The following opportunities are currently available through the Center for Teaching and Learning:
Download the Faculty Resources Bibliography (pdf).
Faculty will be able to share their syllabi with colleagues on the CTL Blackboard site. This will provide faculty members with an opportunity to see a variety of syllabi as they create and critique their own. If you would like to post your syllabus, contact Susan Hess (shess@hws.edu or x3787).
We would like you to mark your calendars early for the second annual Senior Symposium: April 9, 2010. Over 70 students and 40 faculty participated in the inaugural Senior Symposium this past spring; this year's symposium, again open to all HWS seniors and MAT students, will provide students with a venue to share and celebrate their independent projects, scholarly research, and intellectual passions. A large part of Senior Symposium success relies on faculty participation, in several different roles: first, seeking out students of promise and encouraging them to apply; second, sponsoring students by reviewing their applications and abstracts (all applications must have a faculty sponsor's signature); third, guiding applicants toward the abstract writing clinics and presentation workshops, as well as the sample abstracts available on the Senior Symposium website; fourth, using your expertise to help ensure high quality in the student's application and presentation. We will be calling for faculty willing to facilitate abstract and presentation workshops, as so many faculty were kind enough to do this past spring. Faculty, we especially welcome your involvement and expertise for the abstract and presentation workshops offered by the CTL. Contact Ruth Shields (shields@hws.edu or x3959).
CTL will be continuing our Weekly Teaching Tips series, designed to provide the HWS faculty with food for thought, and focused on engaging faculty in facilitating learning. We hope that these tips will assist faculty in becoming better connected to their practice and in helping students become better learners. Interested faculty can continue exploring Teaching Tips ideas in conversation on the Weekly Teaching Tips Blackboard site. If you would like more information, contact Ruth Shields (shields@hws.edu or x3959).
The CTL is pleased to announce that the Fall 2009 Faculty Reading Group will be exploring The Art of Changing the Brain by James E. Zull. The group will be meeting every other Friday from 1:15 - 2:30 in the Presentation Room (Learning Commons, first floor of the Library). To learn more about these events, please visit upcoming events. Contact Susan Pliner (pliner@hws.edu or x3354) if you have any questions.
During these informal gatherings, faculty have presented and facilitated discussion on relevant pedagogical topics. CTL is planning three sessions this semester, topics and dates to be announced. To learn more about these events, please visit upcoming events. Contact Susan Pliner (pliner@hws.edu or x3354) for more information.
This grant opportunity for projects that enhance faculty teaching and learning initiatives is available each semester. A call for Spring 2010 went out earlier in August. The deadline for proposals is Friday, October 30, 2009 by 5:00pm. Please send proposals to Susan Pliner. Past grant proposals and final reports can be viewed on the CTL Faculty Grants Blackboard site; please feel free to make use of these at your leisure. Contact Susan Pliner (pliner@hws.edu or x3354) for more information.
These customized, confidential sessions, available throughout the year, help faculty study their own teaching, assess their current teaching practice, and develop new strategies for improving learning. Please contact Susan Pliner (pliner@hws.edu or x3354).
CTL provides a confidential, small group instructional diagnosis session to assess teaching and learning at the mid-point in a semester. Please contact Susan Pliner (pliner@hws.edu or x3354).
CTL staff coordinate with faculty to tailor specific workshops to the needs of individual classes. Topics might include anything from effective skills for reading journal articles, to time management, to appropriate source use and avoiding plagiarism. Contact Susan Hess (shess@hws.edu or x3787) for writing-oriented workshops, Ruth Shields (shields@hws.edu or x3959) for oral presentation workshops, or Sam Vann (vann@hws.edu or x3060) for visits to class by CTL study mentors.
In addition to all the relevant CTL services above, the CTL in conjunction with both the Provost's office and the Learning Commons also offers specific services, workshops, and institutes to faculty teaching First-Year Seminars. Please contact Susan Hess at shess@hws.edu or 3787 for additional information.
