Additionally, leaders at the faculty and institutional level could further support chairs in identifying and removing organizational and cultural barriers to instructor learning, for instance by allowing room for meetings in instructors' teaching schedules and by promoting flexibility amongst instructors to facilitate substitute teaching.
Compared with other key aspects of the course (e.g., individual meetings with instructors, in-class sample writing activities, and peer review), 38% of students ranked concept map activities as either the most or second-most valuable aspect of the course for learning to discuss one's research.
In Tanzania, tuition is often covered by the government but students also had travel and accommodation costs for face to face meetings with instructors, costs to use internet cafes, and costs for printing and photocopying of modules and additional resource materials.
The next morning, on Aug. 14, the office held its monthly meeting of instructors and administrators, and Mr. Moussaoui's name quickly came up.
During the 15 target class meetings, the instructor presented a slide at the beginning of class to announce that class would begin with a short series of questions to gauge students' understanding of the lesson topic for that day.
During this meeting the instructor familiarized students with the in-class question procedure, ensured that clickers were working properly, and reminded students to complete the first weekly quiz before the deadline.
In each class meeting, the instructor will introduce students to two Chinese cities, providing information on the cities' history, culture, traditions, food, and places of interest.
A week after the meeting the instructor contacted all the participants by telephone to encourage them to continue with their weekly action plans and to get feedback on the meeting from those who had attended.
The qualitative comments and observations provide some context for this finding because in the fall terms, the students, observations, and team meetings described the instructors as immediately responding to the group's ARS results whereby the instructor response was not evident in the winter term.
A graduate teaching assistant videotaped class meetings for the instructors' own analysis and self-improvement of teaching methods.
