One of the cornerstones of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning program is the speaker series. In this series, experts in teaching and learning share their work with instructors of all ranks at IU. It is like attending a handful of conference keynotes without the cost and travel a few times a year. The first… Read more »
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
What Inclusive Instructors Do
Through their national, multipart study of instructors at a variety of higher educational institutions, Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, Khadijah A. Mitchell, and Mallory E. SoRelle sought to identify how participants define inclusive teaching and what practices they implement in their own courses. One of the results of this work is a comprehensive resource that… Read more »
Teaching is a Radical Act of Hope
In his recent book, Historian Kevin Gannon, claims that to teach well is a radical act based in hope. It is radical in the aim of fundamental, root-level transformation and hopeful in that it imagines a better future for students because of this transformation. In describing his pedagogy of radical hope, he lays a foundation… Read more »
The Grand Challenges of Teaching & Learning
Recently, I had the chance to talk with Lauren Scharff (Director for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Psychology at the United States Air Force Academy) about her work with the ISSOTL Advocacy committee to identify the grand challenges of teaching and learning. I am pleased to share a synthesis of that… Read more »
Reflecting on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Each year we tackle one major project to improve the SoTL program at IUB. This year, we’ve been working to compile the history of the SoTL in an effort to tell the program’s story. Through this work, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing key pioneers in the field and hearing their lived experiences. I’ve holistically… Read more »
Why Can’t College Students Write?
As a college English teacher with over twenty years of experience, John Warner is often asked why recent graduates can’t write. Warner typically responds, “They’re doing exactly what we’ve trained them to do; that’s the problem” (2018, p. 2). As the subtitle to Warner’s Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities… Read more »