Seven local high school teachers and eight Elon professors developed plans for conducting classroom research in the upcoming academic year during an Aug. 4-6, 2008, institute held on campus.
The institute is the first step in the new Elon Teaching and Learning Partnership (ETLP), a year-long program to support scholarship of teaching and learning that brings together high school and university teachers to conduct collaborative research into common questions of student learning.
By focusing teachers on specific problems of student learning, ETLP offers a new model for addressing, and potentially resolving, important issues in high school and post-secondary education.
Over the next year, ELTP participants will be investigating questions that include the following:
• How do students approach complex disciplinary problems?
• How do students transfer what they learn in one academic context into their other academic work?
• How do students learn from informal and formal feedback?
ETLP participants will share the results of their research at their schools and in an online gallery on the ETLP website, accessible by click on the link to the upper right of this page. Participants may also present at regional and national conferences and write articles for both academic and practitioner journals.
The 2008-09 ETLP researchers are:
• Sophie Adamson, French, Elon University
• Mark Byers, Social Studies, Western Alamance High School
• Jeffrey Coker, Biology, Elon University
• Ayesha Delpish, Mathematics, Elon University
• Frank Felicelli, Social Studies, Cedar Ridge High School
• Christi Fitch, Biology, Southern Alamance High School
• Pamela Fitzpatrick, English, Cedar Ridge High School
• Megan Isaac, English, Elon University
• Mark Meacham, English, Williams High School
• Crystal Medlin, Chemistry, Cedar Ridge High School
• Jessie Moore, English, Elon University
• Paula Patch, English, Elon University
• Stephen Schulman, Philosophy, Elon University
• Valerie Sellars, Biology, Graham High School
• Shawn Tucker, Art & Art History, Elon University
Ben McFadyen (CATL/ID&D), Katie King (Psychology/CATL), Kim Pyne (English), and Peter Felten (CATL) facilitated this week’s institute. Guest scholars provided individual and small group guidance to participants.
Judith Howard and Glenda Crawford from Elon’s School of Education, and Beth Powers-Costello and Michelle Jay from the University of South Carolina’s School of Education, served as those guests scholars.
ETLP is funded by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and coordinated by Elon University’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.
The program is scheduled to continue with additional teacher/faculty cohorts to be selected during fall 2009 and 2010.
For additional information, contact Peter Felten at (336) 278-5100 or via email at pfelten@elon.edu.