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Direct linkVicki L. Baker; Linda M. Boland – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
One of the most powerful faculty development resources for tenured faculty across the academy is the sabbatical. Despite benefits realized by faculty members and their institutions, there are few resources available to faculty developers or campus leaders to provide strategic guidance and mentorship throughout all phases of the sabbatical…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Sabbatical Leaves, Guidance, Mentors
Cronin, Sue – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to consider the practices and experiences of the new school-based mentors for Early Career Teachers (ECT's), emerging from the UK Government's new early career framework (ECF) policy (DfE, 2019a). The paper uses Lipsky's (2010) framing of professionals as "street level bureaucrats" to consider the extent to which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Mentors, Novices
Download full textYvonne Earnshaw; Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif – Online Learning, 2024
The purpose of this research was to examine the needs of tenure-seeking faculty teaching in online programs and how they can best be supported by mentoring. Through the lens of Yob and Crawford's (2012) conceptual framework for mentoring, we examine through critical discourse analysis how 19 online tenure-seeking faculty talk about mentoring. Very…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Tenure, Mentors
Blakely Brown; Maja Pedersen; Jennifer Harrington; Annie Belcourt; Sweeney Windchief; Aaron Thomas; Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills; Otakuye Conroy-Ben; Erik Brodt; Karletta Chief; Serra Hoagland; Michelle Johnson-Jennings; Jordan Lewis; Kirsten Green Mink; Kathryn C. A. Milligan-Myhre; Matthew Calhoun; Angela Ozburn; Vanessa Simonds; Anne Des Rosier Grant; Salena Hill; Ke Wu – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
Mentorship programs for Native American (NA) faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields hold significant promise toward developing, recruiting, and retaining NA members of the professoriate. In 2018, a qualitative study was conducted that explored experiences, and mentoring relationships that enhanced or inhibited…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Faculty, STEM Education, STEM Careers
Akiri, Effrat; Dori, Yehudit Judy – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
The first years of teaching are crucial for novice teachers' integration into and retainment in the education system. The support they receive from experienced teachers impacts their professional development. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers require specialized support from domain-specific mentors. In this study,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Faculty Development, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers
Tapala, Tshepo T. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2023
For organisations to thrive, their employees need to be trained and developed. The training must be specific and targeted to the benefit of both the individual employee and the organisation they serve. The training and development can be for the development of the individual which will directly benefit the organisation. In reverse, whole…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Management Development, School Administration, Mentors
Lisa Kervin; Jessica Mantei; Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
The shortage of qualified Early Childhood Teachers is one of the most complex challenges facing the Australian early learning sector. The Early Childhood Elevate Mentoring Program (ECEM) was conceptualised, developed and implemented with ECTs to enable them to support Diploma trained educators as they studied an accelerated Bachelor of Early Years…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Capacity Building, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development
Examining Professional Development among Faculty Members across Varying Career Stages in Kinesiology
Muir, Irene L.; Chittle, Laura; Santarossa, Sara – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2022
Professional development (PD) was examined among faculty members to identify enablers and inhibitors, and the coping strategies used to mitigate these. Three faculty members in the field of Kinesiology, at different career stages (early, middle, and late career), were recruited to participate in semi-structured phone interviews. Guided by…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Career Development, Kinesiology
C. Cameron; H. Y. Lee; C. B. Anderson; E. K. Dahlstrom; S. Chang – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Scientific communication (SC) has important social-cognitive, behavioral, and career-related benefits for emerging researchers, but both mentors and mentees find development of SC skills challenging. Whether training mentors to effectively mentor development of SC skills could have a meaningful impact on mentees was not clear. The Scientific…
Descriptors: Mentors, Communication (Thought Transfer), Scientific and Technical Information, Skill Development
Daniel Sidney Fussy – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
The research landscape in higher education is changing rapidly, with new challenges and opportunities emerging that require researchers to be adaptable and willing to learn new skills. The study reported in this article explored how Tanzanian universities can support the development of researchers. The study was guided by Linda Evans' conceptual…
Descriptors: Researchers, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Universities
Kiviniemi, Ulla; Tynjälä, Päivi; Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Martin, Anne – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
This study examines a hybrid form of the Finnish Peer-Group Mentoring (PGM) merging student teachers and in-service teachers of different career stages in group meetings facilitated by an educated mentor. Experiences of the in-service participants were studied by interviewing them, and the data were analysed through thematic analysis. Four main…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Mentors, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Tietjen-Smith, Tara; Hersman, Bethany; Block, Betty A. – Quest, 2020
The role of the department head is one of the most vital and challenging positions held within higher education. Due to lack of training, many department heads experience role strain and subsequent burnout. This leads to a high turnover rate for administrators at this level. Succession planning, realized through a strong mentoring program and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Kinesiology, Department Heads, Leadership Training
Luft, Julie A.; Whitworth, Brooke A. – Science Teacher, 2019
Science teachers need to consider how they want to grow professionally. Thinking about one's future involves identifying the knowledge, practices, and attributes needed in a new role. By using a framework such as the science education trajectory (SET), teachers can more easily consider their professional options and work strategically toward them.…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Role
Berríos, Paulina; Montiel, Braulio; Aguilera, Fernanda; Gutiérrez, Karen; Álvarez, Estefanía; Robaldo, Marcelo; Pino, Fabian; Fuentes, Javier; Olea, Claudio – Higher Education Forum, 2022
This article addresses issues related to academics' perception on how well their institutions support and accompany them during their academic career. The main questions addressed in the article are: How accessible is mentoring for academics? Do academics perceive they are well supported in their academic careers? What strategies do higher…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Mentors, Gender Differences
Rossouw, J. P. – Perspectives in Education, 2022
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taught everyone that long-term planning and execution, which have always been taken for granted, are not a given. In many contexts, stagnation was the initial outcome of hard lockdowns. As international travel ground to a halt, the lack of mobility seriously hampered scholarly personal interaction as an essential…
Descriptors: Researchers, Career Development, COVID-19, Pandemics
