Faculty Collaboration for Better Teaching: Adult Learning Principles Applied to Teaching Improvement

Revisiting Graduate Student Training to Address Agricultural and Environmental Societal Challenges

“…This approach not only provides a reduced workload for individual faculty (and the potential to further distribute responsibilities by rotating instructors) but will stimulate new collaborations and provide avenues for shared instructor learning that result in improved teaching. Furthermore, experienced instructors can provide teaching mentorship to junior faculty (Davis, 1995; McDaniel, 1987).…”

STEM Faculty as Learners in Pedagogical Reform and the Role of Research Articles as Professional Development Opportunities

“…For example, journal clubs 1 (DaRosa and Simpson, 2012; Pusateri, 2014) and learning communities (McDaniel 1987; Cox, 2001, 2004; Lenning et al. , 2013; Stewart, 2014) are relatively common opportunities offered by teaching and learning centers.…”

“…Those involved in faculty development have long viewed their professional roles as facilitating learning, even applying the term “learner” to faculty members (e.g., Borko, 2004; McDaniel, 1987). Shulman (1986, p. 4) made the idea of faculty as learners clear for K–12 teachers in his seminal article, which examined “knowledge growth in teaching.” Schulman (1986) argued that teachers learn not ony about pedagogy (e.g., how to accomplish active learning or group work) but also learn pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)—the knowledge a teacher learns about teaching in his or her particular discipline (e.g., What are the likely misconceptions?…”

“…What approaches are successful?). Others (e.g., McDaniel, 1987; Gess-Newsome et al. , 2003) have applied Shulman’s ideas to higher education.…”