Learning and Teaching Center (Old)

Tuesday, May 25

Collaborative Research with Students in the Humanities:

From the Classroom to French Review

and The Country Wife

Scott Carpenter, Professor of French

and his students, Hannah Callaway, Mei Chin, and Allison Spies

Ruth Weiner, Professor of Theather Arts

and her students, David Macauley and Laura Owen

A videotape of this presentation is available from the LTC, Willis 207.

A summary is provided here.

Tuesday, May 18:

Ten Ways to Turn Your Class into Community without Losing Time or Content:

Student perspectives on building community at Carleton

Are our classrooms and courses intellectual communities or individual students and a faculty member who just appear three times a week at the same time and place around a specific subject? How would we recognize an intellectual community forming in our course if it happened? What do students think about intellectual community in their Carleton classes?

Drew Dara-Abrams, ‘05

Hans Peterson, ’05, student panel coordinator and moderator

Alisa Sanchez, 06

Tiffany Tyler, 05

Dustin Yager, 06

Thursday, May 13: The (Other) Matrix:

How faculty can work less if departments communicate more

Nathan Grawe, Assistant Professor of Economics

Kirk Jeffrey, Professor of History

Serena Zabin, Assistant Professor of History

and other members of the history and economics departments

Gould Library Athenaeum

It's 10 a.m. - do you know what your colleagues are doing? Might it help your teaching if you did know? Members of the history and economics department talked about how department-wide discussions of goals and curricula in the light of basic literacies (such as writing, oral communication and information literacy) have changed what they do. Hear what the departments and individual faculty members gained, what the consequences (intended and unintended) and spillover benefits were, and what obstacles they encountered. Videotape or DVD of this presentation is available from the LTC, Willis 207.

Making Service Learning Work at Carleton

Thursday, May 6, 4:30-6:00 pm

LTC/Mellon: Faculty Grant Writing Workshop:

Tips for Writing NSF Grants

Do you wonder how to get started on a grant application and what major points should be considered? Do you have a good idea for a project, but wonder if it "fits" in any NSF program? Would you like to understand more about how grants are reviewed and what role program officers play at the National Science Foundation? Or are you simply interested in learning more about federal funding for projects in natural science, social science and education? If so, review this presentation.

Workshop facilitators were:

Hal Arkes ’67, Professor of Psychology and Interim Director of the Center for Health Outcomes, Policy and Evaluation Studies (HOPES), Ohio State University; former program officer, NSF Program in Decision, Risk, Management Science, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

Susan Singer, Professor of Biology; former National Science Foundation Program Director, Developmental Mechanisms, Biology Directorate.

Tuesday, April 27

Faculty Learning from Each Other--in Class

Have you ever wanted to sit in on a colleague's class to learn more about relativity, or Japanese art, or Russian language? Have you wondered how colleagues in other departments use various teaching methods? Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in someone else's classroom watching how students respond to an instructor and to each other? Do you just want to know more about what happens at Carleton?

In Tuesday's LTC panel, we heard from a faculty member (Justin London) who has had faculty from other departments take his classes; from a student (Ben Irwin) who has experienced faculty members both as instructors and fellow students; and from a faculty member (Bill Titus) who recently sat in on another class that included a field trip.

Justin London, Professor of Music

Bill Titus, Professor of Physics

Ben Irwin, Class of 2004

and other Carleton faculty members and students

Videotape available from the LTC, Willis 207.

Related article: The Benefits of Eavesdropping

Tuesday, April 20

Bush Visiting Writing Scholar: Nancy Sommers

The Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing

Nancy Sommers, Sosland Professor of Expository Writing

Harvard University

Tuesday, April 13

Faculty Scholarship Forum: Gravity Waves

Nelson Christensen, Associate Professor of Physics

A videotape of this presentation is available from the LTC, Willis 207.

Thursday, April 8:

Piercing the “Carleton Bubble:”

Responding to world events in the classroom

moderated by Chaplain Carolyn Fure-Slocum

with faculty panelists Mike Hemesath, Professor of Economics; Lance McCready, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies; Al Montero, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Robert Tisdale, Garbisch Professor of English and the Liberal Arts.

A videotape of this presentation is available through the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Willis 207.

• Friday, February 27, 7:30-9:30 pm, poster presentations

The Science Education Resource Center (SERC, Carleton) hosted a workshop titled "Teaching Geoscience with Visualization," February 26-28. Conference participants included learning scientists who study how students perceive and learn from visualizations and creators of visualization tools as well as geoscientists who are leaders in using visualizations in their classrooms. They met to discuss effective use of images, animations, and models.Carleton faculty were invited to view poster presentations and demonstrations by workshop participants Friday, February 27, 7:30 to 9:30 pm, in the Alumni Guest House Meeting Room and Library.

Mary Savina, Coordinator, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching

SERC Visiting Fellow

Thursday, February 26

Spatial Thinking:

Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University