Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Introductory)
Are you interested in collegial discussion and sharing about teaching effectiveness and student learning? Are you seeking new ways to engage students in the classroom? Are you interested in documenting and demonstrating the connections between your classroom teaching and student learning? If you answered yes to all or any of these questions, then the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) book discussion group is for you! SoTL can be defined as “systematic reflection on teaching and learning made public.” This fall, 4 sessions have been scheduled to read and discuss the book Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Journey Toward Scholarly Teaching (2007) by Paul Savory, Amy Nelson Burnett, and Amy Goodburn.
Fall 2009 Book Discussion
Inquiry into the college classroom: A journey toward scholarly teaching
This series of 4 sessions is for faculty interested in exploring questions centered around the scholarship of teaching and learning. CAFÉ will provide the book to faculty who sign up to participate. The book for fall, 2009 is Inquiry into the College Classroom: A Journey Toward Scholarly Teaching (2007) by Paul Savory, Amy Nelson Burnett, and Amy Goodburn.
Chapter 1 of this text opens with the following questions:
What is happening in my classroom?
How can you carry out more systematic inquiry into your teaching and your students’ learning?
How can you develop methods and processes for truly finding out what improves student learning in your courses?
The authors then outline a series of steps to design an inquiry in your classroom. Subsequent chapters in the text are case study examples of classroom inquiry portfolios created by college faculty teaching in a variety of disciplines from art and astronomy to math and political science.
The publisher describes Inquiry into the college classroom in the following way: “An essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work entailed in exploring a teaching question. As a how-to guide, this is an invaluable resource for planning and conducting classroom research—formulating questions and hypotheses, defining a data collection methodology, collecting data, measuring the impact, and documenting the results. Inquiry Into the College Classroom is filled with richly illustrative examples that highlight how university faculty from a range of academic disciplines have performed scholarly inquiries into their teaching.”
Series Goals:
1. To advance the knowledge and skill among faculty in scholarship of teaching and learning.
2. To provide peer consultation to interested faculty about their own scholarship of teaching and learning project(s).
Days & Times: Fridays, 9:00 - 10:30 am
Dates: September 18, October 16, November 6, and December 4.
Location: GHH 105 (CAFE Conference Room)
Convener: Randy Magen magen@uaa.alaska.edu
Audio-conferencing is available for most events. Please email request to Liisa at liisa@uaa.alaska.edu at least 48 hours in advance.
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