Collectively Improving Our Teaching: Attempting Biology Department-wide Professional Development in Scientific Teaching
| Autor: | Scott William Roy, Loretta A Kelley, Michael Green, Kimberly D. Tanner, Barry S. Rothman, V. Thomas Parker, Ravinder N. M. Sehgal, Yee-Hung M Chan, Candace Low, Lance Lund, José R. de la Torre, Jonathon H. Stillman, Jonathan D. Knight, Katherine Farrar, Gloriana Trujillo, Kevin A. Simonin, Robert Patterson, Carmen R. Domingo, Robyn J. Crook, Darleen Franklin, William P. Cochlan, Edward J. Carpenter, Joseph M Romeo, Brinda Govindan, Sally G. Pasion, Julio Ramirez, Joseph C. Chen, Andrea Swei, Leslie C. Timpe, Megumi Fuse, Lynne M Dowdy, Karen D. Crow, Peter Ingmire, Michael A. Goldman, Terrye L Light, Rori V. Rohlfs, Steven L. Weinstein, Gretchen LeBuhn, Christopher A. Moffatt, Blake Riggs, Jennifer L. Breckler, Melinda T. Owens, Gloria Nusse, Hilary P Benton, Laura W. Burrus, Zheng-Hui He, Linda H Chen, Heather Gardner Murdock, Holly E Harris, Lily Chen, Greg S. Spicer, Amber R B Johnson, Katharyn E. Boyer, Diana S Chu, Leticia Márquez-Magaña, Colin D Harrison, Tatiane Russo-Tait, Robert M. Ramirez, Natalia Caporale, Vanessa C Miller-Sims, J R Blair, Shannon B. Seidel, Wilfred F. Denetclaw, Dana T. Byrd, Andrew G. Zink, Stephen B Ingalls, Vance T. Vredenburg, Pleuni S. Pennings |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Higher education Teaching method MEDLINE General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Education 03 medical and health sciences Surveys and Questionnaires ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Humans Program Development Students Biology Medical education Motivation ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry 4. Education Multimethodology Teaching 05 social sciences Professional development 050301 education Correction Problem-Based Learning Faculty 030104 developmental biology Problem-based learning Active learning Faculty development business 0503 education Goals |
| Zdroj: | CBE Life Sciences Education |
| ISSN: | 1931-7913 |
| Popis: | Many efforts to improve science teaching in higher education focus on a few faculty members at an institution at a time, with limited published evidence on attempts to engage faculty across entire departments. We created a long-term, department-wide collaborative professional development program, Biology Faculty Explorations in Scientific Teaching (Biology FEST). Across 3 years of Biology FEST, 89% of the department’s faculty completed a weeklong scientific teaching institute, and 83% of eligible instructors participated in additional semester-long follow-up programs. A semester after institute completion, the majority of Biology FEST alumni reported adding active learning to their courses. These instructor self-reports were corroborated by audio analysis of classroom noise and surveys of students in biology courses on the frequency of active-learning techniques used in classes taught by Biology FEST alumni and nonalumni. Three years after Biology FEST launched, faculty participants overwhelmingly reported that their teaching was positively affected. Unexpectedly, most respondents also believed that they had improved relationships with departmental colleagues and felt a greater sense of belonging to the department. Overall, our results indicate that biology department–wide collaborative efforts to develop scientific teaching skills can indeed attract large numbers of faculty, spark widespread change in teaching practices, and improve departmental relations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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