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A multi-level approach to faculty
development
Laura Winer & Jennie Ferris, McGill University
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AGENDA
1. Introduction and context
2. Levels of agency
3. Example projects
4. At your institution
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Session Objectives
Describe our approach to analyzing, prioritizingand communicating our unit’s work.
Provide examples of how we support teaching
at all levels of our University. Encourage you to consider if such an approach
would be useful at your institution.
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Why levels?
It used to be,
“What do you do?”
Now, it’s
“What difference do you make?”
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POLL
What information are you required to reportannually? (Check all that apply.)
1) Number of events.2) Number of attendees at events.
3) Feedback/comments from attendees.
4) Impact of activities.
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We used to report annually:
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AGENDA
1. Introduction and context
2. Levels of agency
3. Example projects
4. At your institution
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Agency is focused on actions or interventions with theexplicit intention of producing a particular effect.
Why levels of agency? Systemic approach to supporting teaching
All levels must align for sustainable change.
Alone, the instructor can only go so far.
Why agency?
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Educational developers:
Change agents for teaching
Work as agents for ins t ructors and students .
Act strategical ly as agents of change.
Develop a mult i -level app roach .
Link to inst i tut ional vis ion and strategic documents.
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Student
learning
Levels of Agency
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Levels of Agency - Definitions
MICRO – limited impact
MESO – local impact
MACRO – institution-wide impact
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AGENDA
1. Introduction and context
2. Levels of agency
3. Example projects
4. At your institution
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Goals x Projects x Levels Goals
Enhancing Student Engagement
Recognizing and Rewarding Teaching
Graduate Education Initiatives
Course Design & Teaching
ProjectsTeaching and Learning Spaces
Student Response Systems
Teaching Research Nexus
Teaching Portfolio
Course Evaluations
Teaching Awards
Admin and Working groups
Workshops
Consultations
Levels of Impact
Institution (Macro)
Department and Programs (Meso)
Individual Instructors and Graduate Students (Micro)
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Selected examples of activities at eachlevel
Goals Projects
Recognizingand
Rewarding
Teaching
Teaching Portfolio
- Revise Teaching Portfolio Policy
- Teaching Portfolio workshops
Course Evaluations
- course evaluation advisory group
- Policy Implementation
- Develop guidelines for interpretation (chairs and committees)
- Develop guidelines for interpretation (professors)
Teaching Awards
Administer Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Develop guidelines for McGill University Lifetime Achievement for Leadership in Learning
Steward nominations for external teaching awards
Levels of Impact
Institution (Macro)
Department and Programs (Meso)
Individual Instructors and Graduate Students (Micro)
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Goals Projects
McGill Nexus
Project
Inquiry Network
- View from instructors – for Provost
- Ambassadors for their departments
- Integrate into own course
Documentary
- Recruitment of new students
- Chairs’ retreat
- New administrators’ orientation
- New faculty orientation
Website
- Teaching made public
- New Faculty orientation
- Tool for instructor reflection
Symposia
- Senior administrator awareness
- Academic administrator awareness
- Instructor awareness
Reward System
Policy and procedures to reward contributions
Merit survey with chairs
Levels of Impact
Institution (Macro)
Department and Programs (Meso)
Individual Instructors and Graduate Students (Micro)
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POLL: At your institution
What is an example project or practice fromone of these levels of agency at your
institution?
Type in the level and a short project
name/description on the backchannel
feature
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How do we use this framework?
Analyze: Are we addressing each levelwithin each goal?
Prioritize: Where do we need to put moreenergy?
Communicate: How are we working withinthe different levels?
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What has the impact been?
2005: 5 FTE
2010: 13.5 FTE + 4 students
2014: 15 FTE + 12 students
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AGENDA
1. Introduction and context
2. Levels of agency
3. Example projects
4. At your institution
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POLL
Do you think that the levels of agencyframework would be useful for you?
YesNo
Not sure
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