Some experience from US! "The American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) has defined faculty development as the theory/practice of facilitating improved faculty performance in a variety of domains including institutional, intellectual, personal, social, and pedagogical."

http://www.bhmed-emanual.org/book/export/html/108

It can include the following:

--Topics of general interest related to development in academics globally including new technologies like black board, etc.

--Relevant sessions on professional academic ethics, including dignity of discourse

--Some sessions on behavioral competencies so that people can change mindsets to do collaborative academic work e.g. developing patience, tolerance, control of anger

--Gen Y, and its changing expectations about the learning content and methodology

--How to write research papers, apply for grants, and where to get the requisite support

--How to publish papers in reputed journals, and what precaution to be taken

--Advanced developments in the area of the faculty through leading experts: This should have maximum number of sessions

I think there should be some permanent seminars:

1. Teaching methodologies

2. Research developments

3. Program for (foreign and not) invitations. It should be long invitations, at least 3 months. Short invitations should also included in the program.

Each member has to participate actively to seminars.

Some experience from US! "The American Association of Higher Education (AAHE) has defined faculty development as the theory/practice of facilitating improved faculty performance in a variety of domains including institutional, intellectual, personal, social, and pedagogical."

http://www.bhmed-emanual.org/book/export/html/108

In addition to the points you all indicated, the essentials of why and how interdisciplinary and cooperative teaching with faculty members of experience might as well be important.

I would add Philosophy of Sciences (General Philosophy shared by all science disciplines and Specialized Philosophy that applies to one science discipline). What is the Philosophy of Education?

A good introduction on ICT

Recent trends in education such as Massive Open Ob-line Courses

Writing syllabus

Writing instructional materials

Review of school policies

Improving interpersonal relationships

What we strongly need is: Communication skills and how to transfer your thoughts and knowledge to others.

Dear @Nasser, a faculty training program should include fun, joy, and relaxation from lectures.

Dear Nasser

PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION (Faculty Education Program - AO Trauma Brazil)

1) Based on the need

2) Motivation to learn

3) Relevance

4) Interaction

5) Encouraging feed back

6) Promoting reflection

7) Final Goal with positive results

Learning

Change in practice as a result of an experiment

Learner should be able to do something new or do differently

Learning Cycle

Experience - note - thought and action

How to retain information

5% class

10% reading

20% audiovisual

30% demonstration

50% thread

75% practice

 90% teaching

The mediocre teacher tells; the good explains , the top shows and the great teacher inspires

Learning: cognitive, affective and psychomotor

Cognitive: knowledge, successes, skills and intellectual

Affective: attitudes, feelings, beliefs, emotions, values ​​and prejudices

Psychomotor: skills, make, coordinated physical activity

3 types of students:

Visual, auditory and anesthetic (learns best through experience)

Not understand something until you've learned more than one way

People overcome their challenges when it is its own challenge

It may include the following:

*Systems of examinations and student assessment

*Ethics of Scientific Research

*Recent trends in teaching

*Engineering thinking and integrated into the curriculum and courses

*Skills of Finding Learning Resources

*Strategic planning in academic institutions

*Develop the skills of administrative leadership

*E-Learning teaching skills and education networking

*Effective teaching using learning management systems

*International Scientific Publishing

*Organizing scientific conferences and workshops

*Managing time and meetings

*Quality Assurance in Higher Education

*Decision-making and problem-solving

*Managing the research team

*Profession Behaviors

*Using technology in teaching

*Distance Learning Technology

*Academic Advising

*Field visits

*Dealing with the Digital Library

*Awareness in the field of programs and community activities

*Linking scientific research to the needs and problems of the local

community

*Communication skills

I as a lecture in a faculty need to train:

1-Copr wright regulations

2-creativity methods

3-entrepreneurial skills in real form

4-Start Up course

5-Team working

6-communication skills

7-leadership skills

8-planning and programming for students

Dear Nelson, Mohi and Mohammad et al. . Very insightful threads. They can be highly inspiring to all but still more to especially the young faculty members who have joined or are about to join the academic profession, and who have willingness to learn and improve their research, teaching and scholarly competencies.

I think colleagues above came with lots to fill in your program and they are all very thoughtful ideas and can enrich any training. However, as the trainee are all highly intellectual people (even the young ones) I recommend that such events be a two way and interactive program; i.e. the participants should interchange roles and any one should be able to share his experience in teaching/research/grants/...etc with the others. Having some invited/internals renown moderators/speakers can enhance this as well. Thanks. @AlDmour.

Some suggestions:

1)Improve the ability to communicate with students by learning the youth codes

2)Supporting students in order to enter, later, in the 'publication industry'

3)Help stuff to find sources of possible financial funding.

To the extent that you can, please cater for some inter-disciplinary exposure. In the world of today no particular science/arts stream can consider itself complete without basic understanding of what other related sciences/arts are about. Like for example, to teach economics, a basic exposure to history and social behavior is essential. Even pure sciences today are considered useful to the extent that they are socially relevant and productive. So, exposure to relevant social sciences for technical/management teachers and vice a versa may be considered.

I think that something of specifically related to the different addresses of single scohhols need to be added as well as the affinity and interactions with other disciplines are necessary. An example may be to help the future lawyers to understand the definition of "medical error" in order to avoid lengthy and unnecessary legal procedures. On the other hand the same problem should be treated in medical scohols in oreder to know all the procedures which may guide medical pratice without risks of "errorrs". The problem is becoming increasingly topical and burning in industrialized countries so that lawyers put into practice a kind of "hunting error" and many physicians now practicing exclusively a "defensive medicine." All in a very empirical.way!

I training HE staff, use a variety of methods that they are supposed to use later with their students (interactive lectures, group work, discussions pro-con, simulations, role play, LTD on the basis of readings.., problem based learning...). Explain why you use those methods, encourage them to analyse their experience and plan how can they use those methods or their varieties. Use microteaching with video feedback and peer visits to classes.

Incorporate a FREE WHEELING exercise

It can include ;

Personality development games and tips

Communication skill exercises

Lectures on development of positive attitude

Tips on Acquire ment of soft skills and some life skill

Inculcation of spiritual and emotional quotient development exercises

And so on.....

Thank you all some great ideas. I plan to make a list and circulate among the faculty to choose the sessions they prefer. I will also ask for trainers/facilitators and may be this grow to be more than a simple training program.

I promise to share the results

@ Nasser, thanx, do really share the results :))

Interesting dear @Nasser, do not forget to have some fun in the training program.

Higher education pedagogy?

Agree with leigh, most of the time it was observed that the faculties are lacking in teaching pedagogy and communication at audience level. 

These must be included in a faculty training program. 

I am regularly called for conducting HRM programmes during the Faculty Development Programme (FDP) conducted both in the University of Madras & NITTTR.....The participant teachers (Lecturers / Asst.Professors) would be sitting tight frozen and watch the session for first 15 minutes (and will test the faculty teaching them).... the faculty should quickly ice-break...only upon that the session would get the gell...