Community College Faculty Attitudes,Socialization Experiences,and Perceived Teaching Effectiveness

Abstract

This study seeks to determine whether variance in teaching effectiveness of community college faculty, as assessed by students, can be attributed to particular attitudes and/or socialization experiences of these faculty. A theoretical model derived from symbolic interaction theory is tested by path analysis. Data to test the model were obtained through a 1973 survey of faculty and students at five community colleges in Pennsylvania. On the basis of this analysis, the authors conclude that the “predictor” variables used in this study and often by administrators in developing faculty selection policies do not correlate highly with teaching effectiveness.     

Community College Faculty Development Program and Student Achievement

Community college administrators look for strategies to help students. GRASP (Gaining Retention and Achievement for Students Program) is a semester-long faculty development program that coaches community college instructors about simple, effective teaching strategies that promote student academic achievement. GRASP is founded on the belief that academic achievement is based on good teaching, which begins with faculty development. The major assumption for GRASP is that faculty are the single most important factor for student success. GRASP was offered at Doña Ana Community College (DACC). Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, just 40 miles from the border of Mexico, DACC has a student population that is 70% minority. Results for GRASP indicate that overall student success improved by 7.9%, and that overall student retention improved by 4.0% for students participating in GRASP.     

Perceptions of Community College Adjunct Faculty and Division Chairpersons: Support,Mentoring, and Professional Development to Sustain Academic Quality

The fabric of higher education has changed dramatically in recent years with a sudden increase in the presence of part-time, nontenured faculty. Adjunct faculty have a significant presence in higher education institutions and need opportunities available to them so they feel like an important part of academic culture and are prepared to teach. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the similarities and differences in perceptions between three division chairpersons and 15 adjunct faculty members from three separate departments regarding teaching support, mentoring, and professional development opportunities at one community college. It was found that chairs and mentors appeared to be the most valuable individuals in supporting, acclimating, and retaining adjunct faculty according to the participants in this study. Without the roles chairs and mentors assumed, adjunct faculty could flounder and teaching quality could be hindered.     

Community College Faculty Competencies

Much has been written about the characteristics of effective college teachers. However, skill sets have not yet been defined with any level of specificity. Also, instructors at community colleges have unique working conditions and challenges that influence how they teach. This paper illustrates the use of three studies conducted to build and validate a framework for defining the competencies of effective community college faculty. The project's culmination was a set of skills used to redesign one university's master's in education (MAEd) program in two-year college teaching. Although participants in all three studies identified subject matter expertise as an important competency, they emphasized several other skill sets as being important for meaningful student learning. Those skills are related to the use of authentic activities and multiple instructional delivery models, multiple ways of assessing student learning, and skills that are necessary outside the classroom in their teaching roles. Participants also emphasized interpersonal and affective components of effective teaching.     

高校教师在线专业发展的学习共同体机制探究

高校教师专业发展必须从外部驱动的＂目标—结果＂范式转向教师的专业自觉行为,使教师成为教学的行动研究者和反思者。教师在线学习共同体的出现,为教师专业发展开辟了一条新的途径。依据在线教师发展的内涵,高校教师专业发展的在线学习共同体机制的结构体系有交互层、媒介层和资源层三层,其具有共同的文化认同,共同的学习氛围、共同的学习机制、共同的学习资源、共同的行动研究及共同的愿景等特征。     

论我国高校教师专业发展及其培训

教师培训是其专业发展的必然要求,教师专业发展是其培训的重要依据。应坚持"以人为本"的发展理念,根据准备期、职初期、稳定期、倦怠期、专家期等不同阶段的教师专业发展特点,通过树立自我发展意识、尝试职前培养、开发校本培训、应对职业倦怠、孕育学术大师等自我实现或学校推动途径来创新教师培训策略,使教师顺利实现专业角色的转型与升级。     

高校非计算机专业计算机基础课程教学现状与探究

就非计算机专业开设的计算机基础课程进行研究,分析该课程的特点,并从学校、教师、学生三个方面分析该课程的课堂教学现状,提出所存在的问题,最后探讨解决以上问题的方法,从而改善课堂教学现状,增强课堂教学效果,使学生掌握更多的计算机基础知识,更好地适应当今信息化的社会。     

高职院校教师教学发展中心的定位研究——基于湖职院教师专业发展与教学需求的调研分析

高职院校建立教师教学发展中心是提高教师教学水平、促进教师专业发展的必然要求。通过对湖州职业技术学院169位教师的调查分析,结合教师教学发展中心建设的实践,提出了高职院校教师教学发展中心以服务教师生涯发展为宗旨,关爱教师专业成长为导向,立足校本内涵建设促进教师职业发展的定位。     

Content-driven Faculty Development in Community College Early Childhood Education Programs

Community colleges are key providers of early childhood teacher and paraprofessional education, and their programs include content knowledge that helps future educators work effectively with young children with and without disabilities in inclusive environments. In this article, we describe the Advancing Community College Efforts in Paraprofessional Training (ACCEPT) Project, a multi-year collaboration to infuse special education content into four North Carolina early childhood workforce education associate degree programs. The goals of the project included creating a climate that fostered and encouraged ongoing community college and university faculty collaboration around the planning, delivery, and assessment of special education content infused within multiple early childhood program courses. Project objectives are presented within the framework employed by Murray (1995, 1998, 1999, 2000) that includes climate, structure, connections with rewards, faculty ownership, colleague support, and perceived value by administrators. Implications for practice include the importance of content, project standards, and faculty ownership.     

Faculty Incentives for Online Course Design, Delivery, and Professional Development

This quantitative study investigated the types and frequency of incentives for online instruction at non-profit institutions of higher education with an established teaching and learning development unit. While up to 70 % of institutions offer incentives, this support is not universal and varies by incentive type and purpose.     

论高等学校院系级教学的改革与发展

高等学校的教学改革与发展虽然被高等教育的教学理论研究和实践所重视，但作为高等学校教学主体和实体的院系级的教学改革与发展却往往被忽视。高等学校院系级教学的改革与发展，涉及理念、学科、专业、课程、教学活动等领域，必须系统思考，整体设计和全面推进，才能全面提高教学质量。     

Hiring and Developing Quality Community College Faculty

There is a likely community college teacher shortage on the horizon. Thus, community colleges not only need to focus on hiring quality instructors who emphasize teaching excellence, but institutions need to invest time and resources developing quality faculty plans to address faculty needs and provide adequate faculty development programs. When Iowa's community college licensure law was repealed in 2003, 15 area community colleges were left with the task of developing their own quality faculty plans. The Quality Faculty Plan design and one-year implementation is assessed.     

Part-Time Faculty and Community College Student Success

With the Completion Agenda taking such political prominence, community colleges are experiencing even more pressure to find ways to promote and improve student success. One way that has been suggested is to limit the reliance on part-time faculty under the premise that the employment status of faculty has a direct influence on student success. The tacit assumption is that full-time faculty are more engaged with their home institution, and this engagement translates into the engagement of the students taught. The present study examined employment status of faculty on the success of students enrolled in four, two-course sequences. Using Pearson chi-square and binary logistic regression analyses, it was concluded that employment status of the faculty has no statistical influence on student success as has been previously claimed. These results suggest that community colleges should not assume that hiring more full-time faculty will improve student success and, instead, should possibly consider utilizing funds otherwise allocated to hiring new full-time faculty on the development and compensation of part-time faculty.     

Technology Usage Among Community College Faculty

Community colleges are increasing their use of part-time faculty who are taking a leading role in utilizing technology for instructional purposes. Part-time faculty are less likely than their full-time counterparts to use technology for instructional purposes and are less likely to teach non-face-to-face classes. For community colleges to be successful in expanding technology-based education, they must promote technology use by all faculty. This quantitative, national study reports factors found to predict faculty use of technology for instructional purposes.     

大学英语教师在教学改革中的专业发展问题探究

基于计算机和课堂的多媒体教学模式的大学英语教学改革对大学英语教师提出了更高的要求。大学英语教师的专业发展问题越来越受到教育界的关注。本文针对我国大学英语教师专业发展的现状,着重强调了大学英语教师的终身化学习理念,并提出建立多样性,多渠道的教师培训方式和以＂反思性教学＂为主的教师自主发展模式。     

教师专业共同体视阈下的高校外语教师专业发展路径探析

教师专业共同体是一个促进教师专业发展的教师专业组织,旨在通过合作、学习和经验分享来实现教师专业的发展。教师专业共同体作为一种有效的教师专业发展模式,能为当下高校外语教师的知识结构、教学模式及科学研究提供强有力的支持和丰富的资源。作为教师专业发展的一种路径选择,高校可以依托教师专业发展的理论和发展模式,转变教师个人观念和重塑教师文化,创设网络平台学习共同体及核心人物的引领来不断促进外语教师的发展。     

校本教研促进教师专业发展的策略研究

在新课程背景下,以校为本的理念被引入学校发展中,教师自身的专业发展得到了重视,教师可以通过自我反思、同伴互助和专业引领的策略来进行校本教研,并以此来促进自身的专业发展和学校的发展.     

基于虚拟社区的高校教师专业发展策略研究

虚拟社区能为高校教师的专业发展提供持续支持,有助于形成旨在促进教师深层次反思的学习共同体,能为教师的隐性知识向显性知识转化提供平台支持,为教师灵活自主开展学习提供可能。但也面临着如何提高虚拟社区的利用效率、如何激励教师们进行知识共享并减少只享受不分享的"搭便车"现象。创建积极有效的专业化学习共同体、建设强有力的资源库、运用知识加工工具促进知识的转化和共享、运用多种评价工具帮助教师进行评价反思,能切实推进虚拟社区建设,有效促进高校教师的专业发展。     

以促进高校教师专业发展为导向的教学评价模式改革

教学评价是高校提高教学质量的重要措施之一,目前高校教学评价制度多以考核、奖惩为目的,侧重于鉴定性功能,没有充分发挥对教师专业发展提供支持和帮助的作用。本文从教学评价制度设计的层面,分析传统评价模式存在的局限性,提出了以促进教师专业发展为导向,在评价目标、评价标准、评价主体、评价方法、评价结果等方面实现五个转变的改革思路。