Onboarding new faculty to become effective teachers

Successfully Onboarding Faculty

Promoting equity, increased student learning, valid assessment using best practice strategies

What new faculty have said about their onboarding experience with Phyllis:

  • "Thank you so much for helping me transition into academia. You taught me how to engage students in the classroom and use active learning strategies."
  • "I came to this university feeling like a little boy and while I still feel like that at times, you gave me the confidence to be a much better teacher1"
  • "Let me take a moment to acknowledge my deepest gratitude and appreciation for your time and efforts to help foster my growth as a new academician".
  • "I am forever grateful for the knowledge, kindness, generosity and love of learning that you bestowed upon me in such a short time. It was a pleasure just being around you."


Onboarding for new faculty so they can become effective teachers and promote equity their first semester 


This service is especially geared to colleges or universities that do not have enough dedicated staff to help faculty learn to be effective teachers, as a cost-effective way to offer quality faculty development.  It can be offered synchronously remote to institutions around the world.

 

When faculty members use evidence-based pedagogy, they help improve student learning outcomes and promote equity. When most new faculty participate in this  onboarding training, this should be noted on accreditation self-studies. 


Sample 2-day on-boarding 

Day 1 

Using powerful concepts from current learning theories in your teaching 

A practical guide for implementing learning-centered teaching

How instructors can foster student learning, course planning 

How to use content to foster learning especially when there is far too much content to cover

Scaffolding support for difficult content promotes equity


Practices to help all students to succeed 

Making all of what we covered so far real for your program. Concrete action steps, with time for feedback


Day 2 

Student engagement techniques, facilitating small group and entire class discussion 


Assessing students using multiple choice questions


Scaffolding support for high stakes assessment promotes equity


Effective grading techniques: Including rubrics, extra credit, authentic assessments 


A sampling of evidence-based instructional models: Problem-based learning, team-based learning, the flipped classroom, Just-in-Time teaching for face to face, hybrid and teaching online


Implementation and sharing what we designed


The topics can be modified to meet the needs of the faculty and institution.






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