I listened to Gary and Vivian's presentation yesterday and want to add afew comments and ideas. I think that the idea of a National Standard is would be timely given the surveys that are done to rate univsersity teachers and universities. My experience from a faculty development perspective is that there are lots of quality teachers out there that are not recognized in a formal way and just as there are many that really are terrible teachers and should be required to meet a standard.
It would be great to have a national iniative to enhance post secondary teaching. One way to work this would be through President's of University and Ministry's of Education ie a National lobby to have the the Provincial Ministries to take this idea on and fund the development. STHLE could lobby
(in a very organized way) all advanced ed ministries. Get it on a formal agenda. This would be one root.
The other is to apply to a funding group and have STHLE lead the research, and write a report on the status of training programs across the country and craete a set of standards (or if this is too big pick a province ie BC for example). The STHLE team could then use the information in two ways...lobby government to implement the standards and encopurage instituitional members to adopt the standards thus building grassroots up an expectation for improving faculty expertise as effective educators. Material could be developed for a natioanl program. We have the expertise re writing curriculum and craeting certification programs through STHLE.
A research proposal to SSHRC for funding for a National survey etc or begin across several provinces. I think that this would have National appeal re funding.
CAUT could be involved as well as Advanced Ed Ministries.
Penny Heaslip
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I think this is a great idea. I have tried to go to the SCoPE site on occasion however with all the email etc that comes through my box it is hard to remember that we are a community and from time to time we should try to connect. I have done a couple of web seminars this term and really like the venue. Perhaps increasing our group, offering interesting topics for faculty developers development over the web would be another way for all of us to connect between meetings. Penny Heaslip
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Dear Colleagues
I have indicated to Paul Stacey that I would be interested in attending the Jan 14th meeting as one of the five representatives from the UICPD group. Paul suggested and I think it is a good idea that selection of the representatives be vetted through the UCIPD members or if we are not going to decide who will represent our group then we need to indicate that representatives will be selected by some other means. I am requesting that we decide how we would like to address representation from our group and we need to have that discussion now so that individuals can be named and Paul Stacey can be informed.
Here is my suggestion to get the conversation going:
Vancouver Island 1 represenative
Vancouver and area 2 represenatives
Northern BC 1 representative
Interior BC /South Eastern BC 1 represenative
Secondly, given the call for represenatives is to establish a new proposal to use the remainder of the BCCampus PD funding the group represenatives need to be prepared to write / design a proposal.
Looking forward to your ideas.
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