Transcript The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning A. Dale Whittaker Associate Dean for Academic Programs.

The Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning
A. Dale Whittaker
Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Teaching/Learning Indicators:
Everyday Expectations for Everyone
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Quantity
Quality
Growth
Service
Scholarship
Quantity
• Indicator of departmental citizenship and
contribution to total teaching program
• Measures
– courses taught, weekly contact hours, student
contact hours
– Graduate students advised
Quality
• Indicator of excellence
• Measures
– Peer observation of teaching
– Peer evaluation of course content
– Student evaluations (instructor’s effectiveness,
course effectiveness)
– Awards
Growth
• Indicator of deliberate improvement of
teaching/learning
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Attendance at teaching workshops
Professional development within discipline
Requesting peer observation
Participation in Teaching Academy Mentor
program
Service
• Indicator of your contribution to enhancing
learning beyond your personal sphere
• Measures
– Curricula development for your professional
society
– Serving as a peer observer
– Curricula development in department or
interdisciplinary program
Scholarship (Handout)
• Defined by Boyer (1990); Glassick, Huber,
Maeroff (1997)
• Excellent working definition, but to be
interpreted by each academic department to
determine if the activity or work falls within
the priorities of the department, university,
and discipline
But will meeting those expectations
get me promoted?
• If you plan to be promoted based on
teaching and learning, you must
demonstrate scholarship in teaching and
learning.
• If you plan to be promoted based on
research or extension, your scholarship will
probably be disciplinary.
• Everyday Expectations remain the same.
Criteria for Scholarly Activity (7)
1. It requires a high level of discipline-related
expertise.
2. It is conducted in a scholarly manner with
clear goals, adequate preparation, and
appropriate methodology.
Criteria for Scholarly Activity
3. The work and its results are appropriately
ad effectively documented and
disseminated. This reporting should
include a reflective critique that addresses
the significance of the work, the process
that was used and what was learned.
4. It has significance beyond the individual
context.
Criteria for Scholarly Activity
5. It breaks new ground or is innovative.
6. It can be replicated or elaborated on.
7. The work – both process and product or
result – is reviewed and judged to be
meritorious and significant by a panel of
one’s peers.
Welcome to the College of
Agriculture
Our students are glad you are here…
A. Dale Whittaker
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