Importance of FDP for Management Faculties
It has been long believed that the most important resource that any institution of higher education has is its faculty members who teach knowledge and skills to students. However, during the first half of the last century, it was assumed that a competent basic scientist or clinical professional would naturally be an effective teacher. Even most medical schools recruited faculty members more for their content knowledge and clinical skills rather than for their educational skills, then after that we find faculty members sometimes being criticized for shortcomings in their teaching performances.
Medical school faculty members are currently faced with increasing demands to be creative and effective teachers, successful investigators, and productive clinicians. These pressures have been derived from contemporary curriculum development, competition in the health care institutions, and from the limited resources for research. One study emphasized that such changes entailed faculty members to attain new knowledge, diverse skills, and abilities in many aspects including:
Managing multiple roles and new responsibilities: Like clinic instruction, micro-group teaching, problem-based tutorials, case-based discussions, become mentors, and develop and evaluate new curricula
Integrating technology into teaching, learning, and research and master new computer-based educational programs
Leadership and management proficiency.
Reasons why you should organize a faculty development program
Begin with a clear vision. Almost every authority on leadership will mention the importance of creating a mental picture of your ideal future (i.e., a vision). As a starting point identify your core values. What ideals are most important to you and your institution? How do you see your role as a faculty developer (e.g., mentor, encourager, change agent, etc.)? What do you want faculty development to look and feel like on your campus? Gather input from center staff as well as your constituents. Incorporate these ideas into a brief, descriptive statement. This vision can then serve as a guide for future decisions and actions. (Note: Be sure to check for alignment with your institution’s mission.)
Maintain the right perspective. In my session at the recent Teaching Professor Conference, I included a cell phone survey regarding effective faculty development. The most-missed survey question revealed that many faculty developers participating in the workshop viewed faculty development from a remedial perspective. This is a less than effective stance. Faculty who take advantage of professional development activities must not be seen as deficient. Rather than approaching faculty development as a way to “fix” designated faculty, recognize its potential to boost the instructional vitality of all faculty. When you see learning to teach as a lifelong process involving continual improvement, you are less inclined to take a remedial view of faculty development. The right perspective is one that is grounded in growth; it focuses on improving student learning, serves all campus faculty, and includes a variety of programs and services. No one group or type of individual is singled out.
Network. A major dimension of providing meaningful faculty development rests on having effective campus relationships. Opportunities to cultivate relationships exist in multiple forms. As faculty developers, you can extend your network by attending campus events, even those in which you are initially uninterested. At these receptions, presentations, and meetings, listen to what is on the minds of faculty. Additionally, networking provides the ideal opportunity to partner with other campus offices and services. By working with other campus units, such as disability support, student services, and veteran affairs, you will be able to provide programming that connects faculty to other valuable campus resources.
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By
Nidhi Batra
It has been long believed that the most important resource that any institution of higher education has is its faculty members who teach knowledge and skills to students. However, during the first half of the last century, it was assumed that a competent basic scientist or clinical professional would naturally be an effective teacher. Even most medical schools recruited faculty members more for their content knowledge and clinical skills rather than for their educational skills, then after that we find faculty members sometimes being criticized for shortcomings in their teaching performances.
Medical school faculty members are currently faced with increasing demands to be creative and effective teachers, successful investigators, and productive clinicians. These pressures have been derived from contemporary curriculum development, competition in the health care institutions, and from the limited resources for research. One study emphasized that such changes entailed faculty members to attain new knowledge, diverse skills, and abilities in many aspects including:
Managing multiple roles and new responsibilities: Like clinic instruction, micro-group teaching, problem-based tutorials, case-based discussions, become mentors, and develop and evaluate new curricula
Integrating technology into teaching, learning, and research and master new computer-based educational programs
Leadership and management proficiency.
Reasons why you should organize a faculty development program
Begin with a clear vision. Almost every authority on leadership will mention the importance of creating a mental picture of your ideal future (i.e., a vision). As a starting point identify your core values. What ideals are most important to you and your institution? How do you see your role as a faculty developer (e.g., mentor, encourager, change agent, etc.)? What do you want faculty development to look and feel like on your campus? Gather input from center staff as well as your constituents. Incorporate these ideas into a brief, descriptive statement. This vision can then serve as a guide for future decisions and actions. (Note: Be sure to check for alignment with your institution’s mission.)
Maintain the right perspective. In my session at the recent Teaching Professor Conference, I included a cell phone survey regarding effective faculty development. The most-missed survey question revealed that many faculty developers participating in the workshop viewed faculty development from a remedial perspective. This is a less than effective stance. Faculty who take advantage of professional development activities must not be seen as deficient. Rather than approaching faculty development as a way to “fix” designated faculty, recognize its potential to boost the instructional vitality of all faculty. When you see learning to teach as a lifelong process involving continual improvement, you are less inclined to take a remedial view of faculty development. The right perspective is one that is grounded in growth; it focuses on improving student learning, serves all campus faculty, and includes a variety of programs and services. No one group or type of individual is singled out.
Network. A major dimension of providing meaningful faculty development rests on having effective campus relationships. Opportunities to cultivate relationships exist in multiple forms. As faculty developers, you can extend your network by attending campus events, even those in which you are initially uninterested. At these receptions, presentations, and meetings, listen to what is on the minds of faculty. Additionally, networking provides the ideal opportunity to partner with other campus offices and services. By working with other campus units, such as disability support, student services, and veteran affairs, you will be able to provide programming that connects faculty to other valuable campus resources.
Make a List of Sponsors of our FDP Programme.
www.AirCrewsAviation.com
www.Air-Aviator.com
www.AlfaBloggers.com
www.AllAirlineNews.com
www.AllInOneShoppingApps.com
www.Alfa-Books.com
www.AlfaJungleRetreat.co.in
www.AsiaticAir.in
www.AeroSoft.in
www.AnxietyAttak.com
www.A1-Cabs.co.in
www.Flying-Crews.com
www.Portrait-Business-Woman.com
www.BestInternationalEducation.com
www.SatpuraJungleRetreat.com
www.WorldOfAirplane.com
www.Fintech-Start-Up.com
www.GuideByLocal.com
By
Nidhi Batra
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