Liberal Education: Faculty development for teaching innovation - Greater Expectations

Liberal Education: Faculty development for teaching innovation - Greater Expectations: "he action research model describes cycles of change with four 'moments': planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Applied to teaching, this suggests that an instance of teaching change involves four stages:

* selecting a new practice,

* experimenting with it,

* collecting information on what kind of learning the practice produced, and

* reflecting on the desirability of the change as well as whether the practice should be continued, modified, or discarded under specific sets of conditions.

"