Teacher Development in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Existing Programs, Program Impact, and Future Trends
Redaktion: Simon, Eszter; Pleschová, Gabriela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the challenges of creating effective instructional development programs in higher education. Building upon experience from higher education programs around the world and using a variety of research methods, it examines how success is to be understood, how successful current programs are, and what determines program success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136220036
• Artikelnr.: 38246534

Autorenporträt

Eszter Simon is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Szeged and recurring visiting professor at the Economics University in Bratislava. Gabriela Pleschová works as a staff development adviser at the Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. She also teaches at the Department of East Asian Studies at Comenius University in Bratislava.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What We Know and Fail to Know About the Impact of Teacher Development
Gabriela Pleschová and Eszter Simon Part One: Training for What?
Instructional Development for Graduate Students 2. Preparing Doctoral
Students for a Teaching Career: The Case of an International University
with a History of Regional Engagement Joanna Renc-Roe and Tatiana Yarkova
3. Graduate Student Teacher Training Courses, Job Placement, and Teaching
Awards in the United States John Ishiyama, Alexandra Cole, Angela D.
Nichols, Kerstin Hamann and Kimberly Mealy 4. The Impact of Training on
Teacher Effectiveness: Canadian Practices and Policies Christopher Knapper
Part Two: Using Program Assessments to Improve Program Design 5. Mentorship
in Teacher Training: A Preliminary Review of a Professional Development
Programme for Tertiary Teachers in Singapore Huang Hoon Chng and Alan Soong
Swee Kit 6. Combining International Experience with the Local Context:
Designing and Improving Instructional Development in a Post-Soviet Setting
Mari Karm, Marvi Remmik and Anu Haamer 7. Institutional Factors in
Re-Designing an Accredited Continuing Professional Development Course in
Northern Ireland Vicky Davies and Sarah Maguire Part Three: Top-Down
Determinants of Success in Instructional Development Programs 8. The
Emerging European Higher Education Area: Implications for Instructional
Development Kathleen M. Quinlan and Erkki Berndtson 9. Teacher Development
Programmes: National Policies Enabling Local Impact in Ireland Jennifer
Murphy 10. The Influence of the Research Philosophy and Pedagogical
Management Decisions of the University of Helsinki on University Teaching:
A Longitudinal Study Anne Nevgi 11. The Impact of UK University Teaching
Programmes on Lecturers' Assessment Practice: A Case for Pedagogical Action
Research Lin S. Norton, Bill Norton and Lee Shannon Part Four: Theorizing
About Instructional Development 12. How Effects from Teacher Training of
Academic Teachers Propagate into the Meso Level and Beyond Torgny Roxå and
Katarina Mårtensson 13. Instructional Development for University Teachers:
Causes of Impact and Practical Implications Ann Stes and Peter Van Petegem
14. Evaluating the Impact of University Teaching Development Programmes:
Methodologies That Ask Why There Is an Impact Keith Trigwell 15. Creating
Successful Teacher Development Programmes Eszter Simon and Gabriela
Pleschová