Structures
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"The most important reason for engaging in the
scholarship of teaching is professional role and responsibility.
Each of us in higher education is a member of at least
two professions: that of our discipline, interdiscipline
or professional field as well as our profession as
educator. In both of these intersecting domains, we
bear the responsibilities of scholars - to discover,
to connect, to apply and to teach. ...the core values
of professional communities revolve around the expectation
that we do not keep secrets... ...We are expected to share
our knowledge... ...We develop a scholarship of teaching
when our work as teachers becomes public, peer-reviewed
and critiqued, and exchanged with other members of
our professional communities so they, in turn, can
build on our work. These are the qualities of all scholarship."
- Lee Shulman
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The following structural scaffolding for 2003-2004 begin Western's public commitment
to SoTL:
- June 2003: Designate the Faculty Center's Faculty Fellow
for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, Dr. John Habel,
to be the Coordinator of SoTL at Western
- June 11-13, 2003: 1st annual Summer Institute for Teaching & Learning
based upon a SoTL approach to teaching and learning begins
SoTL at Western
- June 2003: Western formally joins the AAHE
/ Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Campus Program
- July 2003: As part of the Campus Program, Western joins
one of the AAHE / Carnegie Clusters by becoming a Core
Member of one of those Clusters, 'Organizing to Foster
the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning,' led by Cluster
Leader, Illinois State University with other members being
South Dakota State University, Richard Stockton College
(NJ), Dominican University (near Chicago), Southeast Missouri
State University, St. Olaf College (MN), Purdue University
at Calumet Buffalo State University and Western Carolina
University.
- August 2003: The new CFC Faculty Advisory Committee that
reports to CIC begins serving as the steering group for
the SoTL at Western initiative
- August 2003: Faculty Center's Certificate of Professional
Development in Teaching & Learning begins
- August 2003: Debbie Paulson is SoTL bibliographer at
Hunter Library and library liaison for SoTL at Western
- August 19, 2003: Welcome Luncheon for all faculty, UC
Grandroom, as fall semester kickoff event for SoTL at Western
- August 2003: Publish a booklet on SoTL in the Renaissance
of Teaching & Learning Booklet Series
- August 2003: SoTL at Western brochure and web site created
- August - September 2003: Ending of Faculty Teams concept
and the beginning of Faculty Learning Communities by creating
the first such FLCs in fall, 2003, dedicated to SoTL with
6-10 members who make a year-long commitment to meet regularly,
engage in SoTL and make their work public
- September 2003: Feature First Year Seminars, Learning
Communities and Liberal Studies as main topics for SoTL
during 2003 -2004
- Fall 2003: Faculty Series presentations
- Fall 2003: Develop ethical guidelines for classroom research
using students and their work
- Fall - Spring: Encourage AFE, TPR and PTR documents to
fully recognize SoTL under the 'Research' sections and
teaching innovations based upon SoTL under the 'Teaching' sections
- Fall - Spring: Expand the library's and CFC's holdings
on SoTL
- March 2004: 1st annual Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Faire
- March 2004: one or more Western faculty/administrators
attend the annual SoTL Colloquium conducted by the Carnegie
Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
- Spring 2004: Enlarge the scope of MountainRise, Western's
ejournal on SoTL, by opening it to submissions by faculty
at all Campus Program Cluster schools and include members
on the Editorial Review Board from those same schools
- Spring 2004: Initiate the Wisdom Project where the teaching
experience (Òwisdom of practiceÓ) of senior and retiring
faculty is chronicled, recorded, analyzed and make available
- Spring 2004: Faculty Series Presentations
- June 8 - 10, 2004: 2nd annual Western Summer Institute
for Teaching & Learning
- July 2004: one or more Western faculty/administrators
attend the AAHE Summer Academy as part of the Campus Program
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