Small Steps that can be justified by small benefits that result almost immediately.

• Use of clickers in classrooms (?)

• Great Ideas for Teaching - Faculty Development in 20 Minutes, Simpson College, Sal Meyers, Director of Faculty Development, [Most sessions are led by faculty members - and run twice in 2 days!] Sal.meyers@simpson.edu

• From the Website: "Innovation Ideas from POD Participants - Formerly the Bright Idea Award"

• Todd Zakrajsek's "The 5-minute Workshop" (2003)

• Susan Marnell Weaver's   "Just In Time Bookmarks" (2006)

• Phyllis Blumberg's "Weekly Teaching Tip" (2000)

• Donna M. Qualters'  "Chalk Talk: Dear Jonas" (2001)

• Faculty "show & tell" sessions ("small" in duration)
• Brainstorming session
• Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS)
• Kapio'lani giving faculty the option to 'advertise' an invitation to other faculty to come and observe their class meetings.

• Activity difficult to support if deployed on a large scale (e.g., .Video capture of a course and sharing the result on the Web)

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Small Steps that can be justified by long-term, large-scale, or cumulative benefits.

• Use of clickers in classrooms(?).

• Beginning an online initiative for your entire institution.

• All-day orientation program for full faculty.
• Use of clickers in classrooms.
• Requiring students to use wikis in a course to develop instructional materials for that course - should begin with a small part of the course and semester by semester add one part at a time.  
• Regular surveys of faculty to harvest LT teaching ideas from them, and then using email to broadcast those ideas to all faculty, one idea at a time.
•  "Leadership Committee" - engaging initial participants in organizing the transition from small to big.
• Teaching faculty to understand and use formative and summative assessments within their own courses.

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No realistic way to start small.

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No realistic way to start small or succeed big.

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