Promoting Reflective Teaching through Face-to-face, Online and Hybrid Faculty Reading Groups
Abstract: In many institutions, faculty members are expected to demonstrate excellence in realms that may include scholarship, teaching, practice, extension and service. While most faculty are well prepared wither academically or professionally for most of these realms, few received targeted development in their preparation on how to be effective in teaching (Zagar, Sampognaro, Robertson, & Craft, 2019). One familiar concept in programming for faculty development is the opportunity to engage in reading groups with colleagues. While these groups consistently have challenges with maintaining engagement and time management, they are clearly having positive outcomes by those that participate. Participants in this roundtable will briefly review the literature on the benefits of reading groups and how they work followed the results of a recent survey into the the best practices found through one university’s survey of faculty developers. Participants will then discuss how to overcome barriers to implementing successful reading groups, how reading groups may benefit their faculty, and come away with strategies for using at their own institutions.