Center Announces
2009-10 Scholars
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) is pleased to name four new CATL Scholars for 2009-2010: Jessie Moore, English; Ayesha Delpish, Mathematics; and Brooke Barnett and Ken Calhoun, Communications
The CATL Scholars program cultivates highly innovative teaching and learning at Elon University so that participants both engage deeply with the shared goals of our academic community and develop “the unique gifts” that each individual Scholar possesses. CATL Scholars will receive funding for two years to develop, implement, and assess projects intended to transform student learning.
Jessie Moore, Department of English
"Reacting to Language Policy"
A project designed to involve students in the development
and revision of a reacting pedagogy unit for ENG 206: Intro
to TESOL. Moore plans to study student learning outcomes facilitated by the reacting pedagogy. She also hopes to examine student participation in curriculum design and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Ayesha Delpish, Department of Mathematics
"Towards a Community of Learners:
A Case Study Approach to Statistics"
This project involves the investigation of the case-study approach as a teaching and learning tool as applied in MTH 212: Statistics
in Application. Delphish's goal is to share/obtain perspectives on the advantages and issues with using case studies as an inquiry-based learning approach to teaching. She also hopes to explore methods of incorporating inquiry-based learning into core courses, obtain ideas for the development of case studies, and find new ways to engage multiple majors at once in an attempt to reach
a positive outcome for student-centered learning.
Brooke Barnett & Ken Calhoun, Communications
"Bringing Expert and Personal Voices into the Classroom: Educational DVDs as Pedagogical Tools"
This project seeks to deveop an innovative educational DVD for use by faculty partners in different disciplines at Elon. In addition to their pedagogical purposes, the DVDs will also be best-cases
for whether a documentary-style approach can be used effectively across the university as a way to pioneer an innovative approach to a common teaching problem and further Elon’s national reputation for pedagogy.
Early next fall the CATL will invite applications from faculty for appointment to be Scholars. |
Fall 2008 Programs
(1) A three-part series on grading
(2) Discussions about whether “google is making us stupid” and about how the election might become part of your classes (regardless of what subject you
are teaching)
(3) The opportunity to attend presentations by a scientist talking about how new research on the biology of learning should influence our teaching, and by two national experts on service-learning and civic engagement
(4) Three research groups -- one on visual culture, one on academic service-learning research, and one on the scholarship of teaching and learning
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