is also happening when the instructor discussesteaching practice with their peers, reads about effective teaching practice in literature or writesabout what they tried out in their course. Instructors are a community of reflective practitioners.Their self-initiated instructional development activities should not be ignored in facultydevelopment research.Further about instructors’ self-initiated instructional development, our data based on oneCanadian engineering school showed the differences among faculty members in pursuinginstructional supports: teaching-stream faculty and sessional instructors appear to be more likelyto access instructional development resources than tenure-stream faculty members. This can beexplained by their primary