Teaching Scholars Community for Junior Faculty
This community offers junior faculty the opportunity to enhance
their teaching interests and abilities through seminars, retreats,
national conferences, faculty mentors, student associates, teaching
projects, and colleagueship of peers from other disciplines.
This community assists selected junior faculty in developing their
teaching abilities and interests by enabling them to participate
in a two-semester series of special activities and to pursue individual
projects related to teaching. The Teaching Scholars receive financial
assistance for their projects. The objectives of the Teaching Scholars
Program are to provide participants with the following:
- Information on teaching and learning
- Opportunities to observe, assess, and practice innovative
teaching and uses of technology
- Financial support for individual investigations of teaching
and learning problems and projects
- Development of syllabi, including articulation of clear learning
objective
- Strengthening of basic teaching skills, for example, leading
class discussions, testing, and balancing both lecture and active
learning
- Clearer communication with students
- Ways to build a course around assessment of learning, for
example, determining that students achieve stated learning objectives
- Investigation and incorporation of ways that difference can
enhance teaching and learning
- A multiplicity of ways to gather and provide information for
both formative and summative evaluation of teaching
- Opportunities to share ideas and advice with faculty mentors
and student consultants. Awareness of teaching as an intellectual
pursuit and exploration of ways to engage in the scholarship
of teaching
- Interdisciplinary colleagueship and support from current and
former teaching scholars and mentors.
- Opportunities to share, via outreach, their enthusiasm and
experience with other new faculty
Participants will be introduced to the literature through readings
and seminars, based on the interests expressed by the community.
Seminar topics might include using discussion in the classroom,
videotaping teaching, enhancing the teaching/learning experience
through awareness of students' intellec tual development, the effect
of gender on the teaching/learning process, and sharing student
and faculty views of teaching and learning.
The Teaching Scholars pursue self-designed learning programs,
including a teaching project, for which they receive financial
support. Projects might include developing expertise and courseware
for computer-assisted instruction, redesigning an ongoing course,
and learning and trying a new teaching method. |
