How do I plan and implement faculty
development (including
professional development for graduate students) in a
technology-integrated
composition program?
- University faculty
development office:
- Make your needs known
to them
- Let them know how and
why you use technology in the classroom
- Inform them about
"best practices" and innovations in the field from around the world
- Give them ideas for
speakers and workshops
- Volunteer to help with
events
- Apply for grants
- Get your colleagues
and TAs involved in their events
- Other campus offices to
stay in touch with about speakers and partnerships:
- Career Services
- Graduate School
(professional development for graduate students)
- Internship Office
- Public Relations
- Development
- External Programs
- Conference Services
- Publishers and vendors:
- Make technology
support and faculty development for using technology part of a text
adoption agreement
- Partner with a
publisher to field test materials that benefit both the publisher and
the program
- Use royalties from
your custom-published materials to fund faculty development events
- Programmatic:
- Pedagogy seminar for
new TAs, with online and face-to-face resources and meetings
- Have program committee
develop, organize, and sponsor internal faculty development events
- Yearly program meeting
- Articulation/Calibration
meetings once a semester
- Monthly "First Friday
Colloquia"
- Ad hoc new TA and peer
mentoring
- Online and face-to-face
activities and resources should balance and complement each
other. Mention online resources and discussions at every
face-to-face meeting,