Teaching and Learning Partners
Would you like to
- Experience more collegiality?
- Learn new teaching methods?
- Get feedback in a nonthreatening way?
- Give students a model of "lifelong learning"?
Become a Teaching and Learning Partner!
Purpose: To encourage faculty members to collaborate and innovate in their classrooms, to share classroom practices, and to reflect on their teaching.
Description: Each Teaching/Learning Partner will work to improve a particular course, with the help of their partner. Partners will visit each other's classrooms several times and review course documents. Partners can implement the same new strategy in their classrooms or they could help each other implement different strategies.
Open to: All faculty (full and part time) at IU South Bend. Partners may be in the same or different disciplines.
Application: Potential partners will submit a single application (1 to 3 pages) that describes their collaboration plans. Applications should include:
- Name, position, and department of each partner
- A description of the two courses that will be targeted
- A description of the teaching strategies that will be targeted for each class, and the potential impact on student learning
- A description of planned activities (e.g. meetings, classroom observations)
A brief report (2-4 pages) will be requested at the end of the semester.
UCET Support for Partners:
- Assistance in locating a partner
- Assistance in locating information on teaching strategies
- Mid-semester meeting to discuss progress
- End of semester retreat to share results
- Next semester opportunity to present results to the campus
