Helping New Faculty Get Off To A Good Start

摘要: College teaching may be the only skilled profession that does not routinely provide training to its novice practitioners. New faculty members at most universities have traditionally had learn by themselves how plan research projects, identify and cultivate funding sources, write proposals get them funded, attract supervise graduate students, present their results in an effective manner. They also teach devise stimulating lectures rigorous but fair assignments tests, motivate students want make active participants learning process, help develop critical problem-solving, communication, teamwork skills. Perhaps hardest of all, they figure out balance competing time demands teaching, research, other professional personal responsibilities. Learning all these things trial error usually takes years. Some new eventually them; many others never do either fail earn tenure or spend careers as unproductive researchers and/or ineffective teachers.