Many science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) faculty wish to make an academic change at the course, department, college, or university level, but they lack the specific tools and training that can help them achieve the changes they desire.
Making Changes in STEM Education: The Change Maker’s Toolkit is a practical guide based on academic change research and designed to equip STEM faculty and administrators with the skills necessary to accomplish their academic change goals. Each tool is categorized by a dominant theme in change work, such as opportunities for change, strategic vision, communication, teamwork, stakeholders, and partnerships, and is presented in context by the author, herself a change leader in STEM. In addition, the author provides interviews with STEM faculty and leaders who are engaged in their own change projects, offering additional insight into how the tools can be applied to a variety of educational contexts.
The book is ideal for STEM faculty who are working to change their courses, curricula, departments, and campuses and STEM administrators who lead such change work to support their faculties, as well as graduate students in STEM who plan to enter an academic position upon graduation and expect to work on academic change projects.
Author(s): Julia M. Williams
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 209
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Author
Chapter 1: The Change Maker’s Toolkit
Introduction
Academic Change in STEM Higher Education
My Experience as an Academic Change Maker
References
Dear Colleague Letter (A fiction that may be close to reality)
Four Perspectives on Academic Change
Chapter 2: Getting Ready for Change
Introduction
Your Change Autobiography
Put the Tool to Work
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Emerging Opportunities for Change
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
Institutional Language and the Rhetoric of Change
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
Change Readiness Assessment
Read More About It
Institutional Context and “The Battle of San Romano”
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
Your Roadmap for Change
Put the Tool to Work
Part 1—Your Roadmap
Part 2—Your Plan
Read More About It
Change Maker Interview: Dr. Jeremi London
Chapter 3: Initiating
Introduction
Read More About It
Three Communication Tools
Tool Type: Communication
Background on Your Change Project
A Definition of Your Change Project (A Single Sentence)
Put the Tool to Work
The Project Description (One Paragraph, About Five Sentences)
Put the Tool to Work
My action plan for this tool is:
Your Dream Team for Change
Tool Type: Teamwork
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
The Worst Team in the World
Tool Type: Teamwork
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Collaborators’ Compact
Tool Type: Teamwork
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Creating and Communicating a Shared Vision for Change
Tool Type: Communication and Teamwork
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
When Change Means Loss
Tool Type: Diagnosing Problems
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Flying Monkeys
Tool Type: Diagnosing Problems
Put the Tool to Work
My action plan for this tool is:
Let Me Give You Some Bad Advice
Tool Type: Diagnosing Problems
My action plan for this tool is:
Change Maker Interview: Dr. Rachel McCord Ellestad
Chapter 4: Maturing
Introduction
What’s The Buzz?
Tool Type: Communication
Put the Tool to Work
My Story Draft
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Time Bomb
Tool Type: Communication
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Tending to your Team
Tool Type: Teamwork
Put the Tool to Work
My action plan for this tool is:
Key Partners and Collaborators
Tool Type: Teamwork
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Catch this View
Tool Type: Diagnosing Problems
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Kintsugi, or Putting the Broken Pieces Together
Tool Type: Diagnosing Problems
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Change Maker Interview: Mr. Thor Misko
Chapter 5: Propagating
Introduction
Read More About It
Struck by Lightning (Talk)
Tool Type: Communication
Put the Tool to Work
My action plan for this tool is:
Telling Your Change Story
Tool Type: Communication
Put the Tool to Work
My action plan for this tool is:
Calling in Reinforcements
Tool Type: Teamwork
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Build a Future for Your Change Project
Tool Type: Teamwork
Put the Tool into Action
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Right This Way to the Fail Fest!
Tool Type: Diagnosing Problems
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Engineering for Failure
Tool Type: Diagnosing Problems
Put the Tool to Work
Read More About It
My action plan for this tool is:
Change Maker Interview: Dr. Jeff Froyd
Chapter 6: Arrivals and Departures
Introduction
Change Maker’s Appraisal
Put the Tool to Work
A Vision of Your Future(s)
Change Maker Interview: Dr. Khairiyah Mohd Yusof
Index
