Learning and Teaching Center (Old)

The LTC sponsors conversations, encourages reflection, and offers a venue for classroom innovations that bear on the challenges and opportunities of education at a distinctive liberal arts college. The goal of the LTC is to join student insights with faculty perspectives in an ongoing discussion about the reliable and the elusive elements that foster and constrain learning. Our hope is that this mutual conversation will help our community to understand better the many kinds of effective teaching and the many styles of fruitful learning. Both the coordinator and the assistant to the coordinator of the LTC are available to faculty and students for a wide variety of services.

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What's new at the LTC?

The Working Poor, Invisible in America--continued discussion:
Come continue the conversation about _The Working Poor: Invisible in America_ with other faculty and staff on Monday, September 19, 4:30-6:00 pm, Headley House, 815 East. Second Street. No advance reservation needed. Copies of the book are available in the Carleton bookstore.

Human Subjects Protection:
What Faculty (and Students) Need to Know Before the Research Starts

Thursday, September 22: George (Curt) Pospisil, formerly of Education Division of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Increasingly, Carleton students and faculty are using classrooms as research sites for scholarship of teaching and learning with the students and others as research subjects. With the help of our own Institutional Research Board, Pospisil will help us negotiate the ethical and procedural terrain of these activities. Pospisil is now privately consulting in the area of human subjects research. He helped create the web-based “Human Subjects Protection Education Program” for the use of federal grantees working with human subjects.

Co-sponsored by Institutional Research Board (IRB), Program in Ethical Reflection at Carleton (PERC), and the Dean of the College Office

Alumni Guest House meeting room, noon-1:30 pm
Lunch provided for 50

Looking ahead:

Monday, September 26: Pedagogical discussion series: Problem-Solving
A group of faculty members met through the summer to explore how best to help students learn problem-solving skills. Come find out what we learned. Monday, September 26, 4:30-6:00 pm, Headley House, 815 East. Second Street. No advance reservation needed. Trish Ferrett and Mary Savina, facilitators.

Tuesday, September 27: Bush Visiting Writing Scholar
Ed White, Visiting Professor of English, University of Arizona
Making Reflection an Essential Component in Portfolio Assessment
Co-sponsored by The College Writing Program
Copies of reading available in the LTC, Willis 207
Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch provided for 50

Hot Topics @Noon: Curriculum, Scholarship, Safe Spaces

Fall 2005 events from the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching (LTC) focus on a number of hot topics: curricular issues such as reflective writing, classroom publishing, and quantitative literacy; assessment and human subjects protection; and the challenge of making classrooms simultaneously psychically “safe” and intellectually dangerous—a topic that continues last year’s discussions of classroom experiences with stereotypes and racially charged language. Al Montero, recently back from leading the Maastricht program, fills us in on developments in the European Union. Sam Patterson and Bill Titus report on what happened last year when they taught the whole of each other’s courses. Book discussions continue on the common reading The Working Poor and on Gender in Academia, and two pedagogical workshops will explore issues of problem-solving and academic honesty.

Spring 2005 Theme: Difference, Diversity and Carleton’s Academics
The spring term 2005 LTC events focus on issues of faculty and student diversity, on continuing discussions of the Carleton curriculum, and on new developments in information and instructional technology. The LTC will co-sponsor two reading groups, one centered on Jared Diamond’s recent book Collapse, and the other around a series of reading about women in academia. We also sponsor another in the Faculty Scholarship Forum series and a collaborative presentation with the Carleton Writing Program.

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book discussion groups

Spring 2005 Poster of LTC presentations

DIG message about 2005-06 theme

LTC Presentations

Winter 2005 Poster of LTC Presentations

Carleton's Curriculum Review page

Curriculum Review Presentations

Building Intellectual Community through Collaboration
workshop 1: Week of 15-19 August (probably in Sayles-Hill)
workshop 2: Week of 22-26 August (probably in Sayles-Hill)

Information Literacy and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
proposals due March 31, 2005; workshop July 31-August 2, 2005

Innovations in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
at the Liberal Arts Colleges April 1-3, 2005

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Featured reading from the LTC:

• Meeting the Office Hour Challenge, an article in The National Teaching and Learning Forum. Access it electronically or read it in the LTC.
• AAC&U’s Peer Review has an issue dedicated to Quantitative Literacy (Summer, 2004) and Advancing the Conversation Between Graduate and Undergraduate Education (Spring 2004). See them in the LTC or on the AAC&U website.
• Other electronic journals available to faculty from the LTC website

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check our EVENTS page for more about future presentations

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Reflections on Learning as Teachers, edited by Susan Singer and Carol Rutz, brings together 20 essays by Carleton faculty

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More on faculty learning from each other:

• The Benefits of Eavesdropping
• The Top Ten Things New Faculty Would Like to Hear

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The Collaboration home page: www.collab.org
LTC past presentations:

• Creating Community at Carleton, part 2: Faculty, Students, & Staff
• Creating Community at Carleton, part 1: Faculty and Student Perspectives

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• What’s on your mind?
  Co-sponsored by the LTC, the Writing Program and Liz Ciner, Associate Dean of the College, this is a series of short, informal discussions of practical teaching and advising issues. So far we've discussed mid-term evaluations and advising sophomores. Send your suggestions for further topics to Mary Savina, or Liz Ciner, or Carol Rutz.
• Carleton Faculty have been looking at the state of Quantitative Literacy at Carleton. Here is what some other schools are doing.
• "Multiple Intelligences: Multitalented students--What do we need to know?" was the theme for our winter term presentations. Look here for what was planned.
• Student Panel on Multiple Intelligences: Opening remarks by Drew Dara-Abrams, panel organizer for the February 17 panel, are now available.
• "Cutting Across: The Curriculum, the Basic Literacies, and the Big Ideas" was the theme for our fall 2003 presentations. Look here for what was planned.
• LTC Library Database. The entire contents of the LTC Library can now be browsed from any EndNote-equipped computer on campus.
• Copyright Law and Fair Use. Here is some information about how copyright law and fair use apply to teachers, from a recent LTC Event
• Student Observer Program. Have you tried the LTC's Student Observer Program yet? Click here for information about the program.