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Moving Forward: Your Own Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: David Steer
Department of Geology & Environmental Sciences
University of Akron
August 2007 Moving Forward: Your Own Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Slide2: Teaching scholarship
Scholarly teaching
Scholarship of Teaching And Learning Sorting out the levels
Slide3: Identify a problem (with your teaching and/or student learning).
You make informed adjustments.
Levels: Teaching Scholarship Consult experienced colleagues
Review literature
Slide4: Familiarize yourself with historical literature.
Stay current with existing literature.
Implement practices shown to be effective in the literature. Levels: Scholarly Teaching
Slide5: … to you?
SoTAL: What does it mean? Inquiry to student learning
Advances the practice of teaching
Publicly disseminated results/findings http://www.issotl.org
Slide6: Start small
Set limits
Practice the technique in advance
Make purpose and process clear to students
Plan your data analysis in advance
Getting Started Cross, P.K. and Steadman, M.H., 1996. Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, p. 226.
Slide7: Be flexible
Don’t ask for data you do not want or need
Collaborate
Give students feedback
Getting Started (con’t) Cross, P.K. and Steadman, M.H., 1996. Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, p. 226.
Slide8: Focus on your interests
Keep it simple
Review literature in advance
Write a research question
Discuss with other faculty
Focus on the student
Other things to think about Cross, P.K. and Steadman, M.H., 1996. Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, p. 226.
Slide9: Select a research process (don’t reinvent)
Try a pilot
Publish results
Other things to think about Cross, P.K. and Steadman, M.H., 1996. Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, p. 226.
Slide10: Does it count toward tenure?
How will my Department view this research?
Are there College of Education collaborators?
Are there institutional resources?
Can I team with outside collaborators?
Some questions to consider …
Slide11: Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (eds.) (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.(http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1 )
Angelo, T.A. and Cross, P.K., 1993. Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers, 2nd ed., Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 448 pp.
Cross, P.K. and Steadman, M.H., 1996. Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 264 pp. References