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The JPBM Task Force on the Educational Activities of Faculty
Needs Your Help
The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics has created a Task Force whose
mission is to provide the post-secondary mathematical community with
resources for enhancing the educational activities of faculty. Its goal is
to help institutions and departments reflect on their educational missions,
determine the range of educational activities that should "count" in the
promotion and tenure process given their missions, and document educational
activities in reliable and meaningful ways. We want to help faculty do the
job well and to be rewarded appropriately for their efforts.
The task force will produce two books.
One will describe the state of the art, providing a statistical survey of
current practices at different kinds of institutions. It will say what we
know about reliable methods for enhancing, documenting, and rewarding
faculty's educational contributions (e.g., through student evaluations,
peer review, and documentation of instructional efforts via course and
teaching portfolios)
The second will provide descriptions of models that work. It will offer
case studies showing how institutions as different as community colleges,
small colleges, and public and private universities help faculty, graduate
students, and administrators develop institutional cultures and procedures
that enhance and reward educational efforts. There will be no
prescriptions, but rich examples to learn from.
The Task Force looking for information and ideas.
* What issues should we address? Are there things you want
to know about, or you think the field should know about?
* What resources, ideas, or programs should we be aware of?
* What departments would be good candidates for site visits?
Please contact the Task Force chair, Alan Schoenfeld, with this or any
other information and suggestions. Write
Alan H. Schoenfeld
Chair, JPBM Task Force on Educational Activities
School of Education, EMST
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
or send email to <alans@socrates.berkeley.edu>. Information will be
welcome at any time, but will be most useful if received by April 30, 1998.
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Alan H. Schoenfeld
Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education
Education, EMST, Tolman Hall # 1670
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
Phone: 510-642-0968
Fax: 510-642-3769
email: alans@socrates.berkeley.edu
Home page (papers, etc.): http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/Faculty/aschoenfeld
UCB page: http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/Faculty/gsefaculty.ss.html#schoenfeld
Phil DeMarois
Mathematics Department (847) 925-6728
William Rainey Harper College FAX: (847) 925-6049
1200 W. Algonquin Rd. e-mail: pdemaroi@harper.cc.il.us
Palatine, IL 60067
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