Skip to main content

Professional & Pedagogy Development

 

Development Opportunities

  • You can find development opportunities offered by the offices of Faculty Advancement, Educational Effectiveness, Integration of Faith and Learning, Diversity and Inclusion, and Digital Learning and Program Development on the Development Opportunities webpage.

 

Pedagogical Resources

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): Advances in AI technology continue to impact the teaching and learning environment. Here are some helpful tips, sample syllabus statements and recommendations for optimizing learning in your classroom.
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Universal Design for Learning provides a helpful framework to improve teaching and learning based on scientific insights into how humans learn.
  • Women in the Classroom: Creating a Hospitable Climate: In this series of three-minute videos, your colleagues draw on research to show how you can create a classroom environment that welcomes women's contributions and shows your women students that their experiences matter. In each video, you will hear specific recommendations for ways in which you can become more aware of your interactions and make small changes that will have a big impact.

 

Student Feedback and Reflective Practice

The more we know about how our students are experiencing our course, the more we can adapt our teaching to achieve our goals. Collecting mid-semester feedback in addition to the end-of-term IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction provides an avenue of collecting this information directly from students.

  • Mid-Semester Feedback: Mid-semester feedback lets instructors "check the pulse” of their class partway through the semester. You can find samples and templates on the Faculty Advancement website.
  • The IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction: At Biola, we use the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (SRI) instrument to collect student feedback at the end of the term. You can find more information, sample forms, best practices and report interpretation resources on the IDEA website.

 

Teaching Publications

  • Teaching Professor: Published weekly online, The Teaching Professor offers readers thoughtful advice on a wealth of critical topics, including: planning and designing courses; promoting academic integrity; increasing student engagement; responding to course evaluations and feedback; dealing with difficult students; and developing effective activities and assignments.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators.
  • Faculty Focus: Faculty Focus publishes three articles each week written by instructors, teachers, instructional designers and others from around the world. We provide insight into what’s working (and what’s not) for in-person classrooms, online classrooms and hybrid classrooms.