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. |
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2000 Junior Faculty Teaching Award recipient Holly Bendorf and student Sarah Hirst discuss a spectroscopy problem together |
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 2008 Teaching Effectiveness Schedule
Tues, Feb. 5 (lunch) - Student Writing Tutors panel presentation and discussion, with Shanna Wheeler of the Writing Center and Academic Resource Center (cosponsored with WAC)
Thur., March 6 (lunch) - Presentation by Senior Teaching Award recipient Gene Sprechini (the Junior Award recipient, Alka Gandhi, is now in Maryland and unable to attend)
Wed., March 19 (7 PM) - Evening with the Provost, with discussion of a reading on burnout and how to avoid it (in the College Archives).
Tues., March 25 (lunch) - presentation to promote interest in the Lilly Conferences and Pennsylvania Summer Academy, with Sue Beery, Todd Preston and Jeremy Ramsey
Thur., April 10 (lunch) - presentation by the Research Information and Competencies committee
Teaching Effectiveness Schedule for Previous Semesters
Other Teaching Effectiveness Links
Questions? Please contact Charles H. Mahler, Assistant Dean for Teaching Effectiveness |
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