Transcript Inventive faculty development

Inventive Faculty Development
Jerry Buk
University of Nevada
Cooperative Extension
Background
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Degrees in Animal Science and Agronomy
County Agent NE & WY, 20 years
Area Director UNCE, 8 years
Project Director Nevada EIRP, 5 years
Began Extension career focused on range and
cows. Found a position in the Nebraska Sandhills
where there were lots of both.
Learning complete - time to teach.
Job / Skills mismatch
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Subject matter- Not just cows and Range?
Needs assessment – Comprehensive County or Area wide
Research strategies- Qualitative Data?
Teaching strategies – Youth and Adult, learning environment
Impact assessments
Organizations –(County Govt. University, USDA, service)
Administration –(Budgets, HR, Policies and procedures)
Process (Facilitation, Strategic planning, How to think)
IT (web ct, smart learning centers, CV)
Time Management
Stress Management
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Old Indian expression:
"When you're ready to learn,
your teacher will come."
Common Professional Development
methods
Seminars/Symposiums/Workshops
• Usually 1 hour - 5 days
• Often “canned” programs offered by on
staff expert or training firm.
• “Chalk-n-Talk”
• Old attendee comment…”If I take home
one good idea it was worth it.”
– With that expectation it’s hard to be
disappointed
Assumptions
(Knowles 1984)
• Up until very recently, the pedagogical model has been
applied equally to the teaching of children and adults.
• Children and adults are different
• As adults mature, they become increasingly independent
and responsible for their own actions.
• Adults are often motivated to learn by a sincere desire to
solve immediate problems.
• Adults generally need to be self-directing.
Characteristics of “inventive”
professional development.
My opinion:
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Efficient use of time
Limited travel
Fits my schedule
Allows use of my preferred learning styles
Meets my specific learning or skill needs
Allows me to measure mastery of topic
Provides access to continued development
Examples of Coop Extension PD
• National Extension Leadership
Development (NELD)
– a two-year leadership experience for Extension
personnel in mid-level management with potential for
higher administrative leadership. Cooperative
Extension directors and administrators from
throughout the Land Grant system recommend
personnel for enrollment in this leadership
development experience. Former NELD interns
assume greater leadership opportunities as a result of
this process.
e-development
• One-on-One Mentoring: Academic Career E-Mentoring
• New in 2003, the MentorNet Academic Career E-Mentoring Program
is designed to provide information, encouragement, and support to
women graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty who are
considering or pursuing faculty careers. Protégés are matched in
one-on-one e-mentoring relationships with tenured faculty
members. MentorNet provides the training, coaching and support
for an 8-month mentoring relationship.
• http://www.mentornet.net/documents/about/programs
/academic.aspx
Working effectively with
Native Americans
All teaching, activities & hosting by Indians
History
Values
Ways
Perceptions of white America
“We danced, sang, ate, played games and
listened to each other”
Web Training
https://www.citiprogram.org
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The UNR OHRP maintains a subscription to the web-based “CITI Course in the Protection of
Human Research Subjects” sponsored by the Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) and the
University of Miami. Please go to http://www.citiprogram.org/ to register for the Basic Course
• CITI Course in The Protection of Human Research Subjects
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Jerry Buk, University of Nevada, Reno
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Webinars
• A web-based presentation. Participants
can log in from anywhere. You need only a
computer with internet access, a phone
line and money, paid in advance.
• You select the subject that interests you
What worked for You?
Professional
Improvement
Experience
• Inventive (unique)
• Effective -
I need a few more details
So tell me…
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Occupation
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Classroom teacher
Extension teacher
Researcher
Administrator
Support staff
B. Experience
1. 0-2 yrs
2. 3-5 yrs
3. 6-8 yrs
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9-11 yrs
12-14 yrs
15-17 yrs
18+ yrs
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participation in PD:
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Limited PD opportunities
Limited Funding
Limited Time
No need
No reward
Quality of past experiences
Other (write on back)
D. Do you have a PD plan?
1. Yes
2. no
E. In my case Professional Development is :
1. Low priority
2. Key to growth and promotion
3. Job survival (just keeping up with change )
F. I am most likely to participate in
PD when it is : (Mark all that
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Internet based
Free or low cost
For credit or certification
Face-to-face
Offered at a “cool” place
Long term (In depth two or more days)
Short term ( one day or less)
Other (Leave blank and write on other side)
Other questions?
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One good idea
Applies
Qualitative /Quantitative
Useful contacts
Impact on students
funded
Your best example of inventive
Professional development
• Each write and Share experiences
• Select one or two to report to group
Who should recieve this
information?
Thank You
Traditional Faculty Development
Xavier examples
• FACULTY DEVELOPMENT LEAVES: : Available to Principal
Faculty with a minimum of three years in the tenure-track
position. (Tenure-track faculty may apply in the fall of their third
tenure-track year.) These grants may be at full salary for one
semester or at one-half salary for two semesters.
• SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS: These are intended primarily, but not
exclusively, for junior faculty members with a minimum of two years
in the tenure-track position. (Principal faculty may apply in the fall
of their second tenure-track year.) The amount of the stipend will
be announced at the beginning of the academic year. For summer
2005, the stipend is $4,000. The faculty member may teach one
course or workshop during the summer of the award.
Sabbaticals
• Sabbatical leave is a privilege that is intended to
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clearly benefit both the college and the
employee. Usually Presidents grant this leave to
employees.
Leave is usually granted for the purpose of
personal and/or professional improvement,
which will in turn benefit the college, through
activities such as formal and informal study,
acquisition of new skills, or keeping abreast of
new technologies, research, and community
service.
Assumptions… (Knowles, 1984).
• Up until very recently, the pedagogical model has been
applied equally to the teaching of children and adults,
and in a sense, is a contradiction in terms. The reason is
that as adults mature, they become increasingly
independent and responsible for their own actions. They
are often motivated to learn by a sincere desire to solve
immediate problems in their lives. Additionally, they have
an increasing need to be self-directing. In many ways
the pedagogical model does not account for such
developmental changes on the part of adults, and thus
produces tension, resentment, and resistance in
individuals.
Professionals
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LD,PP,EA seeking CA
Learning deprived, professionally
pooped, extension administrator,
seeking career arousal
Old Extension Agent Expression:
“Just because your ready to teach doesn’t mean the
learner will come”
Our job is to bring practical, useful, research supported knowledge
directly to people who will use it ”