Workshop Descriptions
Thursday, June 5th Workshops
Framing the Question: Forming our Focus (Todd D. Whitmore, Theology, University of Notre Dame and Tracy Russo, Communication, University of Kansas)
- SoTL projects are by their nature interdisciplinary, requiring the investigator to link her or her home discipline to the panoply of disciplines used in pedagogy. This interdisciplinarity makes focusing the project exceedingly difficult. This session will help you learn how to talk across disciplines as a means to focus your project.
Anatomy of a Question: Refining the Burning Question (Amy Haddad, Health Sciences, Creighton University and Renee Michael, Psychology, Rockhurst University)
- Carnegie Scholars Amy Haddad and Renee Michael will each share the outline of their SoTL project with a focus on forming the question for study. Through their projects, they will illustrate how identifying a general area of study provides the foundation for the formation of specific questions related to student learning.
Standards for Evaluating SoTL Work in Tenure and Promotion Cases (Julie Lochbaum, Director; Center for Teaching and Learning, Truman State University)
- Beyond applying the Glassick, Maeroff and Huber standards for evaluating faculty scholarship, this session will examine a range of factors that characterize maturing SoTL work.
Friday, June 6th Workshops
Moving SoTL Projects Forward: Methodologies and Literature Searches (Mary Burman, Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, University of Wyoming)
- While SoTL work typically is discipline-based, multiple sources of literature (and other resources) are available, both within discipline and beyond. Moreover, a variety of qualitative and quantitative approaches can be used in SoTL work. This session will help participants identify potential sources of literature and understand common methodological approaches relevant for their SoTL work.
Literature Reviews: Disciplinary and Multidisciplinary Approaches (Roberto Corrada, Law, University of Denver)
- Emphasizing the importance of different disciplinary styles in SoTL work, this workshop will focus on how to center SoTL work within particular disciplines without ignoring cricital ideas and approaches in other fields, and particularly the field of education. Using Mary Taylor Huber's book "Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" as a beginning point, former Carnegie Scholar Roberto Corrada will outline his own experience in wading through other fields in order to pursue his SoTL inquiries. Expect to share.
Ethics of Inquiry: Navigating the Institutional Review Process (Kim Case, Ph.D., Teaching-Learning Enhancement Center Co-Director, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Beth Hentges, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Judy Lundberg, Director of Grants, Truman State University; and Patsy Nowatzke, IRB Director, Creighton University)
- During this session, panelists will address ethical issues and the human subjects internal review process for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Previous CASTL Institute Scholars will share their experiences with internal review boards and various avenues for protecting student confidentiality, avoiding coercion, etc. Human subjects committee members will discuss the ethical concerns unique to SoTL projects and provide examples of best practices.
Strengths Finder: Teaching to Your Strengths (Mark Pogue, Vice President, Higher Education Division; Gallup Organization and Rosanne Liesveld, Managing Partner; Gallup Consulting)
- This session is designed to help you explore your unique teaching style and the strengths you posses to create an effective learning environment for your students. You'll have the opportunity to participate in the Gallup StrenghtsFinder assessment, and explore tools to help you create an action plan based on your individual strengths profile. This session will affirm what you've always known about your teaching style and help you strategize on ways to use your strengths more effectively in reaching your students.
Saturday, June 6th Workshop
Qualitative Approaches to SoTL Research (Anita Salem, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Rockhurst University)
- Making Student Thinking Visible: A Close Reading of Online Conversations. The difficulty that many students face is their inability to apply methods and concepts used in practiced scenarios to new situations. This workshop will focus on the use of qualitative research methods to demonstrate how a careful reading of online problem-solving sessions can be used to formulate a simple but useful characterization of students' approaches to unpracticed problems.