Faculty & Staff
Self Governance » Faculty Development Committee
Minutes
6/2/04
Members present were Drs. Michelle Condren, Committee Chair, David Allen, Fakhrul Ahsan, and Mark Haase.
Dr. Suzanne Lindsey was out of town and unable to attend.
Dr. Condren welcomed the introduced the committee and welcomed new members.
The committee reviewed the Bylaws governing the Faculty Development Committee. Discussion regarding 3(a) 2 half day workshops each academic year. The retreat fulfilled this requirement for this year. This committee does not feel the bylaws need any revision at this time with regard to the faculty development committee.
The new proposed classroom response system using the Web Surveyor program was discussed. This is a system that will allow us to poll students in real time during a class. The technology center is currently working to set 8 or 10 different selections rather than just a few choices and are in the process of implementing this response system. This committee needs to follow up with the Center to make sure this is in place to be utilized for the next academic year. In the beginning this will only be available in Room 107. The WebSurveyor program is set up so eventually we will be able to use it in all classrooms. Web Surveyor is set up out of Lubbock and this will allow us to have a class room response system at no additional expense. The utilization of the Web Surveyor for the classroom response system was based on the suggestion that we spend $3000 to $4000 on a response system to poll students during class
Garry Rogers will coordinate training of the use of Websurveyor. This training is not mandatory but will be made available to faculty on all three campuses. This committee's involvement is just to oversee training of faculty. Dr. Mark Haase will be the committee member responsible to follow up on this item.
The next item of business is a workshop on Bloom's Taxonomy and writing learning objectives. This also will be made available to faculty on all three campuses. Patrick King and the technology center will provide this training. The committee has decided that we will have three different dates and times for training session so as to make this as convenient for faculty to attend as possible. Each session should last between 60 to 90 minutes and it will be healthnetted to the other campuses. These training sessions should be complete by mid November. Ideally we would like to have the first session prior to the start of school and the last one held by mid-November. Dr. Ahsan will be the committee members responsible to follow up on this item.
2005 summer/spring retreat was discussed at great length. Discussion regarding the Dean's Charge to the committee about the retreat. It was decided to defer selection of a date until we determine the actual content/topic of the retreat. There was much discussion regarding the Dean's charge about the faculty retreat. It was suggested that we look to the AACP innovations in teaching competition as a place to start recruiting people to come and participate in a retreat on innovations in learning and teaching strategies and objectives. If the winners of the competition are not available we would look to the top three or four contestants, as well as look back to previous competitions.
Much discussion about proposed dates and places. Possibly consider a late winter early spring retreat at a skiing resort. Dr. Condren will prepare a web survey to be send to faculty inquiring about the proposed retreat.
The committee will review the current Texas Tech policy on out of state travel and the AACP innovations in teaching.
We received the ACPE education scholars program modules last year and we have an unlimited site license. Dr. Condren, as faculty development committee chair will become the site administrator for the program. Dr. Condren will resend the e-mail to all faculty explaining the education scholar program and the module process. There are six modules and we would like the faculty to work on the same module at the same time, perhaps giving a time frame for completion of one month. This would allow faculty to work at their own pace and they do not have to complete all six modules, you may pick and choose the modules you wish to participate in. The first module is covered during new faculty orientation. Dr. Condren said that anyone needing further information could visit the program web site. Dr. Condren will conduct a survey to faculty regarding the education scholar program.
The last item of business for the faculty is the propose web site for faculty. This would be a site where faculty can access documents pertinent to faculty governance and education tools. Dr. Suzanne Lindsey will be the committee member responsible for facilitating this project.
The committee also discussed the faculty need to learn the meaning of test statistics and the use of stand error of measure. There is much faculty concern regarding how to use these statistics. Dr. Mark Haase will be the committee member responsible for preparing a document to be made available on the faculty education tools web page. Dr. Haase will contact Dr. Supernaw to refresh and update his knowledge base on this subject.