Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
As I have noted in other places in this portfolio, I have come to believe that teaching must be done in a scholarly manner, conducted with the same rigor and dedication as any other research project. I also believe that it is the responsibility of teachers, just as it is of researchers, to communicate what they learn about teaching and learning to their colleagues. This part of my portfolio summarizes my beginning efforts to contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
During the redesign of CSC295D into CSC495D, I developed a template for students to use to capture the "how" and "why" of their design decisions. I call this template the "Decision Pattern," and used it extensively when I taught CSC495D. As a result, I wrote and presented a paper at SIGDOC '07 that described the pattern and its applications. The paper was very well received and generated several interesting conversations with my colleagues at the conference.
My work at the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning has included collaborations resulting in a poster presentation and workshop at the 2008 Lilly South Conference on College and University Teaching. The goal of the workshop was to explore the development of clearly stated competencies graduate student teachers should demonstrate based on their assigned level of teaching responsibility. The workshop was directly related to the refinement of the Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching (CoAT) program requirements and the development of several new workshops for the program. The poster described the CoAT program and its structure, incorporating the changes that were made for the 2007-08 year as well as some that have been recommended to the graduate school.
