For universities and colleges recruitment, development, and retention of
our human resources are crucial to the growth and sustainability of our
institutions. While we recognize that human capital is our most
important resource we often overlook the importance of ongoing
professional development for our administrators, faculty and staff,
particularly as institutions are faced with change and complex
challenges. Over the last decade higher education has seen reduced
funding, new budget models, new technologies, the introduction of
performance targets and metrics, and new student demographics.
Professional development is mission critical for higher education
institutions – and investment in professional development can
differentiate and distinguish an institution as a learning organization
for the future.
Teacher training for early years or nursery education
The Centre for Higher Education Research and Development (CHERD) has
been providing professional development for university and college
administrators and managers for over 30 years. Like institutions, we are
changing too, with new current curriculum, technologies and delivery
modes. This fall we have two fully online credentials targeted to the
evolving higher education professional in Canada: one focusing on
University and College Administration and one dedicated to Academic
Advising.
The group covers research in initial teacher education, continuing
professional development and teachers’ careers.The aims of the Teacher
Education and Development SIG are:
to bring together all those with a special interest in the full
continuum of teacher education – initial teacher education, induction,
early professional development continuing professional development,
accomplished teaching/advanced certification and leadership
preparation/development across school and higher education settings;
to promote UK-wide, comparative and international perspectives on
contemporary developments in policy and practice for teacher education
and teaching across the life course;
to promote research on and for teacher education, including
consideration of the work and identities of teachers and teacher
educators;
to explore and theorise the links between knowledge creation and
identity across the continuum of student, teacher and teacher educator
learning.
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