Modeling Best Professional Practices in Scholarship
As part of the institution and the professional education unit’s requirements, service to college and community are integral components of all faculty members’ workload. Faculty accomplishments over the last five years in teaching and in creative and scholarly efforts have included the following:
o Faculty’s professional activities—creative products, publications, recent awards, professional presentations, etc.
Faculty members’ professional activities over the last five years have been primarily in the area of professional presentations. These have included the following topics and venues:
* Co-presentation: “The Role of Department Chairs in Promoting Action Research as a Way of Supporting Faculty Professional Growth and Development” Academic Chairpersons Conference, Orlando, FL, 2004
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research as a Way of Supporting Faculty Professional Growth and Development” National Council for Staff, Program, and Organizational Development, Kansas City, MO, 2004
* Presentation: “Using Action Research to Improve Teaching in the Secondary Classroom” at Evanston Township High School, Illinois, 2003
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research Guidelines to Improve the Scholarship of Teaching in College Classrooms” at Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Teaching Excellence, 2002 & 2003
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research Guidelines to Improve the Scholarship of Teaching in Science Classrooms” National Science Teachers Association Convention, San Diego, CA, 2000
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research Guidelines to Improve the Scholarship of Teaching” 23rd Annual Lilly Conference, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 2001
* Co-preparation of the "Cooperating Teacher's Reference Guide" for distribution to cooperating teachers in the greater Chicago area
* Using Instruction in English-as-a-Second-Language and the Arts to Expand Access to Mathematics: The Chicago Bilingual Summer Mathematics Laboratory. Lead Presenter. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Central Regional Conference. Chicago, Illinois, 2006.
* Received College fellowship to travel to Cuerrnavaca, region Mexico to explore possibilities for designing a J-term study abroad program for teacher candidates
o Faculty development plan and activities
Faculty members’ development plans are documented primarily in the annual report of tenure-track members and the three-year Chair’s Evaluation report. Developmental plans focus primarily on the need for more scholarly activity on the part of all faculty members. At present, such plans are almost exclusively geared towards presentations at local or national conferences.
o Faculty’s professional activities—creative products, publications, recent awards, professional presentations, etc.
Faculty members’ professional activities over the last five years have been primarily in the area of professional presentations. These have included the following topics and venues:
* Co-presentation: “The Role of Department Chairs in Promoting Action Research as a Way of Supporting Faculty Professional Growth and Development” Academic Chairpersons Conference, Orlando, FL, 2004
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research as a Way of Supporting Faculty Professional Growth and Development” National Council for Staff, Program, and Organizational Development, Kansas City, MO, 2004
* Presentation: “Using Action Research to Improve Teaching in the Secondary Classroom” at Evanston Township High School, Illinois, 2003
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research Guidelines to Improve the Scholarship of Teaching in College Classrooms” at Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Teaching Excellence, 2002 & 2003
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research Guidelines to Improve the Scholarship of Teaching in Science Classrooms” National Science Teachers Association Convention, San Diego, CA, 2000
* Co-Presentation: “Action Research Guidelines to Improve the Scholarship of Teaching” 23rd Annual Lilly Conference, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 2001
* Co-preparation of the "Cooperating Teacher's Reference Guide" for distribution to cooperating teachers in the greater Chicago area
* Using Instruction in English-as-a-Second-Language and the Arts to Expand Access to Mathematics: The Chicago Bilingual Summer Mathematics Laboratory. Lead Presenter. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Central Regional Conference. Chicago, Illinois, 2006.
* Received College fellowship to travel to Cuerrnavaca, region Mexico to explore possibilities for designing a J-term study abroad program for teacher candidates
·Defining “Urban”: What Practicing Teachers Say about the Realities of Urban Classrooms and Their Advice for Preparing Beginning Teachers for Success in City Schools. Session Discussant. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois, 2003.
·Linking ESL and Standards-Based Mathematics. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 35th Annual Convention and Exposition. St. Louis, Missouri, 2001.
·Using Standards-Based Curricula with Second Language Learners: A Practical Model Linking Mathematics and English-as-a-Second-Language. National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics 32nd Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois., 2000.
·Innovative Curriculum Design for Math and Science: Classroom Research. Session Discussant. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.
·Examining Your Teaching Practice Using a Professional Portfolio. The Quest Continues: Advancing the Professionalization of Teaching. Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center Annual School Improvement Conference. Chicago, Illinois, 2000.
·Principal Investigator and Grant Director. The Chicago Bilingual Summer Mathematics Laboratory: Using Instruction in English-as-a-Second Language and the Arts to Expand Access to Standards-Based Mathematics Teaching and Learning. Project funded for five consecutive years for a total amount of $1.26 million by the Illinois State Board of Higher Education’s Improving Teacher Quality State Grant Program for Columbia College Chicago to work with a group of 28 Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers and their English language learner (ELL) students in 2004 and 34 CPS teachers and their ELL students in 2005, 52 CPS teachers and their ELL students in 2006-2007, 60 teachers in 2007-2008, and another 60 teachers in 2008-2009.
·Co-Investigator, Bilingual Summer Math Lab: Linking ESL Strategies with a Standards Based Approach to the Teaching of Math to Limited English Proficient Students. Institute for Math and Science Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999 – 2001.
·Using Standards-Based Curricula with Second Language Learners: A Practical Model Linking Mathematics and English-as-a-Second-Language. National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics 32nd Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois., 2000.
·Innovative Curriculum Design for Math and Science: Classroom Research. Session Discussant. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.
·Examining Your Teaching Practice Using a Professional Portfolio. The Quest Continues: Advancing the Professionalization of Teaching. Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center Annual School Improvement Conference. Chicago, Illinois, 2000.
·Principal Investigator and Grant Director. The Chicago Bilingual Summer Mathematics Laboratory: Using Instruction in English-as-a-Second Language and the Arts to Expand Access to Standards-Based Mathematics Teaching and Learning. Project funded for five consecutive years for a total amount of $1.26 million by the Illinois State Board of Higher Education’s Improving Teacher Quality State Grant Program for Columbia College Chicago to work with a group of 28 Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers and their English language learner (ELL) students in 2004 and 34 CPS teachers and their ELL students in 2005, 52 CPS teachers and their ELL students in 2006-2007, 60 teachers in 2007-2008, and another 60 teachers in 2008-2009.
·Co-Investigator, Bilingual Summer Math Lab: Linking ESL Strategies with a Standards Based Approach to the Teaching of Math to Limited English Proficient Students. Institute for Math and Science Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999 – 2001.
o Faculty development plan and activities
Faculty members’ development plans are documented primarily in the annual report of tenure-track members and the three-year Chair’s Evaluation report. Developmental plans focus primarily on the need for more scholarly activity on the part of all faculty members. At present, such plans are almost exclusively geared towards presentations at local or national conferences.
