The CASTL Roundtable is a group of 10-15 people who have agreed to meet twice a month for the next two semesters to discuss issues in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Some issues that were raised: writing across the curriculum, e-portfolios, assessment of all flavors, syllabus development, active learning techniques, etc. Each person took one of the topics on the list we generated at the first meeting. At each meeting, one of us gives a short presentation on our topic. We then discuss the topic as it applies to us and our classrooms. This is time to share what has and has not worked, and to give mutual support. Attached are the initial proposal to the Carnegie Foundation and our schedule for meeting.
Current participants are:
Bob Bence, Political Science
Mike Birch, English/Communications
Sue Birns, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Mike Ganger, Biology
Rob Harris, Chemistry
Paul LeSage, English/Communications
Emily Maher, Physics
Nancy Ovitsky, Business Administration and Economics
Graziana Ramsden, Modern Languages
Matt Silliman, Philosophy
Adrienne Wootters, Physics
To learn more about the CASTL Leadership project go to the Carnegie Foundation CASTL site.
-Adrienne Wootters
CASTL Proposal
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Maria Bartini // Nov 9, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Thanks for sharing this program here, Adrienne. I think these collegial sharing opportunities are great for our professional development and just for building community. I enjoy these kinds of experiences, so if you need volunteers for the next round of these roundtables, you can sign me up!
2 admin // Nov 11, 2006 at 10:17 am
The blogger at Edwired has begun writing about Internationalizing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History I wonder if there might be interdisciplary theories that might apply here?
3 Adrienne Wootters // Nov 12, 2006 at 8:34 pm
In fact, Nancy Ovitsky, Sue Birns and I just came back from the very conference this person is referring to. The conference was the annual meeting of the International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) in Washington, D.C. Check out the conference webpage to see what it was all about.
There were tons of talks and discussions on integrative learning. I will post more about what we found at the conference in a future post.
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