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Using Peer Coaching, Learning Communities and Mentoring to Develop Faculty Partnerships
Type of Presentation
Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Research will be presented focusing on faculty members’ use of peer coaching, learning communities and mentoring as techniques to partner with others in order to meet their professional development objectives.
Target Audience
Target audience members may include: Higher education faculty members interested in sharing their successes and challenges of utilizing peer coaching, learning communities and mentoring as methods to develop partnerships with other faculty members. Higher education administrators and continuing education professionals who want to discuss ideas of incorporating these techniques to help create institutional environments that encourages faculty professional development as well as partnerships among them. Session participants will be asked to share their success and their challenges in using these techniques.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will gain greater understandings of peer coaching, learning communities and mentoring and how these techniques are used in higher education as methods to further establish faculty partnerships and to help faculty accomplish professional development objectives. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their successes, challenges, or for some participants the lack of opportunities to use these techniques in their professional development. Through sharing personal experiences, participants will benefit from discussing how peers have incorporated these techniques into professional development and partnership building with other faculty members and professional colleagues, informing their future planning of faculty development opportunities.
Session Description
Faculty members struggle to find development opportunities that meet their individual needs. To help meet these challenges, emerging types of faculty development techniques, peer coaching, learning communities, and formal and informal mentoring, are a means to encourage faculty to critically reflect upon their practices as teachers and researchers while engaging with other faculty member to share knowledge. Furthermore, many institutions of higher education are adopting these faculty development strategies, demonstrating that they are beneficial to the institutions while meeting individual faculty development needs. Peer coaching, learning communities, and mentoring are encouraged and incorporated into higher education institutions in order to develop stronger and more collaborative partnerships. In addition, these techniques can also be used to create an environment that encourages faculty members to partner with each other as well as staff, administration and the community.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Wednesday November 6
Primary Presenter
Kathryn McAtee, PhD, Cuyahoga Community College
Work Title
Professor
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Dr. Catherine A Hansman, Cleveland State University
Work Title
Professor