Kudos to Melanie Rathburn for her paper on mitigating Math and Science Anxiety in a General Education Course
Rathburn, Melanie K. (2015) “Building Connections Through Contextualized Learning in an Undergraduate Course on Scientific and Mathematical Literacy,” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 11.
Available at: http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol9/iss1/11
heads up! – teaching and learning events in May
It is going to be a busy spring if you are interesting in talking about teaching and learning in Calgary:
Campus Alberta Writing Colloquium, Friday April 10
The organizers of the twelfth CAWS colloquium, to be hosted at Mount Royal University, are pleased to invite proposals. Proposals for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of research, teaching, and administration in Writing Studies and Rhetoric will all be warmly considered, but, given Mount Royal’s emphasis on teaching informed by scholarship, presentations on pedagogical topics are especially welcome.
CAWS Spring Colloquium 2015 CFP
3rd annual Conference on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, May 12-13
This conference offers an opportunity for faculty, students, academic librarians and staff at the University of Calgary and the wider academic community to share, critically examine and build on our collective knowledge of teaching and learning. Theme: Design for Learning: Fostering Deep Learning, Engagement and Critical Thinking.
http://ucalgary.ca/taylorinstitute/edu/conference
Towards Scholarly Teaching Spring Intensive, May 19-22
This four day intensive, offered by the Academic Development Centre at Mount Royal University, offers post secondary educators the opportunity to create strategies, develop ideas and rethink approaches to their own scholarly practice through participation in small group seminars.
http://2015.towardscholarlyteaching.ca
Publishing SoTL
Look what turned up in Janice Miller Young’s feedly feed: Kathleen McKinney has posted a great list of tips for disseminating SoTL work – everything from considerations of the research and writing process to the mechanics of writing for particular publications – including this one:
“7. SoTL is action, practioner, applied research. Spend time in the discussion section talking about how you have used the results and/or plan to use the results (specific changes and actions) to enhance student learning. Make application suggestions for readers. You would be amazed at how often this area is neglected in SoTL papers.”
Highly recommended!
And in other news – Nancy Chick forwarded this article from Teaching in Psychology – among other things the authors found “Thus, the citation patterns of authors’ teaching research are not distinguishable from their traditional discipline research.” Interesting when we consider evaluating scholarly work…
Tomcho, T. J., Foels, R., Walter, M. I., Yerkes, K., Brady, B., Erdman, M., … & Manry, A. (2014). Outside the Classroom and Beyond Psychology A Citation Analysis of the Scientific Influence of Teaching Activities. Teaching of Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/0098628314562661.
Teaching and Learning Exchange – presentations for Winter 2015
Mark your calendars! We hope you can join us for the following presentations of recent and ongoing SoTL projects:
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Teacher Candidates’ Learning Through Theory-and-Practice Integration
Gladys Sterenberg (Department of Education and Schooling)
Kevin O’Connor (Department of Education and Schooling)
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Noon – 1 p.m.
Room Y324
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Mobile or Traditional? Student Value Placement on Learning Technologies
Brett McCollum (Department of Chemistry)
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Room Y324
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Undergraduate Research in Classroom Contexts: A Collaborative SoTL Project
Karen Manarin (Departments of English and General Education)
Miriam Carey (Academic Development Centre)
April McGrath (Department of Psychology)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Room Y324
2015 Nexen Scholars
Looking forward to our first meeting of the 2015 Nexen Scholars cohort today!!
This year’s cohort and their projects:
Depicting Suffering: The Student Experience, Pat Kostouros, Child Studies and Social Work
Concepts over Calculations; Context over Computations: Incorporating Case Studies in Business Statistics, Brad Quiring and Collette Lemieux, Bissett School of Business
Exploring Arts-Based Approaches to Developing Leadership in Senior Nursing Students, Joanna Szabo, Nursing
Developing Student Noticing with the Use of Recorded Speech Samples in the ESL Classroom, Sheri Rhodes, International Education