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Campus Conversations
Georgia State University has taken the initial steps to
participate in the nationwide Campus Conversations on Teaching
Program sponsored by the Carnegie Teaching Academy. This innovative
program, which is endorsed by the American Association for
Higher Education, is designed to encourage and engage faculty
members in integrating local issues of teaching and learning
into a campus-wide definition and ultimately with a national
definition. The Carnegie Teaching Academy draft definition
is: The scholarship of teaching is problem posing about an
issue of teaching or learning, study of the problem through
methods appropriate to disciplinary epistemologies, application
of results to practice, communication of results, self-reflection,
and peer review.
At Georgia State University the Campus Conversations Program
will be facilitated by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
The program has received the endorsement and support of the
University's Provost, Associate Provost for Academic Services,
and Council of Deans. Phase 1 activities will occur across
several levels. The campus conversations will include discussions
with the Associates of the Center for Teaching and Learning
(see the article which follows). The Associates are faculty
members who have been selected by each department because
of their work in and interest related to issues of teaching
and learning.
In addition to promoting conversations about the scholarship
of teaching, the Advisory Committee of the Center has committed
the 1999-2000 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grant program
to support the collaborative efforts of departments and program
units in developing initiatives related to the Campus Conversations
Program. For more details, click
here or see the Implementation
Plans
Campus Conversations Part 1
Campus Conversations Part 2
Resources
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