities to instructors. However, our own professional development is often neglected, to the detriment of those we serve and ourselves. Following several organizational changes, staff of the CT2 decided to follow an outcomes-based design model to evaluate and re-envision our center's mission and focus. Beyond accomplishing the intended goals of our strategic planning -- which included establishing center goals, setting priorities, aligning programming with outcomes, as well as team building -- we found the process itself could be an opportunity for internal professional development. In our presentation we will briefly introduce the outcomes- based strategic planning process we used and demonstrate several ways in which it can support and advance professional development within a Teaching Center and promote an attitude of lifelong learning for ourselves. We will invite participants to reflect on the benefits and challenges of seeing ourselves more intentionally in the role of learners in addition to teaching teachers. Finally, participants will be asked to consider how internal professional development can become an integral part of their centers mission and activities.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium Annual Conference (SRFIDC)
Location
Atlanta, GA
Recommended Citation
Cornejo Happel, Claudia, Rachel D. Schwartz.
2016.
"Internal Professional Development Through Program Planning."
Department of Health Policy and Community Health Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 85.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/hpmb-facpres/85
