The FDC offers a wide range
of services that includes:
- Adjunct Faculty Support
- Consultation on Designing Learning Environments
- Consultation on Purchase and Effective use of Instructional
Technologies
- Faculty Classroom Observation
- Maintain Course Web sites for Faculty
- Graphics Design
Services (Office hours: 9-11 a.m.)
- Weekly Workshops
- One-On-One Consultation for Faculty
- Instructional Software support
- Student Support
- Teaching and Learning Improvement Support
- Teaching, Learning, and Technology Assessment
- Technology Training & Support (Office hours: 9-11
a.m. and 1-3 p.m.)
- Videoconferences on topics of Interest to Faculty
Technology:
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Workshops
- Summer Instructional Technology Academy
- Individual consultation and support
- Campus survey of technology use by faculty
- Faculty technology showcase
- Advisory consultation to campus committees on the use
of technology
- Consultation to departments and programs interested
in distance learning
Diversity Support Issues
In this program, the Center collaborates with interested
faculty members in organizing workshops and brown
bag seminars on issues related to student or faculty diversity.
Consultation on Facility and Systems Design
FDC staff will assists colleges and departments in space
design, purchasing, budgeting, and managing of construction
projects of smart technology classrooms and training facility.
These include, equipment/systems, sound reinforcement, video/data
display, lighting control, transmission, and media retrieval
systems. We consider the effective planning, design, and
selection of appropriate technologies essential increating
a condusive learning environment and in improving the teaching
and learning process.
Faculty Classroom Observation
At the Faculty Development Center, we realize teaching is
a complex act; there’s a lot more to it than what goes
on in the classroom. That’s why we’re committed
to helping faculty improve the entire teaching process,
from designing courses to implementing them (with or without
technology) to evaluating them.
To meet the needs of many faculty members who are interested
in receiving feedback about their performance in the classroom,
the FDC introduced a new service designed to help them get
that feedback. But it not designed to certify teachers,
or provide information to aid tenure and promotion decisions.
It is designed to give faculty information to help them
decide what’s working (and what’s not ) in their
classrooms.
Our intent is to help faculty members improve their classes
by providing student, peer, and consultant feedback. We
understand that in opening their classrooms to others, professors
are extending their trust. That trust should not be violated.
Therefore:
The FDC will protects professors’ right to privacy
by:
- Retaining no records pertaining to a class evaluation
beyond noting that a faculty member has participated in
the program. In those cases where records are temporarily
retained by the FDC, we will provide faculty members with
the original and all copies of evaluation data after the
feedback has been delivered.
- Refusing to share data with the anyone for the purpose
of aiding retention, promotion, and tenure (RTP) decisions
regarding CSUF faculty members. However, professors will
receive a certificate noting their participation in the
program along with the right to reproduce that certificate.
The FDC will also protect students’ right to privacy:
- In those cases where student feedback is delivered to
instructors during the semester, the FDC will deliver
summary information rather than raw data.
- We will retype all student-written comments and make
reasonable attempts to remove all information by which
individual students might be identified from those written
comments
- By releasing raw data to the professor only after the
term is completed and final grades are posted.
Consultation on Instructional Equipment
The FDC staff advises individual faculty and departments
on media selection and purchasing of instructional technology
equipment. Also the FDC staff provides information and instruction
on the best use of existing lecture facilities, and conducts
orientations on equipment use.
Teacher/Scholar in Residence Program
This program is designed to honor and promote teaching excellence
among tenured, mid-career, and senior faculty. The Teacher/Scholar
in Residence Program (TSR) is based on the premise that
teaching excellence is a necessity in the development of
an effective learning environment. The program is designed
to provide support and a context that will permit faculty
to share their expertise and enrich their experience with
each other, and at the same time provide an avenue to recognize
and reward excellence in the classroom. Teacher/Scholars
will have the opportunity to deepen and extend their expertise
in teaching and in instructional technology in collaboration
with a supportive group of equally committed colleagues.
During their tenure as Teacher/Scholars, selected faculty
will share their training and experience with colleagues
in their school and on campus. Approximately 7-10 faculty
with representation from all schools will be selected every
2 years.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Advise Deans, Chairs, the FDC and VPAA on issues related
to supporting teaching effectiveness.
- Consult and work with the Dean on issues and programs
to support faculty and teaching in the School.
- Participate in monthly meetings/workshops and other
sessions for Teacher/Scholars.
- Be available to be contacted by other faculty for guidance
and consultation, present workshops, and/or be willing
to provide planned/scheduled access to their classroom
for other faculty.
- Serve for 2 years.
Rewards
- Honorific campus recognition as a CSUF Teacher/Scholar
in Residence.
- Enhanced opportunities for personal and professional
development in teaching and/or technology.
- Receive $300 a year for conference travel and/or supplies
related to teaching and/or technology activities.
- Opportunity to positively impact new faculty members.
- Priority technology support from the FDC tech staff.
- $2,000 stipend for the duration of the program ($1000
per year).
The Nomination Process
- Teacher/Scholars in Residence must be full-time and
tenured and may be nominated by any faculty or Deans,
- Include a brief statement (no more than 200 words) of
the nominee’s record of excellence in teaching and
should be submitted to the nominee’s Dean.
Nominated candidates will be required to send in:
- A completed nomination form, including a statement from
the faculty member expressing interest and reason for
wanting to participate in the program.
- A brief statement of teaching philosophy, including
if pertinent, evidence of proficiency in the interactive
use of instructional technologies.
