Faculty Driven Professional Development
Conference Tracks
Academic/ Professional Development - Research
Abstract
The Teaching Innovation Group is a faculty driven professional development group that provides mutual support for innovative teaching practices. The group functions as an adhocratic structure where members discuss the scholarship of teaching and learning, teaching innovation, and teaching/learning predicaments. Topics included student feedback, curriculum mapping, mind mapping, etc. Results of surveys of participants and analysis of meeting notes suggests that this type of professional development facilitates meaningful improvements in classroom practice and needed support for innovation. We will discuss results as well as recommendations for structures for adhocratic groups and present examples of problems of practice tackled by the group.
Session Format
Poster
1
Publication Type and Release Option
Image (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Bloom, Lisa and Noltensmeyer, Candy, "Faculty Driven Professional Development" (2022). SoTL Commons Conference. 12.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2022/12
Faculty Driven Professional Development
The Teaching Innovation Group is a faculty driven professional development group that provides mutual support for innovative teaching practices. The group functions as an adhocratic structure where members discuss the scholarship of teaching and learning, teaching innovation, and teaching/learning predicaments. Topics included student feedback, curriculum mapping, mind mapping, etc. Results of surveys of participants and analysis of meeting notes suggests that this type of professional development facilitates meaningful improvements in classroom practice and needed support for innovation. We will discuss results as well as recommendations for structures for adhocratic groups and present examples of problems of practice tackled by the group.
