Curriculum Development as Professional Development: A Model for Adjunct and Graduate Student Instructors Teaching Multi-Section Lab Courses

 

Janet Vigna, Jen Cymbola, & Jodi De Nuyl

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2011, Volume 32

Abstract

Instructors for our multiple section non-majors biology lab course are primarily adjunct instructors and graduate students. While some of them have been teaching lab sections for years, most of them are fairly new to teaching and have never had training in effective teaching pedagogy or curriculum development. In an effort to improve teaching performance and instructor retention, and to provide professional development for our instructors, we involved them in a revision of the lab course curriculum.

Keywords:  teaching assistants, curriculum reform

Dalhousie University (2010)