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Skogsberg, Erik; Neal, Makena; McDaniels, Melissa; Shellgren, Madeline; Stewart, Patricia – To Improve the Academy, 2021
Many scholars recommend preparing faculty for educator roles. Faculty Learning Communities, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and teaching centers represent common preparatory approaches. But faculty and teaching assistants report time, disciplinary disconnects, and lack of incentives as ongoing barriers. Inspired by K-12's…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Teaching Assistants, College Faculty
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Daniels, Tazin; Bailey, Elizabeth; Cobblah, Anoff Nicholas – To Improve the Academy, 2021
In this article, we describe our experience as a racially and disciplinarily diverse, relatively junior program team who embraced the opportunity to transform a 20-year-old professional development seminar for graduate students into a remote offering in response to COVID-19. Our efforts to support our participants and champion an institutional…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Graduate Students
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Schram, Laura N.; Pinder-Grover, Tershia; Turcic, Stefan, II – To Improve the Academy, 2017
The Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) initiative for graduate students was launched in the United States in 1993 as a partnership between the Council of Graduate Schools and the Association of American Colleges and Universities to prepare graduate students for faculty careers at different institutional types and to provide them with teaching-related…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, College Faculty