Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2009

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2009) 27

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0027.025

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Our teaching and learning center serves faculty and graduate students as teachers and undergraduates as learners. Here we share the experiences of graduate student facilitators whom we trained to lead problem-solving skills workshops for undergraduates. Our aim was to help these graduate students see themselves as teachers of disciplinary thinking as much as of disciplinary content. However, they also began to reexamine their teaching beliefs and practices, recognize and respond to the needs of novice learners, and become more conscious of the demands of learning their disciplines. We offer this program as a model for developing future facuity.

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