Promoting professional growth and instructional change with the higher education faculty development program model
International Journal of Development Research
Promoting professional growth and instructional change with the higher education faculty development program model
Received 16th November, 2017; Received in revised form 20th December, 2017; Accepted 23rd January, 2018; Published online 28th February, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Lias, Allen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
An effective professional development program can have a profound impact on how higher education faculties teach and what their students learn. Building on survey responses by faculty at eighteen colleges and universities that have participated in professional development activities, a faculty development model that includes fourteen characteristics that are organized into four quadrants was created to assist instructors and administrators in higher education institutions to develop programs that aim to meet the teaching and learning needs of the faculty.
