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Talking About Writing Across The Secondary And College Community, Michelle Cox, Phyllis Gimbel
Talking About Writing Across The Secondary And College Community, Michelle Cox, Phyllis Gimbel
Secondary Education and Professional Programs Faculty Publications
Many have commented that higher education is becoming increasingly fragmented, leading to the overspecialization of scholars, disciplinary discourses that are opaque to those outside the field, and lack of cross-pollination among disciplines (Kerr). WAC has long been seen as a movement that creates connections among disciplines. In fact, these connections are often created through the workshop, the quintessential WAC experience, as it “bring[s] faculty together around the same table”—bringing together people who may work at the same institution but, in practice, work worlds apart (Cox 317). More recently, this movement to bring people around the same table has come to …
Using Student Feedback To Fuel The Family Project, Susan Eliason
Using Student Feedback To Fuel The Family Project, Susan Eliason
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The author shares her desire to create with students more authentic assignments that enhance learning through the use of the project approach.
Refreshed & Humbled: Altered Assumptions About Power And Payoffs, Roben Torosyan
Refreshed & Humbled: Altered Assumptions About Power And Payoffs, Roben Torosyan
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The author starts with a focus on a long-term, shifting relationship with work-study students serving as students consultants in his class, then takes an outward turn as he describes how he included graduate student voices from around the country as he wrote an external grant to support partnerships between research and teaching intensive institutions.
Sharing Power To Promote Deeper Learning, Maura Rosenthal
Sharing Power To Promote Deeper Learning, Maura Rosenthal
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The author explores her partnership with an entire class during the semester to solve a problem in the book club learning activities she had planned. She addresses her experience of sharing power with students and how doing so alleviated the “tug-o-war” she had previously experienced between pulling students towards learning course content and their resistance.
Peer Assisted Learning: Unexpected Benefits For All Stakeholders - Students, Peer Leaders & Faculty, Marybeth Tobin, Caitlin Golden
Peer Assisted Learning: Unexpected Benefits For All Stakeholders - Students, Peer Leaders & Faculty, Marybeth Tobin, Caitlin Golden
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The authors share their experience in co-leading a peer-leader program and the unexpected benefits that inure to students, faculty and especially, peer leaders. They share the value of peer leader feedback in their efforts to continually improve the program and in informing their own pedagogy in an entry-level financial accounting course.
Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships At Bridgewater State University, Lee Torda, Karen Pagnano Richardson
Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships At Bridgewater State University, Lee Torda, Karen Pagnano Richardson
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The introduction frames the essays included in this issue as developing student-faculty partnerships with a range of collaborative relationships. The first three essays explore partnerships that are program-based partnerships. The next four essays explore various kinds of student-faculty partnerships that unfold within classroom-focused experiences. In the final section, three essays that focus on partnerships beyond the boundaries of the classroom and the campus are shared. All ten essays contribute to chronicling multiple versions of the development of student-faculty partnerships at Bridgewater State University.
Chaos In The Promiseland: Mentorship As Partnership In Undergraduate Research, Lee Torda, Marjorie Howe, Kirsten Ridlen
Chaos In The Promiseland: Mentorship As Partnership In Undergraduate Research, Lee Torda, Marjorie Howe, Kirsten Ridlen
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The authors write about their experience co-creating a writing and travel experience in Israel. They explore how they all negotiated respective expertise and inexperience while traveling, reading, and writing in a study abroad/undergraduate research opportunity.
Learning To Soar: Partnering With Underrepresented Students In Research, Jennifer Manak, Jenny Olin Shanahan
Learning To Soar: Partnering With Underrepresented Students In Research, Jennifer Manak, Jenny Olin Shanahan
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The authors examine the mentor relationships that developed within the SOAR (Student Opportunities as Apprentice Researchers) program. The program matches underrepresented students with faculty in research partnerships that facilitate faculty scholarship and improve the retention and success of students from underserved groups.
Students As Partners With Faculty In A Teacher Education Program, Karen Pagnano Richardson, Deborah Sheehy, Misti Neutzling
Students As Partners With Faculty In A Teacher Education Program, Karen Pagnano Richardson, Deborah Sheehy, Misti Neutzling
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The authors share their experiences of working with student partners within a Physical Education Teacher Education Program. Through partnership they more deeply understand how their role as professor was a barrier to open and honest student-faculty communication.
Co-Creating Equity And Justice: Student And Employee Partnerships For Racial Justice, Judith Willison, Laura Boutwell, Mark Conrad, Sabrina Gentlewarrior, Richardson Pierre-Louis, Colleen Rua, Jeff Saint Dic
Co-Creating Equity And Justice: Student And Employee Partnerships For Racial Justice, Judith Willison, Laura Boutwell, Mark Conrad, Sabrina Gentlewarrior, Richardson Pierre-Louis, Colleen Rua, Jeff Saint Dic
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The faculty/staff authors and current Bridgewater State University Undergraduate students: Jessie Barbosa, Ye Chen, Ruby Lila De La Rosa, Marvin Ezhan, Danielle Marie Galstian, Frank Iaquinta, Tashima Point du jour, Brian Owusu, Marina Smoske, Jovan Taylor; Bridgewater State University Alumni, Class of 2015: James Gouzias, Kasheida Hector, Julian Millan, Michael Molyneaux, Jamaal Rodney-Bonnette, share reflections on partnerships between campus staff, faculty and students to put on three specific social justice events designed to initiate discussion and raise awareness about racial justice.
Learner Empowerment: A Collaborative Approach To Peer-Assisted Learning In Global Languages, Minae Savas, Dorie Aucoin, Fernanda Ferreira
Learner Empowerment: A Collaborative Approach To Peer-Assisted Learning In Global Languages, Minae Savas, Dorie Aucoin, Fernanda Ferreira
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The authors share the trajectory of the Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program in the Foreign Languages Department, which has undertaken a series of projects to build an encouraging and non-judgmental learning environment, specifically in language learning, and to incorporate a partnership between learners, tutors, supervisors and professors.
Creating A Learning Environment With Shared Responsibility For Assessment, Anne E. Doyle
Creating A Learning Environment With Shared Responsibility For Assessment, Anne E. Doyle
Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)
The author focuses on her work with her Introduction to Linguistics course. She shares her journey as she discovered that her goals were best served when she maximized the possibilities in her classes for partnership through inviting discussion about the focus and purposes of key assessment in the course.