PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SURVEY RESULTS2008-09

OVERVIEW OF SURVEY

In October, full time and adjunct faculty were invited (via email link) to fill out the “Five Minute Professional Development Survey”

Three categories of questions Satisfaction with recent previous professional

development experiences

Priorities for future professional development

Library/learning resource desires

RETURN RATE

Emails were sent to ninety-five faculty

Thirty-two full time

Sixty-three adjunct

Twenty-four surveys were returned (25% return rate)

Eleven full time faculty (34%)

Thirteen adjunct faculty (21%)

SATISFACTION WITH PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

Attended Didn't Attend

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18

Spring 08Fall 09Off Campus

SPRING 08 IN-SERVICE

Student S

uccess

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Advisement

Effective

Teaching

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OFF-CAMPUS

ATU Assessm

ent

Dr. Rousch

(UACCB)

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y Asse

ssment

AATYC

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1

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Clown School

Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference

ASU: Teaching that Promotes Learning

HIM and MT Annual Convention

RECOMMENDED PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED ACTIVITIES

How to Deal With Difficult People (not reported as activity attended)

ASU: Teaching that Promotes Learning

All

PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

WITH NUMBER OF RESPONSES

Improving instructional skills (14)

Classroom assessment (12)

How to motivate students to use campus resources (TRiO, SSC, Career Pathways, etc.) (11)

Learning styles, multiple intelligences (10)

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2

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PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

5. Student retention and completion strategies

High school and community outreach

Teaching learning skills to students (note-taking, study and test-taking skills) (8)

6. Communication in the workplace (7)

7. Effective use of technology in the classroom (6)

PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

8. Interdisciplinary teaching

Stress management

Student advisement

Leadership/team-building (4)

9. Meeting needs of students with disabilities

Using technology for grading (Scantron, online grade books)

Conflict resolution (3)

OTHER SUGGESTIONS

Time management

Setting priorities

Comparing high school student writing with college student writing

Student attendance policies; transition from high school to college r/t attendance; instructor uniformity re: attendance policies

PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

10. Work-experience, work-based education

Ethnic and cultural diversity (2)

11. Classroom management (1)

LEARNING RESOURCE AND LIBRARY DESIRES

Books

Journ

als an

d Mag

azines

E-books

Videos, DVDs

CD-ROMs

Web Li

cense

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LEARNING RESOURCE AND LIBRARY DESIRES

Specific Requests ACM journals

NSTA publications for science faculty

English journal, Forbes, Newsweek, Time

Science-related DVDs, videos

Sentence and paragraph practice on computer (Web licensed site)

QUESTIONS?

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Alison DeLong

Joanna Fulbright

David Mitchell

Tracie Morris

Katie Wilson