Stages of faculty development

Perceptions of Faculty of the Impact of Teaching Executives on Personal and Professional Development

“…In explaining the theory of cognitive dissonance, a number of experts in developmental psychology have noted that the presentation of challenging, novel situations often forces individuals to extend themselves beyond their current stage of development to more advanced stages in order to deal with the psychological disequilibrium these events create (Festinger, 1957;Ralph, 1973 ;Schein, 1961 ;Gaff, Festa and Gaff, 1978).…”

Graduate Teaching Assistants' Views on Teaching

“…Existing studies include numerous investigations of teachers beginning their careers in elementary and secondary settings (Veenman, 1984). Other research documents the career stages of university professors (Baldwin & Blackburn, 1981;Blackburn, 1979;Cyntrynbaum, Lee, & Wadner, 1982;Mathis, 1979;Ralph, 1973). Little is known, however, about graduate students as they begin work as teachers.…”

How Do We Get There From Here?: Program Design for Faculty Development

“…Ralph, for instance, explains the professional growth of individual faculty members by reference to a multistage model of increasing intellectual complexity [16]. De Bloois and Adler postulate a series of stages in the evolution of single-campus instructional improvement programs, the first of which resembles the first stage of the model described here [1].…”