Grow Your Career: Professional Development

Grow your career: Professional Development

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Teaching Tips for New Faculty
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Teaching Resources
Learning Communities
Learning Communities are an opportunity for colleagues to join energies on matters important to them.

Faculty Professional Development Center
The Center mission is to support faculty in their many forms of scholarship and professional work. This includes, but is not limited to, teaching, research and creative activity, and service.

Jig-Saws
Jig-saws are activites designed to foster cooperative learning mastery of material. Students work in groups, then come together to share what they learn with other groups.

Knowledge Survey
Instead of a pre/post test of content, a knowledge survey is a learner rated tool of learning.

Workshops, Events and Opportunties

FPDC Events

Professional Development Resources
Curriculum Services
Curriculum is a chief asset of the university, one that helps define our institution's unique character. Because curriculum remains healthy through change, it maintains the value of programs for our students.Curriculum development and maintenance is the responsibility of faculty. Curriculum Services is responsible for analyzing, facilitating and monitoring proposed changes and the implementation of those changes as approved by governing bodies.

Faculty Senate
The Faculty Senate is the faculty governing body for Kent State University. It is primarily concerned with matters of university educational policies, curriculum, academic and professional standards, and the establishment, discontinuance and major alteration of academic programs. The senate also possesses shared responsibilities and advisory responsibilities. In addition, the Faculty Senate may consider other matters pertaining to the welfare and mission of the university.

Human Resource Development
A commitment to learning is expected of all employees at Kent State University. This page is designed to help you find learning solutions that meet your needs. The university provides a wide variety of opportunities to increase your knowledge and skills. There is something for everyone ... from new employees to experienced university personnel.

Information Services
The Division of Information Services is dedicated to providing an empowering systems and technological environment that enables Kent State University to meet the competitive challenges of the future. The people in Information Services are committed to providing students, faculty and staff with leadership and support to effectively use information technology to transform and improve the quality of teaching, learning and research.

Libraries and Media Services
Libraries and Media Services, a member of the prestigious Association of Research Libraries, stands at the heart of Kent State University's education and research mission. It provides critical support for scholarly inquiry, bringing together diverse traditions of thought and belief.

Ohio Learns
OhioLearns! is the one stop site for anyone interested in college level distance or e-learning in Ohio.

Reappointment/Tenure/Promotion
The fpdc offers a variety of resources for faculty going through either the reappointment, tenure or promotion process. Support is offered through workshops, consultations, and resource materials available in the fpdc studio.

Research Center for Educational Technology
The Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET) was founded in 1999 to provide a collegial network for university researchers and K-16 educators committed to studying the impact of technology on teaching and learning. RCET offices are located in northeast Ohio on the campus of Kent State University in the Moulton Hall Learning Technologies Center.

Scholar-Link
A site that is totally devoted to connecting scholars with international interests, experience, and skills.

TeachU
The Ohio Learning Network's TeachU Online Seminars is a series of free, hour-long interactive Web presentations on uses of emerging technologies and pedagogies within the contexts of teaching, assessment, and student success. Each seminar is delivered live using online audio and video/image presentation technology, allowing you to interact with the presenter(s) and your colleagues through your web browser.

University Research Council
The URC promotes undergraduate student participation in research activities. Students are not just washing the dishes and cleaning the labs. They are steeped in the process, working with their professors to contribute to their discipline’s body of knowledge.

University Teaching Council
To support and facilitate the teaching mission of the university by studying and recommending policies regarding enrichment and enhancement of the scholarship of teaching; recommending priorities for support of teaching and curriculum development; recommending teaching development awards; collecting information on teaching and curriculum development; and publicizing teaching and curriculum development of the university.
Scholarship by Kent State University faculty places Kent State at the cutting edge of many disciplines and brings wide recognition as the university furthers the fulfillment of societal goals. Below is a listing of resources that support scholarship and faculty development.