Comments on: Teaching Faculty Members to Fish? http://cac.ophony.org/2006/01/23/teaching-faculty-members-to-fish/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kate http://cac.ophony.org/2006/01/23/teaching-faculty-members-to-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Kate Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:33:14 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2006/01/23/teaching-faculty-members-to-fish/#comment-87 Hey Nancy! Welcome! PD = Professional Development, right? Yes--I think not only buy-in, but also full participation (in other words, participants are seen as bringing the professional development, while the facilitators focus on bringing it out of them, making it happen) is the only way to go. But I am in Joanna's team, so I, too, am especially interested in everyone's responses. Hey Nancy! Welcome!

PD = Professional Development, right?

Yes–I think not only buy-in, but also full participation (in other words, participants are seen as bringing the professional development, while the facilitators focus on bringing it out of them, making it happen) is the only way to go.
But I am in Joanna’s team, so I, too, am especially interested in everyone’s responses.

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]]> By: Nancy http://cac.ophony.org/2006/01/23/teaching-faculty-members-to-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Nancy Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:35:33 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2006/01/23/teaching-faculty-members-to-fish/#comment-86 As a high school teacher who frequently leads PD for my colleagues, I would say yes, it's an immensely valuable use of resources to work with faculty in developing and honing teaching practice. The caveat here, is that there has to be buy-in from the faculty. It may be different at the college level, but at the high school, there is often resistance to this kind of PD, esp. among senior teachers. As a high school teacher who frequently leads PD for my colleagues, I would say yes, it’s an immensely valuable use of resources to work with faculty in developing and honing teaching practice. The caveat here, is that there has to be buy-in from the faculty. It may be different at the college level, but at the high school, there is often resistance to this kind of PD, esp. among senior teachers.

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