Teaching Effectiveness

Lycoming College Teaching Effectiveness Program and Committee

Holly Bendorf and student Sarah Hirst

2000 Junior Faculty Teaching Award recipient Holly Bendorf and student Sarah Hirst discuss a spectroscopy problem together

Mission:

The Teaching Effectiveness Program at Lycoming College is designed to support and implement the following objectives:

  1. Provide a collaborative and supportive environment for faculty interested in promoting quality teaching in undergraduate classrooms. This recognizes diversity in and acceptance of various teaching styles, and acknowledges that a supportive environment is one in which faculty are comfortable with experimentation in terms of teaching methods and are free to share failures as well as successes.

  2. Develop and implement a series of formal teaching initiatives such as workshops on campus led by nationally recognized educators; attendance and presentations by Lycoming faculty at nationally recognized conferences on teaching; informal workshops and gatherings on campus in which Lycoming faculty share teaching initiatives; and the sharing of information about teaching through channels such as a newsletter, a Web site, a collection of teaching literature, etc.

Spring 2011 Teaching Effectiveness Schedule

  • Tuesday, Feb. 15 - To promote participation in the Lilly Conferences and Pennsylvania Summer Academy, features Alison Gregory, Mary Morrison, and Todd Preston, who will speak on their experiences at the DC Lilly Conference, and Charles Mahler, who will speak on his experience at the Summer Academy.
  • Wednesday, February 23 - Moodle Exchange (presented by ITS, cosponsored by TE)
  • Thursday, February 24 - "Distressed, Deteriorating and/or perhaps Dangerous Students", with Stephanie Fortin, Dan Miller, Donn Troutman, and Townsend Velkoff
  • Thursday, March 10 - Clickers in the Classroom, with Elyshia Aseltine and Alison Gregory (in the Snowden Library Teaching Lab)
  • Thursday, April 14 - Teaching Award recipient speaks, with Cullen Chandler
  • Teaching Effectiveness Schedule for Previous Semesters

Unless otherwise noted, events will be from noon to 12:50 PM in the Schultz Room in the Wertz Student Center.

Other Teaching Effectiveness Links

Questions? Please contact Charles H. Mahler, Assistant Dean for Teaching Effectiveness