Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that serves as a forum for the reflective work of college faculty and students working together to explore and enact effective classroom practice.
Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education is premised on the centrality to successful pedagogy of dialogue and collaboration — among faculty and between faculty and students — in explorations and revisions of approaches to teaching and learning in higher education. The journal has several aims:
· To include student voices in analyses and revisions of educational practice at the post-secondary level
· To offer windows into the development of pedagogical insights that faculty and students gain when they collaborate on explorations of classroom practice and systematically reflect on that collaboration
· To create forums for dialogue between faculty and students whose work is featured in this journal and others engaged in similar work at other colleges and universities.
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IN THIS ISSUE
I. From The Advisory Board, in which Carmen Werder, Director of the Teaching-Learning Academy & Writing Instruction Support and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Communication at Western Washington University, and Shanyese Trujillo, an undergraduate at Western Washington University, reflect on “The Heart and Art of Collegial Conversations.”
II. Introduction, in which Alison Cook-Sather, Editor, and Coordinator of the The Andrew W. Mellon Teaching and Learning Institute, argues for a revision of traditional teacher-student relationships and pedagogical responsibilities and in which Guest Student Editor Anna Chiles describes her experience of working in the TLI.
III. A Semester In the Life, the final installment of the blog kept by Theresa Tensuan, Assistant Professor of English, over the course of a semester in which she wrote about the joys and challenges of her exploration into how to create a more culturally responsive classroom.
IV. Radical Equality: A Dialogue on Building a Partnership — and a Program — Through a Cross-campus Collaboration, in which Meredith Goldsmith, Associate Professor of English at Ursinus College, and Nicole Gervasio, a 2009 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, describe the process through which they built their working relationship and how they used their partnership not only to reflect on one of Goldsmith’s courses but also to build a student consulting program at Ursinus.
V. Let’s Scrum: How Scrum Methodology Encourages Students to View Themselves as Collaborators, in which Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Assistant Professor of English at Elon University, and three Elon undergraduates, Michelle Eichel, Sarah Talbott, and Kasey Thornton, explore an adapted version of Scrum project management methodology — a framework of group meetings and process questions used to organize collaborative teamwork and borrowed from the software development world.
VI. From the Student Perspective, in which Margaret A. Powers, a 2010 Bryn Mawr College Graduate who worked as a student consultant throughout her time as an undergraduate, offers “Reflections on Seven Core Principles of Facilitating Faculty-Student Partnerships within an Educational Initiative.”
VII. Teaching and Learning Insights, in which faculty members and student consultants define ‘confidence’, reflect on the role of confidence in teaching and learning, and articulate how their experiences through the Teaching and Learning Institute help to build confidence.
Call for Submissions
Our goal is to have Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education evolve to represent a wide range of faculty and student reflections on teaching and learning in higher education. We seek submissions that:
· illustrate how faculty and students work together to improve classroom practice
· present pedagogical insights gained through collaborations between and among faculty and students
· explore the challenges and possibilities of such collaborations
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Prof. Susan Riemer Sacks on 27 Sep 2010 at 12:49 pm #
Looks terrific! What a wonderful idea that you followed through on!
All the best, Sue Sacks
Anna Richert on 25 May 2011 at 5:43 pm #
So good to have a way to document this important work. Congratulations!!, Anna Richert