Reinventing Peer Development
Published on Dec 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
LEAD BY EXAMPLE
- Support early career faculty & their professional development
- Advise, coach, & guide them
- Be an active member in the recruitment & retention of highly qualified faculty
- Answer questions, provide feedback, & share stories (inspiration)
- Make new connections & friendships
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E-MENTORING
- Utilize email & web tools to support colleagues
- The smallest gesture can make the biggest difference
- Team-up to test tools before introducing them to students
- Recommend useful tools to meet learning objectives
- Consider online office-hours or team meetings
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THE PROCESS IN ACTION
- Discipline specific social event to meet one another
- "Speed-greeting"- 20 seconds to introduce yourself
- Game hour: play multiplayer games in teams
- Appetizers & storytelling + lunch check-in sign up
- Show & Tell: introduce 3 colleagues
Lunch check-in: sign up for at least 1 of 4 scheduled lunches throughout the semester.
Show & Tell: introduce 3 colleagues + interesting (new) fact about each.
Show & Tell: introduce 3 colleagues + interesting (new) fact about each.
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PROFESSOR DAISY DANIELS
NEWLY HIRED IN THE ENGLISH DEPT.
As a new professor, Daisy has lots of questions and is unfamiliar with the area. She is worried about teaching multiple classes and how she will establish herself in the community.
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PROFESSOR MEGAN BEHR
FACULTY MEMBER IN ENGLISH DEPT. FOR 6 YEARS
Megan remembers how daunting it was to be a new faculty member and enjoys meeting new colleagues to help them get familiar with the campus.
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During the English social, Megan & Daisy connect over their common birth state & love of poetry
They were both born in Michigan.
Poets they both enjoy include: Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, & Robert Frost.
Megan reassured Daisy that the University had great resources for New Faculty & that she would be happy to meet and discuss any further concerns.
Poets they both enjoy include: Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, & Robert Frost.
Megan reassured Daisy that the University had great resources for New Faculty & that she would be happy to meet and discuss any further concerns.
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They agree to stay in touch via email & Google Hangout.
They hope to co-advise poetry club.
Daisy was relieved to know she was not alone.
She was especially excited to get involved with the poetry club.
She was especially excited to get involved with the poetry club.
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Megan also introduces Daisy to Allison, Brad, & Zara who were hired
1 year ago.
The group decides to go to dinner during Winter break.
Daisy's fears were quickly out to rest when then the group shared stories from their first years of teaching.
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By the end of the semester, Allison, Daisy, & Megan are organizing a semester-long travel abroad course to Greece to study Greek literature.
Through the encouragement of the group and support of the English department, they are able to organize a new study abroad program for the upcoming school year.
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In the end Daisy was able to successful transition into her professorship with the support of her colleagues & new friends.
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