Faculty Support/Development Video with Transcript
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Visual Information: A series of images of students engaged in academics and athletics set against the backdrop of Fogler Library and the university mall. The University of Maine Logo and crest that reads “1865” is featured prominently. The title slide reads, “First-Year Student Success.”
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Visual Information: The next slide reads “Faculty Support/Development.”
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Natasha Speer: Our charge is to figure out what are the supports that faculty around campus would need in order to implement strategies to improve student success. So there are lots of things that are known from research on the teaching and learning of of undergraduates, and we’re trying to learn from that research as well as learn what is going on locally on our campus in courses that our first-year students are in and then figure out ways that we can learn from each other and support faculty as well as graduate students who are teaching these classes to implement some things that are known to be effective.
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Visual Information: Natasha Speer: Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
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We also need to figure out what the supports are on campus that are needed, like the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, to help those faculty learn how to do those things. The serve wisdom is that you teach the way you were taught, and so for some faculty who are interested we want to support them changing how they’ve been teaching or how they themselves were taught. I was drawn to this because it’s what I think about all the time anyway and because I wanted to learn more about what is going on on our campus already and figure out ways to strengthen that even further to reach more faculty and graduate students.