Faculty Development

Welcome to the Office of Faculty Development

The office's aim is to help instructors at all levels (board appointed faculty, adjunct and part-time faculty, and graduate student instructors) develop the skills necessary to implement powerful pedagogies in their teaching. Regardless of whether courses are face-to-face or online, large or small, powerful pedagogies emphasize strong instructional design that maximizes student engagement. Such teaching plays a critical role in the WMU commitment to increasing student success.

Services

We offer a variety of services to individual instructors as well as to groups. These include:

On-campus programs
See the schedule for details about short workshops, book discussions, and longer development opportunities.

Specialized programming for department and faculty groups
If your department or a group of faculty wishes to explore a particular teaching approach, want training in specific areas, or is interested in a tailored faculty development experience, please contact us to discuss how we can work with you.

Individual teaching consultations
We can work with instructors one-on-one through discussion of course design, syllabus construction, and teaching approaches; classroom observation and feedback; and interpretation of end-of-course student evaluations.

Programs

The links on the left will take you to services the office offers, programs planned for 2011-2012, and an ever-growing set of "vetted" and annotated links to resources for teaching and learning. Read more about our efforts in our Strategic Plan.

News:

Apply now for the Faculty Instructional Development Grants Program

Learn more about our new Faculty Peer Teaching Observation Program

Upcoming Events:

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Cool Tools for Teaching

How to find us:

Our office is located in Room 2029 in the University Computing Center.

The OFD is just down the hall from the eastern entrance.