Teaching Excellence Committee Members

Pamela Kaye, Chair
George Cooke, Creative Arts & Communication
Chris Young, Humanities
Joe Ritter, Math & Natural Sciences
Libby Scheiern, Social Sciences
Lisa Roberts, Library

Funding

This is a dramatic, intensive one-year push to enhance teaching excellence in the classroom. The new faculty evaluation and promotion procedures have identified unrecognized areas to enhance excellence in the classroom. Among the goals of this intensive, year-long program is faculty education on advances in learning theory and trends in teaching techniques- active learning concepts, project centered learning, service learning, experiential learning, problem-based teaching. This program will allow current faculty with expertise in specific teaching skills to share with their colleagues, bring guest speakers and lecturers to conduct workshops and master classes,and support faculty participation in conferences and workshops around the nation. The program will support new teachers and senior faculty alike, as we seek to lift students from knowledge to understanding. Topics will range from advances in learning theory to nuts-and-bolts classroom techniques.

The $50,000 budget comes from the money set aside for the Teaching, Learning and Research Center, per the authority of the College Executive Committee.

Activities

Teaching Tips by Wilbert J. McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki (2006)
Each academic unit will have a copy of this book and orders for personal copies will be available.

"The Professor"
Each full-time faculty member will receive a subscription to this monthly pamphlet of teaching tips.

Friday Teaching Luncheons
Free lunch and open discussion on classroom teaching topics.

Conferences
The Teaching Excellence Fund will pay all expenses for 18 faculty to attend conferences that focus on classroom teaching. Learn more by clicking on the Conferences link above.

Workshops
Attend free on-campus workshops sponsored by the Teaching Excellence Committee. To learn more about the workshops, and to register as a participant, please click on the Workshops link above.

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