A Model for an Intensive Hands-On Faculty Development Workshop To Foster Change in Laboratory Teaching.

ABSTRACT: Faculty development workshops are frequently used to bring about change in faculty teaching. Yet, the characteristics of successful faculty professional development in the context of laboratory teaching are unclear. In this Perspective, we describe our approach to intensive hands-on faculty development workshops for fostering change in laboratory teaching and present evidence for the effectiveness of the approach. The outcomes from our workshops and feedback from past participants support the following recommendations: 1) faculty should attend workshops in teams from their institutions, 2) workshops should allow participants to develop curricula that can be implemented with relatively little additional work after the workshop, 3) workshops should allow faculty time to "work" on tangible pr

SUBMITTER: Beck CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853778 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature