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Preparing the Future STEM Faculty: Program Overviews
The goals of the Certification in College Teaching program:
(Program notation on transcript upon completion)
• Provide a mechanism to encourage reflexive thinking about teaching experiences and the linked processes of teaching and learning.
• Improve the teaching skills of graduate students in order to improve undergraduate education.
• Enhance the professional development of graduate students and better socialize and prepare them for academe.
• Foster an atmosphere that supports critical discussions about teaching and learning at Michigan State University.
• Cultivate relationships amongst faculty and graduate students who share pedagogical interests.
• Familiarize graduate students and faculty with the learning and teaching resources at MSU.
Key Program Components:
Demonstration of competency (coursework, practice, workshops) in:
• Adult students as learners
• Disciplinary related teaching strategies
• Assessment of Learning
• Technology in the Classroom
• Understanding the Academy
Participation in a mentored teaching experience.
Compilation of a teaching portfolio.
Evaluation and Outcomes:
The time investment of students who participate varies depending on their experience level as teaching assistants, the type of mentored teaching experience, and the extensiveness of the teaching portfolio.
Data Collected to Date:
- Proposal for mentored teaching experience
- Teaching portfolio
- Self-report accomplishments
- Teaching philosophy
- Curricular materials
- Faculty observations
- Student evaluations
Results:
- Data based on small sample sizes.
- Data for individuals evaluated by program coordinator.
- Mentored teaching experiences varied
- from straightforward teaching investigations
- to planning, implementing, and evaluating applications of learning theory.
- Teaching portfolios varied, few were exemplary in each category.
Possible Directions for Future
- Develop and model a cohesive, integrated curriculum in "Teaching College Science" course.
- Establish criteria for mentoring and provide faculty professional development.
- Assess change in graduate student teaching over time - with both direct (observational data) and indirect data.
- Fully integrate teaching throughout the certification program and the graduate student's academic program.
Implementation :
Factors to consider:
Will this work as a centralized program or decentralized program?Who monitors quality control?
At Michigan State University , the core program components are required by the Graduate School (if units wish to have transcript notations) with considerable flexibility for decentralized approaches appropriate to each discipline. The Graduate School recommends students for the transcript notation upon receipt of a completed portfolio.
Resources: faculty willing to participate in the mentored teaching experience!