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Introduction: Thinking, Writing and Talking about Staff and Educational Development |
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THE CASE STUDIES |
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Section 1: Working Directly with Teachers |
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1. Yes, But Can You Prove It? |
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Proving the effectiveness of one-on-one consultations |
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2. Professional Development in Retreat |
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Using a retreat to work on developing skills in academic writing |
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Involving staff of a new department in curriculum development |
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4. Are Teachers Really Researchers? |
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Encouraging staff to use action research on their own teaching |
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5. And the Right Answer Is... |
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Using experiential learning to alert staff to technical issues in assessment |
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Section 2: Unusual Sources of Staff and Educational Development |
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6. The Proof of the Pudding... |
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Gaining acceptance of faculty-based student support |
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Acting as an informal mentor |
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Translating an institutional directive for external audit into a development process |
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Using online material developed for other purposes as a resource for staff development |
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Section 3: Driving Change in Faculties and Institutions |
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Robyn Lines and Peter Muir |
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Using collaborative action learning for curriculum development |
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Encouraging staff to engage in inter-professional teaching and learning |
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Making academics feel more valued as teachers |
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Promoting transformation and change through a student retention project |
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14. Standing Out in a Big Crowd |
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Making a university distinctive and implementing a top-down initiative |
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Setting up a new development unit |
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16. We're Not Laughing Now Sylvia Huntley-Moore and |
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Introducing staff and educational development to a traditional university |
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Section 4: Working Nationally |
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Making accreditation of university teachers national policy and practice |
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Implementing a national system of staff development for university teachers |
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Section 5: Becoming a Developer |
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19. Ways to Make Things Better - One, Two, Three! |
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Tracing the career of a developer from teacher, to quality unit to national project |
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Conclusion: Insights from the Case Studies |
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Further Reading |
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Index |
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