Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning

Agenda and Resources

Welcome New Fellows!

The first meeting of the 2009-10 SoTL Fellows is scheduled for Thursday, September 1, at 6:00 p.m., in KL 311. Dinner will be served. The purpose of the meeting is to stimulate interaction among the Teaching Associates and SoTL Fellows, and to lay a solid foundation for executing this year's projects. To this end, we will discuss the projects in general, and then break up into peer groups to delve into them in greater detail. An introductory PowerPoint presentation, developed for the first meeting by Margaret Waterman, can be accessed by clicking here.

All 2009-10 meetings will be held on Tuesday nights, and dinner will be provided. The meeting calendar for the semester is as follows:

Date	Time	Location	Agenda
September 1	6:00-8:00 p.m.	Kent Library 311	Introductions, updates, group work on clarifying questions and hot to answer them
September 22	6:00-8:00 p.m.	Kent Library 311	Refining variables, developing data gathering tools
October 20	6:00-8:00 p.m.	Kent Library 311	Refining data gathering tools, pilot studies
November 17	6:00-8:00 p.m.	Kent Library 311	Quantitative and Qualitative data analysis
February 16	6:00-8:00 p.m.	Kent Library 311	Updates, requirements for final reports distributed, peer group work
March 30	6:00-8:00 p.m.	Kent Library 311	Review drafts of presentations, discuss finding, further work, publishing
April 20	6:00-8:00 p.m.	Kent Library 311	New SoTL Fellows Orientation Meeting
May 4	5:00-9:00 p.m.	Glenn Auditorium, Dempster Hall	FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS. Chairs, Deans, prior and new fellows invited for this dinner symposium
*June 30*	*Midnight*	*DropBox*	*Final written reports due*

Resources for beginning your project

Margaret Waterman has made a number of files relevant to beginning your projects available through this page. Her introductory PowerPoint presentation can be accessed by clicking here. She also has provided a collection of supplemental files pertaining to the execution of an effective teaching, learning, and research project. Document 1 pertains to artifacts as data sources; Document 2 pertains to interviews; Document 3 pertains to observation, and Document 4 pertains to and surveys. These documents may be useful throughout the course of your project, but especially now, at the early stages, and in preparation for our second SoTL meeting.

Information for concluding your project

The Spring semester finds the SoTL Fellows working increasingly independently, gathering, coding, and interpreting data, and working towards the completion of their projects. We still will meet monthly to help facilitate this process. Current SoTL Fellows should note that there will be a guided peer review meeting in April. At this meeting, Fellows will work in small groups to discuss the final stages of their projects, what their data reveal, and various perspectives on preparing their oral and written final reports. Each Fellow will conduct a PowerPoint-assisted presentation of his or her work in early May, with a final report due via DropBox on June 30, 2010. Instructions and guidelines for the May presentation are located at the following site: SoTL Project Presentation Evaluation Form. All final projects must be submitted via DropBox no later than June 30, 2010.

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