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A Study of Faculty’s Instructional Development in American Colleges and Universities

Author: WuZhenLi
Tutor: RaoCongMan
School: Northeast Normal University
Course: Comparative Education
Keywords: American University Teacher Teaching Development
CLC: G642.4
Type: PhD thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


Improve the quality of teaching many national higher education are faced with the universal subject, to improve the quality of teaching, one of the most fundamental measure is to promote the development of university teachers teaching. American University teaching development started earlier, relatively mature, more advanced, typical, representative and worth learning. In this study, scientific research and development, the development of teaching, active development, passive development, personal development and organizational development as the basic latitude, mainly from three aspects of the development of content, development status and development of the American university teachers how to achieve the development of teaching \University teaching development is to promote the University Personal Teaching improve, promote student learning and the organization of university teachers teaching improvement for the purpose, the development of teaching content, personal development and organizational development as fundamental and quasi-university teachers and university teachers for the development of the subject of a series of teaching development actors. The Teaching Development is American University Teachers development of the basic and main content, the development of university teachers in the United States refers to the development of teaching. Initiatives with passive development of university teaching-development of the state, the effect of active development is usually much stronger than the passive development. Personal development and organizational development mainly describes the development of university teachers teaching, personal development, the development of university teachers to improve their organizational development refers to the university teachers to develop their own in order to achieve organizational development, unity and mutual support between the two more often. Research is notified to, tend to be the motivating factor, the more obvious the active character of the research and development of university teachers; teaching school-based, tend to be health factors, passive more obvious features of the university teachers teaching development. Research and development are mostly upgrade type development, and teaching the development of multi-copy-development, the possibility of realization of the development of the university teachers teaching than research and development. Is based on the overall state of development, the development of American universities teaching can be divided into calmed phase (1810 to the 1950s), the start-up phase (1960s to mid-1970s), boom phase (late 1970s to 1980s) and scientific stage (since the 1990s). Downs stage, the development of American universities teaching is weak, spontaneous and laissez-faire state, the mode of development is personal development, development is primarily aimed at the development of scientific research. In the start-up phase, the development of teaching in American universities have a more formal and organized to carry out rapid rise mainly to external funding support and passive teaching development has become the focus of development of university teachers. In the boom phase, the American University teaching development across substantive change, not only to the internal funds to support, and has been transformed into active development as the main. American University teaching development is expanding and deepening the scientific stage, and gradually refined and scientific, active development and organizational development, the development of university teachers teaching has been the trend of the whole, to achieve a comprehensive, basic completed institutionalized, approaching a professional, partially approaches disciplines and technology. Prospective universities in the United States the development of teaching the basic system of graduate teaching assistants, graduate teaching development and teacher training programs. The graduate assistant system is one of the most effective measures to promote the development of teachers teaching of university teachers quasi University, the future teacher training programs is a conducive to promote the development of prospective university teachers teaching more visionary graduate education reform. The development of university teachers in the United States, mainly the development of academic (scientific research), teaching development in a weak position. Prospective development of teachers teaching passive development, to take the initiative to develop supplemented, organizational development, supplemented by personal development. American University teaching development mainly focus on solving the problem of how to teach and how to teach better \mainly technical knowledge, the Strategy of knowledge, practical knowledge and operational knowledge. American University teaching development includes both basic, compensatory and prerequisite for eligibility for the development of content, including upgrade eligibility development in the main, the fine show improve and expand the development of content, improve sexual development ranking times, basically belong to the meso-and micro-content, especially the majority of micro-content. The end of 2001, the American University teaching development has more than 66% of the degree of organization, which the university has a center class teaching development organizations accounted for 54% of all American universities, Dr. - research universities teaching development agencies increase more rapidly. American University teaching development common way is: guidance, services, workshops, learning Minna, courses, consulting, round-table talks, teaching awards, teaching evaluation and teaching assistance. With respect to the development of the pre-teaching, more active character of the American University teaching, stronger organizational development characteristics. Self-guiding the development of teaching, the development of practice learning teaching and informal loose cooperative development of teaching university teacher teaching three development ideal way to help to improve the effect of the development of the university teachers teaching. The development of self-guiding teaching emphasis on self-important value of development for university teachers teaching practice study of the development of teaching with emphasis on practice for the value of the basis for the development of university teaching, and the development of cooperative teaching informal loose focus The importance of university teachers teaching groups and each other \

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