January 15, 2009
A Carnegie Perspectives repost
By Molly Breen
Every year hundreds of thousands of students begin their higher education in community colleges. Of course, these institutions also bring in large numbers of new faculty. For both groups, students and faculty alike, there are plenty of challenges to go around.
Imagine yourself in the shoes of a newly hired instructor [...]
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Carnegie Perspectives, Developing Questions, Faculty Portfolios, Video Evidence |
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January 15, 2009
Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIGs) treat professional development as a collaborative enterprise. One of the most persistent impediments to educational improvement is that teachers have-because institutions provide-so few purposeful, constructive occasions for sharing what they know and do with one another. Thus, one of the most important moves a campus can make is to [...]
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Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG) |
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October 14, 2008
Yu-Chung Chang (Pasadena), “No Longer Lost in Translation: How Yu-Chung Helps Her Students Understand (and Love) Word Problems”
Yu-Chung says:
I started a faculty Inquiry Group (FIG) to investigate why so many math faculty find Intermediate Algebra onerous to teach.
The FIG discovered that…
1. Word problems are hard: Students avoid doing them and teachers struggle with teaching them
2. Too much [...]
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Developing Questions, Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG) |
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